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Teaching Low Brass

The purpose of this textbook is to provide resources about teaching low brass instruments to music educators and future music educators. The book was developed by the author as part of the open/alternative textbook initiative at Kansas State University. It Is the textbook used for the Kansas State University course Music 239-Low Brass Techniques and Materials. The textbook focuses on two areas: basic information including pedagogical material for teaching low brass students and low brass etudes. The information is divided into several categories including brass history, the overtone series, general intonation tendencies, embouchure, instruments and equipment, literature, maintenance, vibrato, and low brass in the marching band. Pedagogical material is interspersed throughout each of the chapters. Etudes are incorporated in the appendix of the textbook. These etudes are intended to be used in a laboratory setting with future music educators learning each low brass instrument for the first time. Instrument fingerings, slide positions, and simple warm-up material is also available in the appendix.

Subjects:: Performing Arts
Keywords:: Brass instruments -- Instruction study Textbooks Brass instruments
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Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order

The Technical Project Management class is designed to help students build on their past experiences and develop effective strategies for managing complex technical projects, with an emphasis on applying project management concepts to real-world problems. In the weekly web conferences, the class comes together in community to discuss the lesson topics, considering the practical applications of the concepts in each subject area.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Management Textbooks
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Technical project management in living and geometric order

"This book is organized around the fifteen lessons of a Technical Project Management course, with an emphasis on the connections between the various stages and practices of technical project management. After all, in practice, a project manager must continually draw on a wide base of knowledge, connecting, for instance, effective negotiating techniques with best practices for scheduling and resource allocation. No phase of a project unfolds in complete isolation from other phases of the project. Everything is connected. Our goal in this book is to create doors and windows in the normally self-contained silos of activities involved in technical project management, drawing connections between planning and risk management, between risk management and ethics, between ethics and supply chain management, just to name a few of the many connections you will read about in this book"--BCcampus website.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Project management Leadership
Resource Type:: e-book

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Technology That Knows What You're Feeling

What happens when technology knows more about us than we do? Poppy Crum studies how we express emotions -- and she suggests the end of the poker face is near, as new tech makes it easy to see the signals that give away how we're feeling. In a talk and demo, she shows how "empathetic technology" can read physical signals like body temperature and the chemical composition of our breath to inform on our emotional state. For better or for worse. "If we recognize the power of becoming technological empaths, we get this opportunity where technology can help us bridge the emotional and cognitive divide," Crum says.

Subjects:: Technology, Electronic and Information Engineering, and Mechnical Engineering
Keywords:: Emotion recognition Artificial intelligence
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The (High-Quality) Ideas Constructors

This video is about 'how to create high-quality ideas?'.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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The 5 Problems With Fundamental Color Theory

Color theory is one of the first tools we learn as designers. This article goes over five myths of color theory that could be limiting us as designers.

Subjects:: Design Elements
Keywords:: Color in design
Resource Type:: Others

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The Amazing Journey of Information

This video is about "where does information come from?".

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
Resource Type:: Video

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The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. “Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage,” Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. “Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. … It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one’s hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a “heroic” profession.” What is the payoff for this heroic journey? You will find ideas that can carry you across rivers of doubt and over mountains of fear to find the the light and life of places forgotten. Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world’s jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil. In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human.

Subjects:: Anthropology
Keywords:: Ethnology Textbooks
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The Art of Reflection

Throughout your career journey we want you to learn how to become a reflective practitioner and you will develop this skill a lot as you work through these courses and as you progress through your degree.
Reflection is so important if you crack this now this is an attribute you can take with you for your whole life both professionally and personally.
This video will show you the fundamentals of how to what is reflection develop this graduate attribute.

Keywords:: Well-being Reflection (Philosophy)
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The Best Free Figma Resources: Templates, Icons, UI Kits, and More

If you are using Figma as your interface design tool, this article has an awesome list of free resources to help you. Figma allows you to collaborate in real time while creating flawless and responsive experiences.

Subjects:: Technology
Keywords:: Computer drawing Computer graphics
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The End of Journalism

The visiting professor of Creative Media, Stig Abell delivers a series of lectures about the current trends in reporting media.

Subjects:: Journalism and Communication
Keywords:: Reporters reporting Journalism
Resource Type:: Others

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The Importance of Adaptability

Ken Cooper, Global Head of HR for Bloomberg, shares his insights on why being adaptable matters for individuals and organizations to remain relevant in an ever-changing world.

Keywords:: Organizational behavior Change (Psychology) Adaptability (Psychology) Organizational change -- Management
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The Information Check Point

This video is about the basics techniques of evaluating information.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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Open (Access) Journal-Article

The Integration of Lean Management and Six Sigma Strategies to Improve the Performance of Production in Industrial Pharmaceutical, Vol. 13, No. 8 (2018) | International Journal of Business and Management | CCSE

The aim of this paper is to identify the lean management and Six Sigma strategies to improve production performance in pharmaceutical companies through the ...

Subjects:: Management and Business Information Technology
Keywords:: Pharmaceutical industry -- Quality control Production management Six sigma (Quality control stard)
Resource Type:: Open (Access) Journal-Article

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The Psychology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Many of us will experience some kind of trauma during our lifetime. Sometimes, we escape with no long-term effects. But for millions of people, those experiences linger, causing symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, and negative thoughts that interfere with everyday life. Joelle Rabow Maletis details the science behind post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

Subjects:: Psychology
Keywords:: Post-traumatic stress disorder
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The Reality of Processes

An animation which illustrates from a real story. 3 students went to a very large IT company in Shanghai for summer placement and they found how difficult it was to capture or rediscover the business process in reality.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Industrial management Workflow -- Management
Resource Type:: Video

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The Simple Math of Writing Well: Writing for the 21st Century

Writing guides abound, but The Simple Math of Writing Well is one of a kind. Readers will find its practical approach affirming, encouraging, and informative, and its focus on the basics of linguistic structure releases 21st-century writers to embrace the variety of mediums that define our internet-connected world. As Harrop reminds us in the opening chapters of her book, we write more today than ever before in history: texts, emails, letters, blogs, reports, social media posts, proposals, etc. The Simple Math of Writing Well is the first guide that directly addresses the importance of writing well in the Google age.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: Report writing College readers Textbooks English language -- Rhetoric
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The Skeletal System

Now that we know more about the structure of bones, we are ready to see how they all come together to form the skeletal system. An adult has 206 bones. What are they? How are they organized? What do they do? Let's go through all of these bones right now!

Course related:: HSS2011 Human Anatomy
Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human skeleton Bones
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The Testing Phase of Design Thinking

Testing your design before it goes into the masses is important. It’ll help you see if the design functions effectively and how it was intended. In this article, you’ll learn more about the importance of the testing phase of design thinking.

Subjects:: Design Elements
Keywords:: Design
Resource Type:: Others

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The Truth about Hydrogen

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.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Transportation
Keywords:: Hydrogen cars Hydrogen as fuel Electric vehicles Fuel cells Hydrogen -- Storage
Resource Type:: Video

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The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles

This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode Standard and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Although these standards are often met with frustration by users, they nevertheless provide language researchers and programmers with a consistent computational architecture needed to process, publish and analyze lexical data from the world's languages. Thus we bring to light common, but not always transparent, pitfalls which researchers face when working with Unicode and IPA. Having identified and overcome these pitfalls involved in making writing systems and character encodings syntactically and semantically interoperable (to the extent that they can be), we created a suite of open-source Python and R tools to work with languages using orthography profiles that describe author- or document-specific orthographic conventions. In this cookbook we describe a formal specification of orthography profiles and provide recipes using open source tools to show how users can segment text, analyze it, identify errors, and to transform it into different written forms for comparative linguistics research.

Subjects:: Language and Languages and Computing
Keywords:: Language languages -- Orthography spelling Unicode (Computer character set) Textbooks
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The advantages of being information literate

In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate give you critical and strategic approaches to solve problems. It's you who need to decide using which type (e.g. research or non-research based) of information to support ideas, claims, and proposals that you propose in your research task.

Keywords:: Study skills Learning Information literacy
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The role information and information literacy play in 4 steps methods for creating refutations

In this slide, it explains the 4-steps-method outlined by the University of Pittsburg and it illustrate the role information and information literacy play in each step to help learners to see the bigger picture.

Keywords:: Information retrieval Study skills Information literacy
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The science of skin - Emma Bryce

Between you and the rest of the world lies an interface that makes up 16% of your physical weight. This is your skin, the largest organ in your body: laid out flat, it would cover close to 1.7 square metres of ground. But besides keeping your organs in, what is its purpose? Emma Bryce takes us into the integumentary system to find out. Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Augenblick Studios.

Course related:: BME1D04 Subject Title Skin-Care Technologies: Principles, Applications and Safety
Subjects:: Health Sciences and Human Biology
Keywords:: Body covering (Anatomy) Skin
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To assess the relevant primary and secondary sources for the exhibition

In this video, a team of students arrive the university library and meet the Reference Librarian at a discussion room. The Reference Librarian firstly recaps the concepts of the AAOCC. Then, she mentions the additional criteria for evaluating the primary and secondary sources!

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Information resources Information resources -- Evaluation Information literacy
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To cite properly in APA style

In this video, the students are trying to finish writing up their report and using APA as the citation style.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Social sciences -- Authorship Psychology -- Authorship Bibliographical citations
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To formulate a legal research plan

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.

Keywords:: Information retrieval Legal research
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To record a street interview

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.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Social sciences -- Research Cell phones Interviewing
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To use information ethically and legally

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.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Communication in education Copyright
Resource Type:: Video

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Transition with Purpose: Pathways from English Language to Academic Study

This Open Access Textbook will guide students through their English language to academic degree studies. Part one of this textbook is a guide for moving from ESL study to academic study at Portland State University. It includes the resources students will use to understand policies and processes governing their degree study and their transition to academic coursework. Part two focuses on how academic skills are used across various disciplines and is comprised of activities and assignments designed to practice these skills. Key elements include culture and expectations in an American university, transferring academic skills from ESL to content-specific academic courses, and helpful exercises to be academically successful.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: English language -- Grammar -- Study teaching English language -- Study teaching Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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Trigonometry and single phase AC generation for electricians

"To understand electrical theory, it is important to have a grasp of trigonometry. Whether we are talking about single phase or polyphase power, trigonometry is a key concept. This textbook, divided into three sections and provides easy-to-understand and enjoyable lessons on trigonometry, vectors, and AC generation for those training and working as electricians"--BC Campus website.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Electrical engineering -- Mathematics Trigonometry Electrical engineering
Resource Type:: e-book

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Try to cite the reference

In this exercise, learners are required to tell which one is a citation entry for a book/book chapter/article/map/news article.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Social sciences -- Authorship Bibliographical citations Psychology -- Authorship
Resource Type:: Others

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Twelve Ways to be a More Successful Learner

What do you really need to learn in life? How do you teach students to excel? What do successful learners do differently from others? What, in short, are their habits of mind?
Over the last two decades the learning sciences have begun to provide some powerful answers to these questions.
Here are some suggestions, drawing on research, to help you identify the kinds of learning habits likely to help you succeed. Imagine a clock-face. Think of each of the twelve points of its face as we look at twelve key aspects of learning.

Keywords:: Learning Study skills
Resource Type:: Others

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Understanding intellectual property

In this video, a team of students are suggested to digitize the works of the exhibition.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Intellectual property Humanities -- Research Copyright
Resource Type:: Video

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University 101 : study, strategize and succeed

"University 101: Study Strategize Succeed helps students to create a foundation for post-secondary studies by learning how to learn. By taking the time to read this book and work through the exercises included, students are investing in the skills that will support them in all of their classes and future learning. Successful students share a set of skills and habits in common. The good news is that these skills are not a secret

Keywords:: Textbooks Study skills
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University 101: Study, Strategize and Succeed

Welcome to university! Whether this is your first time in post-secondary education, or whether you are returning to studies, you’re arriving with some goals you want to achieve. Perhaps you are taking a focused program to lead you into your desired career. Perhaps you are exploring courses in different areas, providing a foundation for future specialization. Wherever you are in your journey, you find yourself in a learning environment that is different from one you have experienced before. A good foundation for university is learning how to learn. By taking the time to read this book and work through the exercises included, you are investing in the skills that will support you in all of your classes and future learning. Successful students share a set of skills and habits in common. The good news is that these skills are not a secret; anyone can learn the skills that support successful learning. By taking some time to learn proven study strategies, you will be able to reach your learning goals, and avoid the pitfalls that can take you off-track. Who is this book for? This book focuses on the skills you’ll need to be successful in undergraduate courses or other adult education classes. If you are: new to university studies returning to university after some time away a mature student an international student or a continuing student who wants to improve their current skills and strategies this book is meant to support you in your journey.

Keywords:: Study skills Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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Use information legally

In this video, the students are plan to submit their report to "Student Newspaper" and call the editor for advices.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Scholarly publishing Copyright
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Useful strategies to evaluate engineering information

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.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Engineering -- Research -- Methodology Engineering -- Research Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation
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Using HTC Vive Tutorial: How To Setup VR, Hand, Teleportation and Grabbing Object

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.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media and Computing
Keywords:: Unity (Electronic resource) Computer simulation Virtual reality Human-computer interaction
Resource Type:: Video

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Using Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology and Discrete Event Simulation to Reduce Patient Discharge Time in King Hussein Cancer Center

Short discharge time from hospitals increases both bed availability and patients and families satisfaction. In this study, the Six Sigma process improvement methodology was applied to reduce patients discharge time in a cancer treatment hospital. Data on the duration of all activities, from the physician signing the discharge form to the patient leaving the treatment room, were collected through patient shadowing. These data were analyzed using detailed process maps and cause-and-effect diagrams. Fragmented and unstandardized processes and procedures and a lack of communication among the stakeholders were among the leading causes of long discharge times. Categorizing patients by their needs enabled better design of the discharge processes. Discrete event simulation was utilized as a decision support tool to test the effect of the improvements under different scenarios. Simplified and standardized processes, improved communications, and system-wide management are among the proposed improvements, which reduced patient discharge time by 54 from 216 minutes. Cultivating the necessary ownership through stakeholder analysis is an essential ingredient of sustainable improvement efforts.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Management
Keywords:: Hospitals -- Administration Process control Six sigma (Quality control stard)
Resource Type:: Open (Access) Journal-Article

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Using secondary legal materials

In this exercise, learners are required to match legal resources with the contents.

Keywords:: Information resources Legal research
Resource Type:: Others

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VR Career Experience

The VR Career Experience is an immersive, interactive 360° video application that allows prospective apprentices to explore the various career paths and training methods offered at hundreds of apprenticeship training facilities in North America.
Experience firsthand the sights and sounds involved with being an HVACR Service Technician, Pipefitter/Steamfitter, Plumber, Sprinkler Fitter, and Welder while you are immersed in their environments. As a first-person user, you can control where you will go using gaze detection to literally “open the door” to the opportunities that await you in a pipe trades career.
With over 20 interactive 360° video scenes to explore, you can gain insider knowledge into the exciting world of the United Association’s apprenticeship training program.

Course related:: MM517 Human Resource Development
Keywords:: Vocational guidance
Resource Type:: Others

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Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics - Second Edition

Two dramatically different philosophical approaches to classical mechanics were proposed during the 17th – 18th centuries. Newton developed his vectorial formulation that uses time-dependent differential equations of motion to relate vector observables like force and rate of change of momentum. Euler, Lagrange, Hamilton, and Jacobi, developed powerful alternative variational formulations based on the assumption that nature follows the principle of least action. These variational formulations now play a pivotal role in science and engineering. This book introduces variational principles and their application to classical mechanics. The relative merits of the intuitive Newtonian vectorial formulation, and the more powerful variational formulations are compared. Applications to a wide variety of topics illustrate the intellectual beauty, remarkable power, and broad scope provided by use of variational principles in physics. This second edition adds discussion of the use of variational principles applied to the following topics: Systems subject to initial boundary conditions The hierarchy of the related formulations based on action, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, and equations of motion, to systems that involve symmetries Non-conservative systems. Variable-mass systems. The General Theory of Relativity. The first edition of this book can be downloaded at the publisher link.

Subjects:: Physics
Keywords:: Textbooks Mechanics
Resource Type:: e-book

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Vocal Techniques for the Instrumentalist - 2nd edition

Vocal Techniques, the course title used at many institutions, is essentially a voice class for instrumentalists, and is a required course for instrumental music education majors seeking all-level certification. Students take at least one Vocal Techniques course to learn proper singing technique along with basic pedagogy and can include teaching techniques as they apply to adolescent singers. The focus of the course is the development of the individual singing voice. This includes breathing, tone production, articulation, musicality and textual expression and understanding. Students also develop confidence in front of groups, improve their general vocal quality, and learn that a healthy voice serves them well in the general and performance classroom. The purpose of this text is to teach instrumental music education students about vocal production as it applies to solo singing. Beginning with a foundational understanding of breathing, singers will learn about the vocal instrument (anatomy), how to create clear, pleasant, tone (phonation and resonance), pronounce words clearly (articulation and diction) and how singing is similar, and different, from playing an external instrument. This is the first textbook to explore teaching voice as it directly pertains to playing an instrument.

Subjects:: Performing Arts
Keywords:: Singing -- Instruction study Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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Want to test your knowledge on Primary and Secondary Sources?

In this exercise, learners are required to distinguish the information belong to "primary sources" or "secondary sources". Primary information source are anything created at the time when the incident/event happened. They were created with the intention to record the incident/event. It could be a document, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, a diary, an artifact, and so on. Secondary information source is anything (e.g., documents, records, artifacts, objects, and so on) that discuss, relates, or refers another piece of information existing elsewhere.

Keywords:: Information resources Research -- Methodology Information literacy
Resource Type:: Others

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Was Roman Concrete Better?

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.

Subjects:: Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Concrete construction Roller compacted concrete Concrete -- Additives Concrete
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What Americans Agree on When It Comes to Health

We may not be as deeply divided as we think -- at least when it comes to health, says Rebecca Onie. In a talk that cuts through the noise, Onie shares research that shows how, even across economic, political and racial divides, Americans agree on what they need to live good lives -- and asks both health care providers and patients to focus on what makes us healthy, not what makes us angry.

Subjects:: Public Heath and Management of Health Care Services
Keywords:: Medical care Social medicine
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What If All US Health Care Costs Were Transparent?

In the US, the very same blood test can cost $19 at one clinic and $522 at another clinic just blocks away -- and nobody knows the difference until they get a bill weeks later. Journalist Jeanne Pinder says it doesn't have to be this way. She's built a platform that crowdsources the true costs of medical procedures and makes the data public, revealing the secrets of health care pricing. Learn how knowing what stuff costs in advance could make us healthier, save us money -- and help fix a broken system.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
Keywords:: Medical care -- Cost control Medical care Cost of
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What If We Digitally Empowered Community Health Workers?

Raj Panjabi's life work has been to support and employ community health workers in the country of Liberia, where he grew up. In this talk, the TED Prize winner expands his vision. Over the next three years, his nonprofit Last Mile Health will partner with Living Goods to get smartphones to community health workers in six countries in Africa, bringing quality care to more than 34 million people.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services
Keywords:: Smartphones Public health personnel Community health services
Resource Type:: Video

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What The US Health Care System Assumes about You

The US health care system assumes many things about patients: that they can take off from work in the middle of the day, speak English, have a working telephone and a steady supply of food. Because of that, it's failing many of those who are most in need, says Mitchell Katz, CEO of the largest public health care system in the US. In this eye-opening talk, he shares stories of the challenges low-income patients face -- and how we can build a better system for all.

Subjects:: Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
Keywords:: Medical care Poor -- Health hygiene
Resource Type:: Video

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