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Fundamentals of Business, Second Edition (2018) is an 372-page open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license. What’s new? This version of the book, the Second Edition, improves upon the 2016 edition. Improvements include: - Correction of errata identified in the 2016 compilation and many minor improvements. - Renumbering of chapters and added front matter. - Addition of new content: the PESTEL model in Chapter 2, Qualtrax case study in Chapter 7, and substantive revision of Chapter 16 Hospitality and Tourism. - Addition of desktop and mobile friendly navigation features and interactive self-quizzing (Pressbooks version only). - Addition of links to related external videos. - Addition of a low-resolution version. - Addition of accessibility features. Accessible PDFs: Figures now include alternative text (AltText) which enables access by users of screen reader software. - Broader format availability: PDF, epub, mobi, html, PressbooksXML, and OpenDocument (ODF) which is unformatted text editable with MSWord. - Addition of a feedback form for reporting errata - Addition of a faculty listserv and sharing portal. - Errata and corrections made to the Pressbooks version. No changes made to other formats. Features of the book. Each chapter lists learning objectives at the beginning of the chapter and key takeaways at the end of the chapter. The Pressbooks version of this book also includes interactive self-quizzing. Editable files are available in HTML, Open Document, PressBooks XML, ePub, MOBI, and PDF. Selected graphics produced by Brian Craig are available CC BY 4.0 via WikimediaCommons. A testbank is now available by request for this book. The testbank is available to any instructor who has adopted Fundamentals of Business in their course.
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- Management
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- Business Industrial management Textbooks
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A grasp of the logic and practice of science is essential to understand the rest of the world around us. To that end, the CMB3e iText (like earlier editions) remains focused on experimental support for what we know about cell and molecular biology, and on showing students the relationship of cell structure and function. Rather than trying to be a comprehensive reference book, CMB3e selectively details investigative questions, methods and experiments that lead to our understanding of cell biology. This focus is nowhere more obvious than in the chapter learning objectives and in external links to supplementary material. The Basic CMB3e version of the iText includes links to external web-sources as well as the author’s short, just-in-time YouTube VOPs (with edited, optional closed captions), all embedded in or near relevant text. Each video is identified with a descriptive title and video play and QR bar codes. The Learning objectives align with content and ask students to use new knowledge to make connections and deepen their understanding of concept and experiment. All external links are intended to expand or explain textual content and concepts and to engage student curiosity. Links to full VOP lectures are now at the back of the book. include optional edited closed captions. All images in the iText are by the author or are from public domain or Creative Commons (CC) licensed sources. For all externally sourced images, CC licenses are indicated with the image. Beyond the Basic CMB3e, the freely available Annotated CMB3e contains interactive links and formative assessments in the form of Challenge boxes. A CMB3e Sample Chapter and CMB3e iText for Instructors model additional interactive features, including short 25 Words or Less writing assignments that can be incorporated into almost any course management system, and all of which the author assigned as homework in his flipped, blended course. These assessments aim to reinforce writing as well as critical thinking skills. The CMB3e Sample Chapter is freely available for download; the CMB3e for Instructors version of the iText is available on request. My goal in writing this iText is to make the content engaging, free and comparable in accuracy and currency to commercial textbooks. I encourage instructors to use the interactive features of the iText (critical thought questions, YouTube videos, etc.) to challenge their students. With all of these enhancements, I encourage students to think about • how good and great experiments were inspired and designed, • how alternative experimental results were predicted, • how data was interpreted, and finally, • investigators (and we!) arrive at the most interesting “next questions”. The online iText is the most efficient way to access links and complete online assignments. Nevertheless, you can download, read, study, and access many links with a smart phone or tablet. And you can add your own annotations digitally, or write in the margins of a printout the old-fashioned way! Your instructor may provide additional instructions for using your iText.
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- Biology
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- Textbooks Cytology Molecular biology
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Biology 2e is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The text provides comprehensive coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts through an evolutionary lens. Biology includes rich features that engage students in scientific inquiry, highlight careers in the biological sciences, and offer everyday applications. The book also includes various types of practice and homework questions that help students understand—and apply—key concepts. The 2nd edition has been revised to incorporate clearer, more current, and more dynamic explanations, while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Art and illustrations have been substantially improved, and the textbook features additional assessments and related resources.
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Today we're learning how to study for exams with scientifically-proven techniques. We start by talking about why rereading, highlighting and summarising are pretty inefficient, and then talk about the evidence behind Active Recall as the most efficient revision technique. We end with a few suggestions as to how to incorporate Active Recall into your study routine.
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- Study skills
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Tutorials Point originated from the idea that there exists a class of readers who respond better to online content and prefer to learn new skills at their own pace from the comforts of their drawing rooms. We bring simple to understand Text and Video tutorials at zero cost and cover many subjects including IT, Engineering, MBA, MCA, Management, Various Exams Preparation and Academic subjects. In this video playlist, it covers the topic of control system, types of feed back, functions of system, mathematical model of control system, mechanical system, force voltage analogy, torque current analogy, block diagram elements, and signal flow graph, etc.
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- EE3005A Systems and Control
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- Electrical Engineering
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- Control theory Automatic control
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Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is operationalised by a mapping practice utilising Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Benjamin N. Vis gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological urban plans, exemplified by sixteenth- to twenty-first century Winchester (UK) and Classic Maya Chunchucmil (Mexico). This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored. The methodological development of Cities Made of Boundaries will appeal to readers interested in the comparative social analysis of built environments, and those seeking to expand the evidence-base of design options to structure urban life and development.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Urban geography Sociology Urban City planning -- Methodology
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A Comprehensive Guide for EndNote, Mendeley and Zotero
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This course is intended for students enrolling for BSc with Education and BEd degrees. Solid state physics forms the backborn of physics. The module has four units: Introduction to solid state physics; Crystal defects and mechanical properties ; Thermal and electrical properties; and Band theory & Optical properties.In the first unit/activity i.e. introduction to solid state physics. The student is expected to explain the atomic structure, describe the various atomic bonds such as ionic bonds and covalent bonds. The learning will also require students to distinguish between crystalline and amorphous solids; polycrystalline and amorphous solids and to explain the production and use of X-ray diffraction. In the second unit i.e. crystal defects and mechanical properties, the learning includes, differentiating between the different types of crystal defects: the point defects (vacancy, interstitials, and substitutional) and dislocations (screw and edge). Here, the student learns that point defects are very localised and are of atomic size, while dislocation is a disorder which extend beyond the volume of one or two atoms. The effects of the defects on mechanical, and electrical properties of these defects are also part of the learning that will take place. In unit three the learning outcomes include definitions of heat capacity, and explanations of variation of heat capacity with temperature based on the classical, Einstein and Debye models. The students will be required to use the free electron theory to explain high thermal and electrical conductivities of metals and also be able to derive and apply the Wiedermann-Frantz law. Finally, in activity four, the expected learning should enable the students to use the band theory to explain the differences between conductors, semiconductors and insulators; explain the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors in relation to the role of doping. At the end of it all, the students use the concepts of the interaction of electromagnetic waves (light) with materials to explain optical absorption, reflectivity and transmissivity.
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- Physics
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- Solid state physics
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A Virtual Reality introduction for Unity using HTC Vive for beginers. We will implement hand presence, teleportation and object grabbing in only 7 minutes without any line of code.
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- Interactive and Digital Media and Computing
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- Unity (Electronic resource) Computer simulation Virtual reality Human-computer interaction
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Photovoltaic systems are often placed into a microgrid, a local electricity distribution system that is operated in a controlled way and includes both electricity users and renewable electricity generation. This course deals with DC and AC microgrids and covers a wide range of topics, from basic definitions, through modelling and control of AC and DC microgrids to the application of adaptive protection in microgrids. You will master various concepts related to microgrid technology and implementation, such as smart grid and virtual power plant, types of distribution network, markets, control strategies and components. Among the components special attention is given to operation and control of power electronics interfaces. You will familiarize yourself with the advantages and challenges of DC microgrids (which are still in an early stage). You will have the opportunity to master the topic of microgrids through an exercise in which you will evaluate selected pilot sites where microgrids were deployed. The evaluation will take the form of a simulation assignment and include a peer review of the results.
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- Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering
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- Solar energy Renewable energy sources Photovoltaic power systems Microgrids (Smart power grids)
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Underestimating project complexity is widely accepted as one of the major causes of project failure. Based on international benchmarking activities (Merrow, 2010), we know that an average of 40% of projects do not deliver what they promised; for megaprojects in the oil and gas industry this figure is even worse (Ernst&Young, 2014). As with most external factors, many of the causes and consequences of complexity are difficult to avoid or control. When dealing with complexity, standard practices in the field of project management often overlook the inherent uncertainties linked to the length and scale of engineering and infrastructure projects and their constantly changing environments. The situation is exacerbated by rapidly evolving technologies and social change. Attempts to overcome these challenges by simply trying to reduce their causes is not enough. In this course, you will learn our approach to mastering complexity, focused on front-end development and teamwork, which will help you develop the skills you need to make timely actions in order to tackle complexities and improve your chances of project success. You will learn how to enhance your own capacities and capabilities by ensuring you have the necessary balance of complementary skills in your team. Project success starts with recognizing the main drivers of complexity, which can be highly subjective and highly dynamic. In this course, you will learn to identify what makes a project complex and how to perform a complexity assessment. Examining the elements of a project (such as interfaces, stakeholders, cultures, environment, technology, etc.) and their intricate interactions is key to mastering complexity. You will analyze these elements in the context of your own project. Then, based on our complexity framework, you will identify the complexity footprint of your project and use it to adapt your management processes. With personalized guidance and feedback from our world-class instructors, you will learn how to recognize what competencies you need to develop and how to adapt your management style accordingly, not only to improve project performance but also to enhance your decision-making capacity. This course has been designed by TU Delft’s international experts on Project Complexity, and is based on more than 60 years of practical experience as well as relevant research in the field. “We see projects still fail and there is a need to do things differently. That’s what this course is about: delivering the best practices for project execution based on our state-of-the-art research.” – Professor Hans Bakker.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Construction industry -- Management Complexity (Philosophy) Project management
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What do collapsed buildings, infected hospital patients, and crashed airplanes have in common? If you know the causes of these events and conditions, they can all be prevented. In this course, you will learn how to use the TU Delft mind-set to investigate the causes of such events so you can prevent them in the future. When, for instance, hundreds of hospital patients worldwide got infected after having gall bladder treatments, forensic engineering helped reveal how the design and use of the medical instruments could cause such widespread infections. As a result, changes were made to the instrument design and the procedural protocols in hospitals. Learning from failure in this case benefitted patient health and safety across the world. After taking this course you will have an understanding of failures and the investigation processes used to find their causes. You will learn how to apply lessons gained from investigating previous failures into new designs and procedures.
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- Forensic engineering Failure analysis (Engineering)
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Life in the city relies on the smooth operation of urban logistics. Everything from retail to services, construction to waste collection rely on an efficient and reliable freight transport system. However, with the increasing pressures of urbanization, this has to be balanced with the environmental and social impacts caused by transport activity. This is the challenge of City Logistics, a field of study that has significant practical implications for the world and the cities we live in. It is not merely a question of what is involved, but what can be done about urban freight transport to improve it for the sake of economic efficiency, quality of life, and sustainability. From a systematic scientific foundation of the field, this course will take you on a journey to learn how city logistics is understood and practiced in cities around the world. Our instructors, members of a renowned global expert network, will teach you the basics of this highly complex social system. Using their experience in real-world projects, they will illustrate how the knowledge learnt in this course is applied across industry and the public sector. This course caters primarily to university students or professionals working in urban transport infrastructure planning or logistics management. Whether you are simply curious about the topic or you intend to develop a career in these fields, this course will give you the tools you need to understand the complexities of urban freight transport systems. The course emphasizes the theoretical foundation, the rigorous evaluation, and a multi-disciplinary approach to this complex area. Course participants will benefit from numerous case studies of best practice in selected cities around the world, in a variety of business settings. Our emphasis on the global perspective is particularly relevant, since an understanding of local culture and political climate is an important factor in the success of any city logistics intervention. The course will provide an avenue for students to learn from their peers about the challenges faced in their respective cities, and how to apply the principles learned to the challenges faced in their own cities.
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- Transportation
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- Freight freightage Transportation -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Urban transportation
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- Courseware
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Products and equipment all around us are made of materials: look around you and you will see phones, computers, cars, and buildings. We face challenges in securing the supply of materials and the impact this has on the planet. Innovative product design can help us find solutions to these challenges. This course will explore new ways of designing products. The design of products is an important aspect of a circular economy. The circular economy approach addresses material supply challenges by keeping materials in use much longer and eventually returning materials for new use. The principle is that waste must be minimized. Products will be designed to last longer. They will be easier to Reuse, Repair, and Remanufacture. The product will eventually be broken down and Recycled. This is Design for R and is the focus of this course. Experts from leading European universities and research organizations will explain the latest strategies in product design. Current design approaches lead to waste, loss of value and loss of resources. You will learn about the innovative ways in which companies are creating value, whilst securing their supply chains, by integrating Design for R. This course is suitable for all learners who have an interest in product design, innovative engineering, new business activity, entrepreneurship, sustainability, circular economy and everyone who thinks that the current way we do things today needs a radical rethink.
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- Environmental Engineering
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- Engineering design Industrial management -- Environmental aspects Sustainable design Remanufacturing
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- Courseware
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Around the world, major challenges of our time such as population growth and climate change are being addressed in cities. Here, citizens play an important role amidst governments, companies, NGOs and researchers in creating social, technological and political innovations for achieving sustainability. Citizens can be co-creators of sustainable cities when they engage in city politics or in the design of the urban environment and its technologies and infrastructure. In addition, citizens influence and are influenced by the technologies and systems that they use every day. Sustainability is thus a result of the interplay between technology, policy and people’s daily lives. Understanding this interplay is essential for creating sustainable cities. In this MOOC, we zoom in on Amsterdam, Beijing, Ho Chi Minh City, Nairobi, Kampala and Suzhou as living labs for exploring the dynamics of co-creation for sustainable cities worldwide. We will address topics such as participative democracy and legitimacy, ICTs and big data, infrastructure and technology, and SMART technologies in daily life. This global scope will be used to illustrate why specific forms of co-creation are preferred in specific urban contexts. Moreover, we will investigate and compare these cities on three themes that have a vast effect on city life: - Water and waste - Energy, air, food and mobility - Green spaces and food This MOOC will teach you about the dynamics of co-creation and the key principles of citizens interacting with service providing companies, technology and infrastructure developers, policy makers and researchers. You will gain an understanding of major types of co-creation and their interdependency with their socio-technical and political contexts. You will become equipped to indicate how you can use co-creation to develop innovative technologies, policy arrangements or social practices for a sustainable city in your own community. You will demonstrate this by developing an action plan, research proposal or project idea. Basic knowledge of sustainability in urban settings, urban environmental technology and urban management is assumed.
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- Environmental Engineering, Building Services Engineering, and Building and Real Estate
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- Sustainable development Sustainable development -- Citizen participation City planning
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- Courseware
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Sometimes conventional reinforcement isn't enough. The basics of prestressed concrete. Prestressing reinforcement doesn't necessarily make concrete stronger. But, it does increase the serviceability of concrete members by reducing the amount of deflection under load. This video explains the two most common types of prestressed concrete: pre-tensioned and post-tensioned. Prestressed concrete is used in all kinds of structures from bridges to buildings to silos and tanks. It’s a great way to minimize cracking and take fuller advantage of the incredible strength of reinforced concrete.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Prestressed concrete Reinforced concrete
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- Video
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This video discusses the purpose and function of elevated water storage tanks. The job of finding enough water, making it safe to use, and then reliably distributing it to the system customers with almost no downtime is a monumental task that requires a lot of infrastructure. And, probably the most visible component of a public water system is the elevated storage tank, also known as a water tower.
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- Building Services Engineering
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- Tanks Water towers Water-supply
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- Video
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Water hammer can work in both directions, and I only discussed one of those in the previous video (https://youtu.be/xoLmVFAFjn4). This episode revisits that demonstration to show how water hammer can form a vacuum pressure in a pipe. Momentum carrying fluid away from a valve wants to keep going even after the valve is closed. This generates a negative pressure than can cause major damage!
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- Building Services Engineering
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- Valves Water hammer Hydraulic control Hydraulic transients Relief valves Fluid mechanics
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- Video
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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.
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- Structural Engineering
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- Structural analysis (Engineering) Expansion (Heat)
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- Video
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This video shows the basics of fluid cavitation, including demonstration from AvE. If you subject a fluid to a sudden change in pressure, some interesting things can happen. You can cause tremendous damage to moving parts, or you can harness this destructive power in many beneficial ways.
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- Hydrodynamics Cavitation Fluid mechanics
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- Video
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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.
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- Structural Engineering
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- Underground construction Rock bolts Tunneling Tunnels
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- Video
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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.
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- Structural Engineering
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- Washington (State) -- Tacoma -- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) Suspension bridges Wind-pressure
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- Video
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What's the difference between concrete and cement? Concrete is the most important construction material on earth and foundation of our modern society. At first glance it seems rudimentary, but there is a tremendous amount of complexity involved in every part of designing and placing concrete. This video is meant to be a bare-bones introduction to the topic, with a cool demonstration of concrete strength using a hydraulic press.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Concrete Cement
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- Video
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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.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Reinforced concrete Concrete
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- Video
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While steel reinforcement solves one of concrete’s greatest limitations, it creates an entirely new problem: Corrosion of embedded steel rebar is the most common form of concrete deterioration. There are lots of ways to combat this problem, a few of which we discuss/demonstrate in this video, including fiber reinforced concrete, adequate protective cover, and fiber reinforced polymer bars.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Protective coatings Reinforced concrete -- Corrosion -- Prevention Reinforcing bars -- Corrosion Fiber-reinforced concrete
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- Video
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This video discusses a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted concrete (RCC) and water reducing admixtures (superplasticizers). There are a whole host of differences between modern concrete and that of the western Roman empire that I didn’t have time to go into, including freeze/thaw damage.
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Concrete construction Roller compacted concrete Concrete -- Additives Concrete
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- Video
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The visiting professor of Creative Media, Stig Abell delivers a series of lectures about the current trends in reporting media.
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- Journalism and Communication
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- Reporters reporting Journalism
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- Others
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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.
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- Chinese Studies
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- Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) Caricatures cartoons
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- Image
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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.
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- Environmental Engineering, Building Services Engineering, and Building and Real Estate
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- Buildings -- Energy conservation Roof gardening Sustainable buildings Sustainable construction Trees in cities
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- Video
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This video discusses the technical aspects to consider when designing an airport runway.
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- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Transportation
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- Airports Runways (Aeronautics) -- Design construction Aeronautics Commercial
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- Video
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This video discusses pros and cons of building higher, from the both technical and cost perspectives.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
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- Building -- Estimates Skyscrapers Housing City planning Tall buildings
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- Video
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Can renewable energy be adopted to aviation transportation industry? Can our giant planes powered by batteries? This video discusses some possibilities.
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- Environmental Engineering, Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, and Transportation
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- Renewable energy sources Energy storage Airplanes -- Fuel
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- Video
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Is hydrogen the solution to electric cars? This video discusses the safety of hydrogen, cost of hydrogen, infrastructure set up for hydrogen charging, and how hydrogen fuel cells work in vehicles.
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Hydrogen fuel cell cars and lithium-ion battery powered cars, which is more energy efficient and cost effective? This video shows you some facts from perspectives of production, storage of fuels, and infrastructure set up for charging.
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- Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Transportation
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- Hydrogen cars Hydrogen as fuel Electric vehicles Fuel cells Hydrogen -- Storage
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- Video
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In this video, a group of students comes to a librarian’s office to enquire about how to manage their references.They scheduled an appointment with Ms. Janet Lee, a Research Support Librarian to learn about citation management.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Report writing Citation of electronic information resources Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Technical writing
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- Video
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In this video, a group of students came to a professor’s office and enquired how to cite sources in their research proposal.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations Scientific literature -- Evaluation Technical writing Research -- Methodology
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- Video
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Others
In this presentation, it explain three areas: (1) Law journals submission and ranking, (2) Information for submitting articles to law review & journal, and (3) Submission of law student articles for publication.
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- Law -- Periodicals Scholarly publishing Authorship Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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- Others
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Others
In this exercise, learners are required to find the statement that best describes the publications or the type of law review and journal and match them up.
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- Information resources Legal research
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- Others
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One may try to publish in the best law review or journal as much as possible for various reasons, such as getting a teaching job. Journals are normally ranked by rates of citation, prominence of authors,reputation, etc. In this presentation, there are various law review and journal lists, some provide ranking information. The ranking is based on the mechanism adopted by the respective system.
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- Law -- Periodicals Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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- Others
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You have learned that it is necessary to evaluate legal information. And you have also learned some evaluation criteria. In this exercise, learners are required to match the legal information together.
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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- Others
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In this video, Dr Rebecca Ong, at City University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights on how to decide whether an idea or argument is strong and relevant to your research
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- Legal research
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In the video, it explains the criteria to use to evaluate legal information.
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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In the video, it explains why it is important to evaluate legal information.
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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In this video, a year 3 LLB student who is preparing a term paper with a substantial research component regularly consults his supervisor. In a recent meeting, the supervisor queries why two pieces of information were cited in his draft. One piece of information is from a local real estate agent’s website summarizing the legal provision for the Hong Kong deed of mutual covenant agreements. Another piece of information is a court case covered in a Hong Kong land law blog.
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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- Video
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Others
In this exercise, learners are required to match the legal publication with its contents.
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- Information resources Legal research
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- Others
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Besides case law, legislation is also important for Jacob's legal research! The law librarian suggests he refreshes his understanding about what legislation is, and how to develop skills in researching legislation.This video will help you develop your skills in researching legislation.
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- China -- Hong Kong Legal research -- Databases Legislation Legal research
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In this video, it explains what case law is, how and why to use it for legal research.
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- Information resources Judge-made law Legal research
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Others
In this exercise, learners are required to match legal resources with the contents.
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- Information resources Legal research
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- Others
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In this video, it explains what secondary legal material are. Secondary legal sources often explain legal principles more thoroughly so it is good to start your research project with secondary sources.
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- Information resources Legal research -- Databases Legal research Legal research -- Computer network resources
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- Video
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In this video, Dr Rebecca Ong, at City University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights on what ways do law researchers benefit from social media.
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- Online social networks Social media Legal research
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- Video
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When Jacob receives his term paper assignment, he cannot find previous Land Law course materials. He and his classmates discuss what they should do next in the Library. They consult the law librarian who suggests they watch the this video to get an idea on how to plan and start legal research.
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- Information retrieval Legal research
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: Is it common we are not capable to fully implement our lesson plan in the classroom?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: what are the key ways to understand your student's progress of learning during a lesson.
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- Teaching Effective teaching
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A subject encyclopedia contains articles (some short, some long) on the theories, events and thinkers that sum up the available literature about a discipline. Articles are arranged in alphabetical order.Indexes in the back of the encyclopedia can help you to determine if the encyclopedia contains an article on your topic, or if your topic is covered within an essay on a related topic. In this slide, here are some examples of subject encyclopedias that may available in your university library.
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- Encyclopedias Education Encyclopedias dictionaries
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- Others
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: what do we need to pay attention to when using publisher's material in our lesson?
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- Information resources Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: Why is it important to have a lesson plan?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Planning
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In this video, Prof. Christina Yu, Associate Vice President (Student Learning) at The Education University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights into seeking, evaluating information for a lesson plan. In this video, Prof. Yu has to say about the following aspects: (1)What is a lesson plan? (2) What are the essential questions that we need to bear in mind when planning a lesson?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Learning Psychology of
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In this exercise, a team of students listed out a number of tasks that they have to complete when preparing the lesson plan. Which of the following task will be listed as the top priority on your to-do list? Will you start searching at this moment?
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- Lesson planning Teaching Information literacy
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- Others
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In this video, the students are plan to submit their report to "Student Newspaper" and call the editor for advices.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Scholarly publishing Copyright
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- Video
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In this video, students are discussing the design of the report. One suggests to record an interview by their smartphones and use the video editing software.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research Cell phones Interviewing
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In this video, the team won the best student poster award at the poster exhibition, and they are being invited to publish an exclusive feature story in the student e-newspaper. They want to use an infographic to help present their ideas and would like to extend their research to invite the interviewee to share their views on the topic.They are excited about writing for the student e-newspaper, and they are interested to know the ethical and legal issues around the use of information.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Communication in education Copyright
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In this video, the team handed in their report, and their tutor liked it a lot and encouraged them to enter the Research Poster Exhibition. The poster exhibition aims to facilitate students to present their research to the broader university community. So the team is preparing their poster now.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Psychology -- Authorship Communication in education Poster presentations Technical writing
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- Video
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In this video, the students are whining about how difficult it is to prepare their paper in APA Style. Then a senior student shared with them the tips of using reference management tools like EndNote; RefWorks; Mendeley; and Zotero.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Information storage retrieval systems
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- Video
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In this exercise, learners are required to tell which one is a citation entry for a book/book chapter/article/map/news article.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Authorship Bibliographical citations Psychology -- Authorship
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- Others
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In this video, the students are trying to finish writing up their report and using APA as the citation style.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Authorship Psychology -- Authorship Bibliographical citations
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In this video, the team meets again, after analyzing and evaluating their search results from academic articles and news sources. They found they need to be careful in avoiding using fake news into their work. Fake news is not a new phenomenon, but with the rise of social media like Facebook and Twitter and the extensive use of messaging apps like WhatsApp and WeChat, we are faced with growing cases of FAKE news.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources -- Evaluation Social sciences -- Research Fake news Internet research
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In this video, the team has spent a lot of time on searching relevance journal articles, but still, could not locate the right one. That's probably because they did not search with the right keywords and are unable to connect them correctly. Did you encounter this similar situation before? Let's look at this one-minute video to brush up on your searching skills on using subject terms, Boolean operators, truncation, and more.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Keyword searching Information retrieval Database searching
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- Video
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In this video, the team requires to include viewpoints from journal articles in this academic project. You may ask, which articles are most influential and should be read first? Which journals are more prestigious in the field? Who are the champion authors on the topic?All these questions can be answered quickly if you select the right tools.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information retrieval Social sciences -- Periodicals Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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In this video, the team finds that even they've covered the academic sources, but something is still missing. Having said that Google might not be ideal to kick-start your research; it does help you connect with top-quality reports by professional bodies if you know these tricks.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research Google (Firm) Internet searching
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Starting your research in Google may not be ideal as it often ends up leading you to millions of websites and you have no clue which ones are dependable and reliable. Let’s watch this video and learn the short-cut of locating quality social sciences information.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Keyword searching Social sciences -- Research Database searching Web search engines Internet searching
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- Video
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In this game, you need to match the types of information sources with the corresponding information needs.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Social sciences -- Research Information literacy
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- Others
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In this video, two students are discussing the types of information are needed to answer the sub-questions. In their conversation, various type of information, including manuscripts, diaries and autobiographies, audio recordings and videos, original art works, letter patents, conference papers, books, government publications, critical analysis and review, journal articles, and handbooks.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Social sciences -- Research Information literacy
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- Video
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In this exercise, learners are required to rank the task in the order that reflects the usual practices.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research
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- Others
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In this video, a group of students from the School of Journalism and Communication is preparing for a group assignment. They need to do a group assignment based on one current social hot topic - Elderly issue and social protection system in Asian countries.The team is now discussing how to kick-start the group assignment and what information sources are needed. Let's check out what they are discussing!
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
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- Video
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In this video, a team of students found one article about the candy-soda geyser from the Journal of Chemical Education and would like to add this into the General Chemistry Laboratory. However, the journal article was published in 2007, so it is a bit out of date. Prof Cheong encourages you to search for any recent updates to this experiment.
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In this game, learners are required to put the information that can support the work in different research stages.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Research -- Methodology Information literacy Information resources
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- Others
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In this matching game, learners are required to match the different phases of a research project.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Research -- Methodology Research
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- Others
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In this video, Prof. Cheong will introduce the general procedure to carry out a literature search and the necessary resources that the students should consult.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Proposal writing in research Chemistry -- Research Research -- Methodology Research
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- Video
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In this matching game, learners are required to match various scientific content types, for example, books, literature review articles, encyclopedia entry, conference proceedings, scholarly journal articles, government documents, reference books, technical reports, with their intended purpose.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Research Information literacy Information resources
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- Others
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In this video, the 4 students have used skills learned in Section 3 to evaluate the information found in various databases on a journal article, e-books, anatomy and drug information, etc. They have now come up with a batch of most relevant information that they will use in their community health project assignment which comprises the creation of patient education materials and the writing up of a project report. They meet to discuss what information they should use to fulfil the information tasks. The issue of properly citing sources of the information used also comes up as a skill that they also need to master to avoid plagiarism.
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In this exercise, learners are required to sort the given information into scholarly journals or popular magazine.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medical sciences -- Research Information literacy
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- Others
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In this video, a team of four students have used skills learned in the previous module and found a lot of information which seems relevant. They now have a problem of evaluating the information found to determine what is the most relevant to their research. Apart from that, they also found that there are many types of medical research and studies.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Medicine -- Research -- Methodology Public health -- Research -- Methodology Medical care -- Research -- Methodology
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- Video
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In this exercise, students are required to match various types of information in health sciences.
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In this exercise, please rank the task in the order that reflect your usual research practices.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medicine -- Research
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- Others
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In this video, a team of students preparing for a group community health project on the topic “overuse of hands and arms”. The project is a student learning activity of Problem-based Public Health module in the MBBS curriculum offered by the School of Public Health. The team is required to deliver patient education materials and a written report on the topic they decided.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medicine -- Research Technical writing
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- Video
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In this video, you will learn about how to cite in IEEE style.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Style manuals Bibliographical citations Technical writing
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- Video
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Over 20 student teams from national and international universities, including UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan, presented their global health technologies at the Rice competition. In this video, it share the story of 2 team of HKUST students. SIGHT was the first team from HKUST to participate in the Rice competition and they won.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Engineering -- Research Technological innovations Medical records -- Data processing Pharmacy management
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- Video
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In this video, you will learn about strategies to critically evaluate search results, including (1) Choose good & varied search tools, (2) Ask yourself what you want or need, (3) Use the sorting & filtering functions, (4) Look for your keywords the important parts of the results, (5) Pay issuing organization or publisher, (6) Ask yourself the information whether is credible, suitable, technical information appropriate to your information needs.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Engineering -- Research -- Methodology Engineering -- Research Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation
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- Video
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In this video, a team of students are working on their engineering innovation project. They used various search tools to find various information. However, they have difficulties to decide what to look at first, and how to choose in a strategic and clever way.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Engineering -- Research
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- Video
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In this slide, you will learn more about citation counts, h-index, eigenfactor score, and impact factor.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Engineering -- Periodicals Bibliometrics Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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- Others
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Others
In this exercise, you will learn various engineering content types. For example, journal articles & conference papers, e-books, patents, standards, thesis & dissertations.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Information resources Engineering -- Research Information literacy
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- Others
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While many journal articles and conference papers are written by scholars working at universities or research institutions, professional engineering associations also play a major role in disseminating research findings and practices by: Publishing peer-reviewed research journals Publishing practical “trade” journals Holding conferences & publishing proceedings In this video, it explains what professional associations do and why it matters.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Professional associations Professional education Periodicals
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- Video
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There's lots of Engineering information on the Web. Some ask you to pay money; your library probably already subscribes to many good sources. As you develop into a professional engineer, you will learn to go beyond general web pages or web docs & become a more sophisticated engineering information user and creator. In this video, it introduces different engineering information (characteristics & purposes).
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- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources Engineering -- Research
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- Video
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Many fresh graduates are unaware that the jobs postings in newspapers or employment websites are only the tip of the iceberg when compared to all the actual career opportunities available on the market. Oftentimes, the advertised jobs attract dozens or even hundreds of interested candidates. Tracking down a position that is unadvertised or doesn’t yet exist is therefore worthwhile because one will face a lot less competition. In this video, a team of students are discovering the golden opportunity of their lives. Does their story inspire you to find your own future dream job?
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- College graduates -- Employment New business enterprises
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- Video
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In this video, a student, Jacob comes up with a brilliant idea to compile over hundreds of highly relevant citations for his reference list in just under an hour. Without this shortcut, Jacob might have spent a week tidying up his references before submitting his paper. Do you want to learn how Jacob so painlessly created the reference list? Watch the video below and see what Jacob ends up doing after he meets with Prof. Ian, his co-supervisor of the research project.
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- Bibliographical citations Report writing
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- Video
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Most successful people are able to perceive the world around them differently, looking creatively at organisations and systems. They uncover hidden patterns and possibilities that allow them to discover new insights and new ways of doing things. In this video, most of the teammates regard its completion as the end of a journey, there is one student who spots an opportunity to do more.
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- Business planning Business -- Research -- Methodology Proposal writing in business
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- Video
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In this video, Dr Robert Wright, a multi-award winning teacher and researcher at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, shares his views on the various aspects of information seeking: Inspiration -- Where does he get inspiration for research? Selecting info -- How does he select appropriate information for his research projects? Evaluating info -- What criteria help him evaluate the quality of a research article? Top tips -- What tips does he have for his students to help them read and understand an academic journal article?
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- Business -- Research -- Methodology Management -- Research -- Methodology
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- Video
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In this video, Dr Charles Lam shares his views on how to deals with information at various stages of the investment deal. In his sharing, he covers 4 stages of the investment deal. In completing a deal -- What are the major steps involved in completing a real estate investment deal? In making decisions about real estate -- Which business information will inform his decision-making? In validating information -- What mechanism does he use to validate the information sources and data? In spotting bad information -- How does he spot out biased or even fraudulent information?
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- Investments Real estate investment Business -- Research -- Methodology Investment analysis
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- Video
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In this video, Ms Huang, industry analyst from Bloomberg Intelligence, shares her views on how to deals with information at various stages of research namely: At the start -- What information does Margaret seek to kick-start research into an industry theme? During the search -- How does she determine the reliability of her data sources? During the search -- What major challenges does she face when dealing with business information? At the end -- What makes her industry research valuable to investors?
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- Investments Business -- Research -- Methodology Investment analysis
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- Video
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In this video, a member of the team discovers a piece of surprising investment advice that she shares with her teammates. Watch the video to see the competition results and learn about the investment advice. What goes wrong?
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- Investments Investment analysis Stocks -- Prices
- Resource Type:
- Video
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