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韻文學專題

本課程以研討中國文學史上居於主流地位的「韻文學」，即：唐詩、宋詞、元曲、戲曲以及說唱文學為主要內容。本課程藉由對歌謠、近體詩、說唱文學、古典戲劇的逐一解析，探討歷代韻文學的發展脈絡，讓學生進而能從事專題研究。

Subjects:: Chinese Literature
Keywords:: Chinese poetry Chinese literature Qu (Chinese literature) Ci (Chinese poetry)
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

This collection of Qing Daoist texts will contribute to the study of history of Daoism in the Qing Dynasty. Daoist scholars rarely examine the history of Qing Daoism mainly due to the deficiency of primary sources. Some researchers even mistakenly conclude that the period from Qing to the Republic is the time of declination of Daoism. As it is known, although each of the major empire compiled the Daoist Canon, there is no such project from the Qing dynasty to the 20th century after the publication of Daoist Scriptures of the Great Ming (Da Ming Daozang Jing) under the reign of Ming Yingzong and the Scriptures in Supplement to the Daoist Canon of The Great Ming (Da Ming Xu Daozang Jing) in the 35th Wanli year of the late Ming.

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Taoist literature Chinese
Resource Type:: e-book

MOOC

紅樓夢

這門課是對中國小說經典《紅樓夢》的分析與詮釋，著重於認識讀者本身與經典間的關係，並從作者的時代背景與社會階層著手，重新剖析這部人所共愛、人各有所擁戴的經典之作。

Subjects:: Chinese Literature
Keywords:: Hong lou meng (Cao Xueqin) Cao Xueqin approximately 1717-1763
Resource Type:: MOOC

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漫畫中的文化大革命：廣州的諷刺宣傳畫 1966-1977

The collection “The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977” showcases the two hundred and sixteen original posters from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Library. The posters are divided into two groups: Red Guards’ posters dated between 1966-1967; and images produced against the Gang of Four dated between 1976-1977. The aim of this digital collection is to make these valuable visual sources available to the academic community, and to allow scholars to employ them for research and teaching.

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) Caricatures cartoons
Resource Type:: Image

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清華大學開源軟件鏡像站

本站由清华大学信息化技术中心支持创办，由清华大学 TUNA 协会运行维护。清华大学 TUNA 协会，全名清华大学学生网络与开源软件协会，是由清华大学热爱网络技术和开源软件的极客组成的学生技术社团。

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Computer software -- Development Open source software
Resource Type:: Others

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歷史管理

This course covers various chinese culture incidents and their implications.

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: History Management China
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明清文學與日本文學

訓練學生日本漢文訓讀法，並了解中國明清文學對日本文學的影響。

Subjects:: Japanese Language, Comparative Literature, and Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Qing Dynasty (China) Japanese literature Comparative literature -- Japanese Chinese Chinese literature -- Ming dynasty
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散文創作之細節的狩獵者

Tips for creative writing in Chinese.

Subjects:: Chinese Language
Keywords:: Chinese essays Chinese language -- Style -- Study teaching Chinese prose literature
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戲曲學

「戲曲學」是指以「戲曲」為研究對象的一門學問。所謂「戲曲」，現在的共識是指中國的傳統戲劇，包括宋元南曲戲文、金元北曲雜劇、明清傳奇、明清南雜劇、清代亂彈京劇，以及近代地方戲。

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Qu (Chinese literature)
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我的學思歷程

通識教育論壇「我的學思歷程」系列演講，自開始舉辦以來其宗旨為邀請在生命上有所成就的先進，分享他們精神提升的歷程，或是在各領域卓然有成之各界人士，透過講者對個人學思歷程之反省，提供學生寶貴的人生經驗與思…

Keywords:: Intellectual life Taiwan Intellectuals
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左傳選讀

本學期課程主題：子產卒仲尼出涕 ─ 讀《左傳》識子產。以《左傳》為主，間或引《論語》、《荀子》、《韓非子》、《呂氏春秋》等論子產治鄭。

Subjects:: Chinese Literature
Keywords:: Chinese literature Zuo zhuan (Zuoqiu Ming) Chinese classics
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宋詞之美

詞，原屬配合音樂而能歌唱的詩，是中國韻文中最婉麗動人的一種文體。詞之為體，委婉含蓄，最具女性陰柔之美，宜於表達幽隱深微的情思。詞人所代表的是一種細膩、敏感的生命型態，追憶往事，流連光景，對於男女相思之...

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Chinese poetry Ci (Chinese poetry) Chinese literature
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孟子思想的現代探索

本課程以教師講授及舉辦辯論會，引導學生進入孟子與中華文化的思想世界，與孟子「對話」，從《孟子》原典中汲取智慧的靈感，以作為在現代社會中立身處世的資糧。

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Philosophy Confucian Philosophy Chinese
Resource Type:: Courseware

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台北國立故宮博物院Open Data專區

國立故宮博物院為提升政府資料開放品質、促進故宮資料在教學、個人賞析及營利使用之傳播，特別自106年起更新下載專區之「文物圖像下載」及「精選圖像下載」，所有圖像民眾無需申請，不限用途，不用付費，可直接下載使用，相關規範均依「政府資料開放授權條款1.0版」辦理，歡迎各界多加利用。

Keywords:: Taiwan Art objects Chinese Art Chinese
Resource Type:: Others

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先秦儒家哲學

本課程將依序探討《論語》、《孟子》、《荀子》、《易傳》、《中庸》、《大學》六部經典，就原文澄清其主要哲學概念，並設定判準來重構先秦儒家哲學的體系。

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Philosophy Chinese Philosophy Confucian
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MOOC

中国哲学经典著作导读

本课分十个专题，分别介绍《周易》、孔子《论语》、老子《道德经》，《大学》与《中庸》，《庄子》，《孙子兵法》，《墨经》，《心经》，以及朱熹理学、王阳明《传习录》等著作和人物的思想。既有对儒释道经典的介绍，也有对理学、心学思想的阐释，以期以一种更广阔的视角看待中国传统哲学，让学生能够对中国传统哲学有一种全方位的认识。

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Philosophy Chinese Philosophical literature
Resource Type:: MOOC

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freeCodeCamp - Data Analysis with Python

In these comprehensive video courses, created by Santiago Basulto, you will learn the whole process of data analysis. You'll be reading data from multiple sources (CSV, SQL, Excel), process that data using NumPy and Pandas, and visualize it using Matplotlib and Seaborn, Additionally, we've included a thorough Jupyter Notebook course, and a quick Python reference to refresh your programming skills.

Course related:: AMA1600 Fundamentals of AI and Data Analytics and AMA1751 Linear Algebra
Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Computer programming Computer science Python (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: Others

MOOC

e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age

For three decades and longer we have heard educators and technologists making a case for the transformative power of technology in learning. However, despite the rhetoric, in many ways and at most institutional sites, education is still relatively untouched by technology. Even when technologies are introduced, the changes sometimes seem insignificant and the results seem disappointing. If the print textbook is replaced by an e-book, do the social relations of knowledge and learning necessarily change at all or for the better? If the pen-and-paper test is mechanized, does this change the nature of our assessment systems? Technology, in other words, need not necessarily bring significant change. Technology might not even represent a step forward in education. But what might be new? How can we use technologies to innovate in education? This course explores seven affordances of e-learning ecologies, which open up genuine possibilities for what we call New Learning – transformative, 21st century learning: 1. Ubiquitous Learning 2. Active Knowledge Making 3. Multimodal Meaning 4. Recursive Feedback 5. Collaborative Intelligence 6. Metacognition 7. Differentiated Learning These affordances, if recognized and harnessed, will prepare learners for success in a world that is increasingly dominated by digital information flows and tools for communication in the workplace, public spaces, and personal life. This course offers a wide variety of examples of learning technologies and technology implementations that, to varying degrees, demonstrate these affordances in action.

Keywords:: Web-based instruction Education Internet in education Computer-assisted instruction Education -- Computer network resources
Resource Type:: MOOC

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Zero-Energy Design: an approach to make your building sustainable

Reduction of energy consumption of buildings is an important step in the move towards a sustainable economy. How can buildings be made net zero energy, in different climates? This course introduces you to zero energy design. It will teach you a stepped approach to design a zero energy climate concept for existing buildings: homes, schools, offices, shops etc. It will demonstrate how an integrated approach, which takes into account both passive measures (such as thermal insulation and sun shading) and active measures (such as heat pumps and photovoltaic panels), can deliver the best results. It will do so by providing you with an overview of possible measures, and through reviewing several case studies of zero energy buildings in the Netherlands, with lessons for other climates as well. Thus, you will learn which measures are most suitable for individual buildings under local climate conditions. This course is for anyone interested in making buildings more energy efficient, who already possess asic technical knowledge.

Subjects:: Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering
Keywords:: Buildings -- Energy conservation Architecture energy conservation Buildings -- Energy consumption Buildings -- Environmental aspects
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Z Table use

Using of Z table

Course related:: HTM3205 Analysing and Interpreting Research
Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Mathematical statistics Statistics
Resource Type:: Video

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YouGlish

Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation. With more than 100M tracks, YouGlish gives you fast, unbiased answers about how English is spoken by real people and in context.

Course related:: ELC1013 English for University Studies and ELC1A08 Digital Literacies and Language
Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: English language -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Others

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Writing Academic Essays

This is an open course on writing academic essays in English. It starts with a lesson on the the different types of essays. Then you'll learn how to write introduction paragraphs, body paragraphs, and conclusion paragraphs.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study teaching (Higher) Academic writing
Resource Type:: Courseware

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World's Largest Batteries - (Pumped Storage)

The vast majority of our grid-scale storage of electricity uses this clever method. Electricity faces a fundamental problem that comes with pretty much any product that’s provided on-demand: our ability to generate large amounts of it doesn’t match up that closely with when we need it. The storage of electricity for later use, especially on a large scale, is quite challenging. That’s not to say that we don’t store energy at grid scale though, and there’s one type of storage that makes up the vast majority of our current capacity.

Subjects:: Environmental Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Energy storage Water-power Pumped storage power plants
Resource Type:: Video

MOOC

World of Wine: From Grape to Glass

Learn about the principles and practices of how grapes are grown and wine is made.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Vineyards Wine wine making
Resource Type:: MOOC

Presentation

Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management - Semantic business process validation

This video was recorded at 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Tenerife 2008. The degree of automation in the management of the business process space of single enterprises and whole value chains is still unsatisfying. A key source of problems are representational heterogeneities between the various perspectives and the various stages in the life-cycles of business processes. Typical examples are incompatible representations of the managerial vs. the IT perspective, or the gap between normative modeling for compliance purposes and process execution log data. As early as in the 1990s, researchers have evaluated the potential of using ontologies for improving business process management in the context of the TOVE project; however, the impact of that work remained beyond initial expectations. Since 2005, there is now a renewed and growing interest in exploiting ontologies, of varying expressivity and focus, for advancing the state of the art in business process management, in particular in ERP-centric IT landscapes. The term "Semantic Business Process Management" has been suggested for the described branch of research in an early 2005 paper, which is now frequently cited as the first description of the overall vision. A flagship activity in the field is the European research project "SUPER", with more than a dozen premier industrial and academic partners, among them SAP, IDS Scheer, and IBM. In the past two years, substantial advancement has been made in investigating the theoretical and practical branches of this vision. However, the interdisciplinary nature of the topic requires a tight collaboration of researcher from multiple fields of, namely the BPM, SOA, Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, and Economics communities. There is a clear need for an annual event at which those communities meet, debate, challenge each others approaches, and eventually align their research efforts. Due to the strong involvement of Semantic Web researchers in the field, ESWC is the ideal target venue for this event. In this workshop, we want to bring together experts from the relevant communities and help reach agreement on a roadmap for SBPM research. We aim at bundling experiences and prototypes from the successful application of Semantic Web technology to BPM in various industries, like automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical, and services domains. The particular focus is on deriving reusable best-practices from such experiences, and to yield convincing showcases of semantic technology.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Workflow -- Management
Resource Type:: Presentation

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Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management - Organization Structure Description for the Needs of Semantic Business Process Management

This video was recorded at 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Tenerife 2008. The degree of automation in the management of the business process space of single enterprises and whole value chains is still unsatisfying. A key source of problems are representational heterogeneities between the various perspectives and the various stages in the life-cycles of business processes. Typical examples are incompatible representations of the managerial vs. the IT perspective, or the gap between normative modeling for compliance purposes and process execution log data. As early as in the 1990s, researchers have evaluated the potential of using ontologies for improving business process management in the context of the TOVE project; however, the impact of that work remained beyond initial expectations. Since 2005, there is now a renewed and growing interest in exploiting ontologies, of varying expressivity and focus, for advancing the state of the art in business process management, in particular in ERP-centric IT landscapes. The term "Semantic Business Process Management" has been suggested for the described branch of research in an early 2005 paper, which is now frequently cited as the first description of the overall vision. A flagship activity in the field is the European research project "SUPER", with more than a dozen premier industrial and academic partners, among them SAP, IDS Scheer, and IBM. In the past two years, substantial advancement has been made in investigating the theoretical and practical branches of this vision. However, the interdisciplinary nature of the topic requires a tight collaboration of researcher from multiple fields of, namely the BPM, SOA, Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, and Economics communities. There is a clear need for an annual event at which those communities meet, debate, challenge each others approaches, and eventually align their research efforts. Due to the strong involvement of Semantic Web researchers in the field, ESWC is the ideal target venue for this event. In this workshop, we want to bring together experts from the relevant communities and help reach agreement on a roadmap for SBPM research. We aim at bundling experiences and prototypes from the successful application of Semantic Web technology to BPM in various industries, like automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical, and services domains. The particular focus is on deriving reusable best-practices from such experiences, and to yield convincing showcases of semantic technology.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Workflow -- Management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management - A Toolkit for Business Process Owners to Capture Early System Requirements

This video was recorded at 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Tenerife 2008. The degree of automation in the management of the business process space of single enterprises and whole value chains is still unsatisfying. A key source of problems are representational heterogeneities between the various perspectives and the various stages in the life-cycles of business processes. Typical examples are incompatible representations of the managerial vs. the IT perspective, or the gap between normative modeling for compliance purposes and process execution log data. As early as in the 1990s, researchers have evaluated the potential of using ontologies for improving business process management in the context of the TOVE project; however, the impact of that work remained beyond initial expectations. Since 2005, there is now a renewed and growing interest in exploiting ontologies, of varying expressivity and focus, for advancing the state of the art in business process management, in particular in ERP-centric IT landscapes. The term "Semantic Business Process Management" has been suggested for the described branch of research in an early 2005 paper, which is now frequently cited as the first description of the overall vision. A flagship activity in the field is the European research project "SUPER", with more than a dozen premier industrial and academic partners, among them SAP, IDS Scheer, and IBM. In the past two years, substantial advancement has been made in investigating the theoretical and practical branches of this vision. However, the interdisciplinary nature of the topic requires a tight collaboration of researcher from multiple fields of, namely the BPM, SOA, Semantic Web, Semantic Web services, and Economics communities. There is a clear need for an annual event at which those communities meet, debate, challenge each others approaches, and eventually align their research efforts. Due to the strong involvement of Semantic Web researchers in the field, ESWC is the ideal target venue for this event. In this workshop, we want to bring together experts from the relevant communities and help reach agreement on a roadmap for SBPM research. We aim at bundling experiences and prototypes from the successful application of Semantic Web technology to BPM in various industries, like automotive, engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical, and services domains. The particular focus is on deriving reusable best-practices from such experiences, and to yield convincing showcases of semantic technology.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Workflow -- Management
Resource Type:: Presentation

e-book

Working in the Food Service Industry

Food Service Industry

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Food service -- Vocational guidance Food service employees -- Vocational guidance Food service management
Resource Type:: e-book

MOOC

Wine Tasting: Sensory Techniques for Wine Analysis

Discuss the often perplexing question of how to pair wine with food, and the physical, structural, textural, and aromatic aspects of both the "wine side" and the "food side" of the equation

Keywords:: Wine wine making Wine tasting
Resource Type:: MOOC

e-journal

Wine Business Case Research Journal

Published by the Wine Business Institute at Sonoma State University, the WBCRJ is the premier outlet for applied wine business research to teach business strategy and leadership. All cases are decision focused and involve real people and events in the global wine business context. Case exhibits include financial statements, making them a highly valuable learning resource. Each issue provides an industry digest of the cases to inform global wine researchers and industry practitioners about cutting-edge challenges and possible solutions.

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Wine wine making Wine industry
Resource Type:: e-journal

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Wikimedia Commons

A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips)

Keywords:: Photographs Sound recordings Video recordings
Resource Type:: Image

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Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed

Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering and physics classrooms across the world. Both resonance from vortex shedding and aeroelastic flutter contributed to the failure. When you push the envelope, you have to be vigilant because things that didn’t matter before start to become important (e.g. wind loads on lighter structures). Unanticipated challenges are a cost of innovation and that’s something that we can all keep in mind.

Subjects:: Structural Engineering
Keywords:: Washington (State) -- Tacoma -- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) Suspension bridges Wind-pressure
Resource Type:: Video

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Why everything you know about autism is wrong | Jac den Houting | TEDxMacquarieUniversity

Being diagnosed with autism is often seen as a tragedy. But for Jac den Houting, it was the best thing that's ever happened to them. As an autistic person, concepts like the Neurodiversity paradigm, the Social Model of Disability, and the Double Empathy Problem were life-changing for Jac. In this talk, Jac combines these ideas with their own personal story to explain why we need to rethink the way that we understand autism. Jac den Houting is a research psychologist and Autistic activist in pursuit of social justice. Jac currently holds the role of Postdoctoral Research Associate at Macquarie University in Sydney, working alongside Professor Liz Pellicano. In 2015, Jac was awarded an Autism CRC scholarship to complete their PhD through the Autism Centre of Excellence at Griffith University in Brisbane. Prior to this, they gained almost 10 years’ experience as a psychologist in the criminal justice system, with the Queensland Police Service and Queensland Corrective Services. Jac was identified as Autistic at the age of 25, and is proudly neurodivergent and queer. After participating in the inaugural Future Leaders Program at the 2013 Asia Pacific Autism Conference, Jac quickly became established as a strong advocate for the Autistic community. Jac is a current member of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network of Australia and New Zealand (ASAN-AuNZ)’s Executive Committee, the Autism CRC’s Data Access Committee, Aspect’s LGBTQIA+ Autism Advisory Committee, and the Aspect Advisory Council. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Course related:: RS3320 Clinical Sciences in Developmental Dysfunction
Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Autistic people Autism Autistic people -- Services for
Resource Type:: Video

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Why do buildings fall in earthquakes?

Earthquakes have always been a terrifying phenomenon, and they’ve become more deadly as our cities have grown — with collapsing buildings posing one of the largest risks. But why do buildings collapse in an earthquake? And how can it be prevented? Vicki V. May explains the physics of why it is not the sturdiest buildings, but the smartest, that will remain standing.

Subjects:: Building and Real Estate and Disaster Control and Management
Keywords:: Building failures -- Prevention Earthquake resistant design Earthquake engineering Buildings -- Earthquake effects
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Why Tunnels Don't Collapse

This video shows how simple reinforcement is used to prevent collapse of rock tunnels. Tunnels play an important role in our constructed environment as passageways for mines, conveyance for utilities, and routes for transportation. Rock bolts are a type of reinforcement for stabilizing rock excavations, usually made from steel bars or bolts. This simple construction method dramatically reduces the cost of making tunnels through rock safe from collapse.

Subjects:: Structural Engineering
Keywords:: Underground construction Rock bolts Tunneling Tunnels
Resource Type:: Video

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Why The US Military Made GPS Free-To-Use

This video explains how GPS works, security issues of GPS, and why US military GPS can be made free for use.

Subjects:: Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Keywords:: Global Positioning System Artificial satellites in navigation
Resource Type:: Video

MOOC

Why Move Towards Cleaner Power

This course looks at how increasing greenhouse gases are warming the climate and what it means to decarbonise - reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of - the power sector. It will also provide a range of arguments in favour of decarbonisation, including consideration of ease of access to a secure and affordable energy supply and improvements to health and the environment. This course gathers together information about these different motivating factors for building a lower carbon power sector in one place, and includes a careful consideration of the importance of the political context. This course will challenge you to critically analyse your own political context. We would welcome advisors to senior decision makers in government, civil society activists and others interested in understanding and promoting renewable electricity to take this course. This course will help you develop a better understanding of the different dimensions of a move towards a cleaner power sector and develop more nuanced and detailed arguments.

Subjects:: Environmental Engineering and Environmental Policy and Planning
Keywords:: Renewable energy sources Energy policy Greenhouse gases -- Prevention Climatic changes
Resource Type:: MOOC

Video

Why Concrete Needs Reinforcement

This video shows more destructive testing to answer your questions about concrete. Concrete's greatest weakness is its tensile strength, which can be less than 10% of its compressive strength. So, we often reinforce it to create a composite material strong against all types of stress. This video briefly touches on conventional rebar and prestressed/post-tensioned reinforcement.

Subjects:: Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Reinforced concrete Concrete
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Why Build Higher?

This video discusses the topic of urban sprawl and the environmental and social impact if a city is expanding too fast

Subjects:: Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Cities towns -- Growth Housing policy Buildings -- Height restrictions City planning
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Why Bridges Move...

This video explains why ridges move, and other musings on thermal movement of large civil works. Most people have a certain intuition about thermal expansion, but you may not have considered how engineers design to accommodate it on large civil structures. The video gives a quick overview on this important consideration that engineers must account for when designing infrastructure like pipelines, bridges, and even sidewalks.

Subjects:: Structural Engineering
Keywords:: Structural analysis (Engineering) Expansion (Heat)
Resource Type:: Video

Video

When Trees Meet Buildings

Architects, engineers and developers are creating increasingly greener structures - and doing it in a more literal way than ever before. This is what happens when trees meet buildings.

Subjects:: Environmental Engineering, Building Services Engineering, and Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Buildings -- Energy conservation Roof gardening Sustainable buildings Sustainable construction Trees in cities
Resource Type:: Video

Presentation

What's in Your (Customer's) Wallet?

This video was recorded at 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Washington 2010. In 2009 IBM was recognized as a finalist of the INFORMS Edelman competition for its predictive modeling initiative to improve the productivity of its global salesforce and with an estimated business impact of ~ 100 Million dollars. The first component implements some traditional propensity modeling to identify new sales opportunities and is currently used by over 13,000 sales reps. The second 'wallet estimation' component is used strategically to allocate sales resources based on validated analytical estimates of revenue opportunity. In this case study we cover the key elements leading to the success including the data integration, data mining and predictive modeling, solution delivery, human guided model validation, integration of the business process and we conclude with an assessment of the bottom-line business impact.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Management
Keywords:: Sales management -- Data processing Management -- Data processing
Resource Type:: Presentation

Video

What is plagiarism

In this video, Mr Peter Sidorko, the University Librarian of the University of Hong Kong explain the importance of academic integrity. Students are expected to conduct themselves honesty and with integrity. One of the key responsibilities is to assure to credit the materials used to develop the ideas and academic work properly and avoid plagiarism.

Keywords:: Intellectual property Plagiarism Information literacy Academic writing
Resource Type:: Video

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What is a scholarly journal article?

Chances are you'll need to find a scholarly journal article for a research paper or project in the near future. But, wait, what is a "scholarly journal article?" How is it different from a popular source like a newspaper or magazine article? Let's reduce the confusion on scholarly journal articles. Scholarly journals enable scholars -- experts in a particular academic field -- to communicate their research with other experts in that field through publishing articles and to stay current by reading about other scholars' work. Consequently, scholarly journals create a community of scholars who are all participating in a kind of "conversation" in that academic field. Rather than a face-to-face conversation, this is a formal conversation, which takes place over months and years through written documents. The most important part of this long term written conversation - what makes it a “scholarly” conversation, as opposed to popular - is what's called the “peer review process.” The peer review process works like this: in order for a scholar to get published in a scholarly journal, his or her expert peers must read their work and critique it. These “peer reviewers” make sure that the scholar has cited the appropriate experts in the discipline, made valid and well-supported arguments, and has written the article on a topic that is appropriate for that particular journal. This rigorous evaluation process ensures that scholarly work meets a higher standard than popular publications. So, why is this important for you? First, the information in a scholarly text has been rigorously evaluated, so it is more reliable and credible than information in popular sources. Second, reading scholarly journal articles for your papers or projects can give you insight into the ways of thinking of experts in that field. Finally, every scholarly text has extensive bibliographies that introduce you to important texts in the field, which can help you extend your research in that area. When you read the articles and books the scholar cited in her article, you are taking part in the scholarly conversation.

Keywords:: Scholarly periodicals Scholarly publishing
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What is a Weir?

A weir is a small dam built across a river to control the upstream water level. Weirs have been used for ages to control the flow of water in streams, rivers, and other water bodies. Unlike large dams which create reservoirs, the goal of building a weir across a river isn’t to create storage, but only to gain some control over the water level. Over time, the term weir has taken on a more general definition in engineering to apply to any hydraulic control structure that allows water to flow over its top, often called its crest. In fact, the spillways of many large dams use weirs as control structures. So how do they work?

Subjects:: Hydraulic Engineering
Keywords:: Dams Hydraulics Weirs
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What is a Tuned Mass Damper?

In many of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, there’s a secret device protecting the building and the people inside from strong motion due to wind and earthquakes. Did you know you can tune a skyscraper just like a guitar? In this video, we’re comparing theory to the real world for tuned mass dampers. Luckily this tech is simple enough that we can model it right in the garage. As silly as this little experiment looks, it’s actually not that far off from what engineers do in the real world (maybe without the googly eyes). The design phase for just about every major building includes some physical scale model tests. This video shows that the tuned mass damper is a great example of elegance in engineering.

Subjects:: Structural Engineering
Keywords:: Tuned mass dampers Buildings -- Earthquake effects Buildings -- Vibration
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What is a Hydraulic Jump?

Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this episode, we’re talking about one of the most interesting phenomena in open-channel flow: the hydraulic jump.

Subjects:: Hydraulic Engineering
Keywords:: Hydraulics Hydraulic jump
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What is Water Hammer?

Hydraulic transients (also known as water hammer) can seem innocuous in a residential setting, but these spikes in pressure can cause major damage to large pipelines and industrial pipe networks. In this video, we briefly discuss how water hammer occurs and how engineers mitigate the effect.

Subjects:: Building Services Engineering
Keywords:: Water hammer Hydraulic transients Fluid mechanics
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What is Translation?

In four short dialogues, Oliver Taplin, Emeritus Professor in the Oxford University Classics Department and Lorna Hardwick, Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Classical Receptions in Late Twentieth Century Drama and Poetry in English project, discuss the issues surrounding the translation of Ancient Greek and Roman texts for modern audiences. Looking into the technical, philosophical and literary aspects of this, they centre their discussions around four topics: Is there a core to translation? Is there ever a faithful translation? Can Poetry be Translated? And who translates and for whom?

Subjects:: Translating and Interpreting
Keywords:: Translating interpreting
Resource Type:: Others

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What is Steam Hammer?

A few things that can go very wrong when you put steam in a pipe. We talked about the damaging effects of water hammer, but there’s another state of H2O equally if not more dangerous when put in pipes. In this episode, we’re talking about steam hammer and differential shock.

Subjects:: Building Services Engineering
Keywords:: Piping Fluid dynamics Pipelines
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