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Electromagnetics and Applications

This course explores electromagnetic phenomena in modern applications, including wireless and optical communications, circuits, computer interconnects and peripherals, microwave communications and radar, antennas, sensors, micro-electromechanical systems, and power generation and transmission. Fundamentals include quasistatic and dynamic solutions to Maxwell's equations; waves, radiation, and diffraction; coupling to media and structures; guided waves; resonance; acoustic analogs; and forces, power, and energy.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Electromagnetism
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Materials Processing

This course is focused on physical understanding of materials processing, and the scaling laws that govern process speed, volume, and material quality. In particular, this course will cover the transport of heat and matter as these topics apply to materials processing.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Keywords:: Mass transfer Heat -- Transmission Transport theory Manufacturing processes Fluid mechanics
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Elements of Mechanical Design

This is an advanced course on modeling, design, integration and best practices for use of machine elements such as bearings, springs, gears, cams and mechanisms. Modeling and analysis of these elements is based upon extensive application of physics, mathematics and core mechanical engineering principles (solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, manufacturing, estimation, computer simulation, etc.).

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Engineering design Machine design
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A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB

A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB is specifically designed for students with no programming experience. However, students are expected to be proficient in First Year Mathematics and Sciences and access to good reference books are highly recommended. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems. The strategic goal of the course and book is to provide learners with an appreciation for the role computation plays in solving engineering problems. MATLAB specific skills that students are expected to be proficient at are: write scripts to solve engineering problems including interpolation, numerical integration and regression analysis, plot graphs to visualize, analyze and present numerical data, and publish reports.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: MATLAB Engineering mathematics
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Mechatronics

This course is an introduction to designing mechatronic systems, which require integration of the mechanical and electrical engineering disciplines within a unified framework. There are significant laboratory-based design experiences. Topics covered in the course include: Low-level interfacing of software with hardware; use of high-level graphical programming tools to implement real-time computation tasks; digital logic; analog interfacing and power amplifiers; measurement and sensing; electromagnetic and optical transducers; control of mechatronic systems.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Mechatronics
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Internal Combustion Engines

This course studies the fundamentals of how the design and operation of internal combustion engines affect their performance, efficiency, fuel requirements, and environmental impact. Topics include fluid flow, thermodynamics, combustion, heat transfer and friction phenomena, and fuel properties, with reference to engine power, efficiency, and emissions.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Internal combustion engines
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Numerical Fluid Mechanics

This course is an introduction to numerical methods and MATLAB®: Errors, condition numbers and roots of equations. Topics covered include Navier-Stokes; direct and iterative methods for linear systems; finite differences for elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations; Fourier decomposition, error analysis and stability; high-order and compact finite-differences; finite volume methods; time marching methods; Navier-Stokes solvers; grid generation; finite volumes on complex geometries; finite element methods; spectral methods; boundary element and panel methods; turbulent flows; boundary layers; and Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs).

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Fluid mechanics
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Journal of Annals of Bioengineering

The Journal of Annals of Bioengineering is a peer review open access journal which publishes original and substantial researches in all fields of engineering and science that explore biological problems. Specifically, the journal publishes papers on Biomechanics, Biomaterial, Rehabilitation engineering, Orthotics and prosthetics. Analytical and experimental original papers, surveys and book reviews may be submitted to the journal.

Subjects:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: Bioengineering
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Advances in Biomaterials Science and Biomedical Applications

This contribution book is a collection of reviews and original articles from eminent experts working in the multi- and interdisciplinary arena of biomaterials, ranging from their design to novel uses. From their personal experience, the readers can obtain a stimulating foresight on the potentialities of different synthetic and engineered biomaterials. 21 chapters have been organized to illustrate different aspects of biomaterials science. From advanced means for the characterization and toxicological assessment of new materials, through ‘classical’ applications in nanotechnology and tissue engineering, toward novel specific uses of these products, the volume wishes to give readers a view of the wide range of disciplines and methodologies that have been exploited to develop biomaterials with the physical and biological features needed for specific clinical and medical applications.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering
Keywords:: Biomedical materials Biomedical engineering
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Current Topics in Biochemical Engineering

Genetic and cellular technologies in life science have recently achieved remarkable progress, and thus the roles of biochemical engineers have also been changed to incorporate the use of new technology. Therefore, this book deals with current topics in biochemical engineering. The chapters of this book discuss research that has introduced artificial enzymes, kinetic models in bioprocessing, a small-scale production process, and production of energy with microbial fuel. These chapters offer novel ideas for the production of effective compounds and energy. Moreover, other research has introduced the production technology of stem cells and biomedical processes using nanoshells and extracellular vesicles. These chapters will provide novel ideas to produce effective compounds and develop therapies for various diseases.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering
Keywords:: Biochemical engineering
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Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology

This is an interdisciplinary, project-based course, centered around a design project in which small teams of students work closely with a person with a disability in the Cambridge area to design a device, piece of equipment, app, or other solution that helps them live more independently.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Rehabilitation Sciences, Computing, and Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Self-help devices for people with disabilities
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Neurotechnology in Action

This course explores cutting-edge neurotechnology that is essential for advances in all aspects of neuroscience, including improvements in existing methods as well as the development, testing and discussion of completely new paradigms. Readings and in-class sessions cover the fields of electrophysiology, light microscopy, cellular engineering, optogenetics, electron microscopy, MRI / fMRI, and MEG / EEG.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering and Biology
Keywords:: Neurotechnology (Bioengineering)
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Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

This course presents the fundamentals of digital signal processing with particular emphasis on problems in biomedical research and clinical medicine. It covers principles and algorithms for processing both deterministic and random signals. Topics include data acquisition, imaging, filtering, coding, feature extraction, and modeling. The focus of the course is a series of labs that provide practical experience in processing physiological data, with examples from cardiology, speech processing, and medical imaging. The labs are done in MATLAB® during weekly lab sessions that take place in an electronic classroom. Lectures cover signal processing topics relevant to the lab exercises, as well as background on the biological signals processed in the labs.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering and Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Biomedical engineering Signal processing Image processing
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Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics

This course develops and applies scaling laws and the methods of continuum and statistical mechanics to biomechanical phenomena over a range of length scales, from molecular to cellular to tissue or organ level.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering and Biology
Keywords:: Biomedical engineering Biomechanics
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Deep Learning in GeoSpatial Artificial Intelligence

Geospatial artificial intelligence sometimes referred to as geoAI is recently receiving so much attention. From large-scale projects to smaller projects. GeoAI can be referred to as using artificial intelligence with Geographical information system to analyse and produce solution-based predictions.

Subjects:: Computing and Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Keywords:: Geospatial data Geographic information systems Artificial intelligence
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Agile Software Development: It’s Implication for AI products and Developers

Software developments is advancing the technological world today. This changes have far more reaching implications in I.T industries such as Big data, Artificial intelligence and Agile Software development methodologies. Competition in the software development ecosystem has made developers to build software that are quick and reliable and often referred to as Agile development. Agile transformation is real and requires rethinking the business management, recruitment process and data strategy in a bid to stimulate disruptive solutions from within in-house development and deployment. AI product development would require rapid transformational changes within any organization. This can be accomplished by establishing specific operating models that permit development teams with the freedom of technology choice. This publication highlights some operating models that can be adopted to improve the success of AI products using Agile software development methodologies.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Agile software development
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CS229 - Machine Learning

This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: supervised learning (generative/discriminative learning, parametric/non-parametric learning, neural networks, support vector machines); unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, kernel methods); learning theory (bias/variance tradeoffs; VC theory; large margins); reinforcement learning and adaptive control. The course will also discuss recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Pattern perception -- Statistical methods Machine learning
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CS223A - Introduction to Robotics

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to basics of modeling, design, planning, and control of robot systems. In essence, the material treated in this course is a brief survey of relevant results from geometry, kinematics, statics, dynamics, and control. The course is presented in a standard format of lectures, readings and problem sets.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Robotics
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User Interface Design and Implementation

This course examines human-computer interaction in the context of graphical user interfaces. The course covers human capabilities, design principles, prototyping techniques, evaluation techniques, and the implementation of graphical user interfaces. Deliverables include short programming assignments and a semester-long group project. Students taking the graduate version also have readings from current literature and additional assignments.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Human-computer interaction User interfaces (Computer systems)
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Design and Analysis of Algorithms

This is an intermediate algorithms course with an emphasis on teaching techniques for the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, emphasizing methods of application. Topics include divide-and-conquer, randomization, dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, incremental improvement, complexity, and cryptography.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Algorithms
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Artificial Intelligence

This course includes interactive demonstrations which are intended to stimulate interest and to help students gain intuition about how artificial intelligence methods work under a variety of circumstances.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence
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Computer Systems Security

6.858 Computer Systems Security is a class about the design and implementation of secure computer systems. Lectures cover threat models, attacks that compromise security, and techniques for achieving security, based on recent research papers. Topics include operating system (OS) security, capabilities, information flow control, language security, network protocols, hardware security, and security in web applications.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Data protection Computer security Computer networks -- Security measures Data encryption (Computer science)
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Advances in Security in Computing and Communications

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT) and with the explosive worldwide growth of electronic data volume, and associated need of processing, analysis, and storage of such humongous volume of data, several new challenges are faced in protecting privacy of sensitive data and securing systems by designing novel schemes for secure authentication, integrity protection, encryption, and non-repudiation. Lightweight symmetric key cryptography and adaptive network security algorithms are in demand for mitigating these challenges. This book presents some of the state-of-the-art research work in the field of cryptography and security in computing and communications. It is a valuable source of knowledge for researchers, engineers, practitioners, graduates, and doctoral students who are working in the field of cryptography, network security, and security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). It will also be useful for faculty members of graduate schools and universities.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Data protection Computer security Computer networks -- Security measures Data encryption (Computer science)
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Face Recognition

Pattern recognition has gained significant attention due to the rapid explosion of internet- and mobile-based applications. Among the various pattern recognition applications, face recognition is always being the center of attraction. With so much of unlabeled face images being captured and made available on internet (particularly on social media), conventional supervised means of classifying face images become challenging. This clearly warrants for semi-supervised classification and subspace projection. Another important concern in face recognition system is the proper and stringent evaluation of its capability. This book is edited keeping all these factors in mind. This book is composed of five chapters covering introduction, overview, semi-supervised classification, subspace projection, and evaluation techniques.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: Human face recognition (Computer science)
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Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing

Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing offers guidelines on how mobile software services can be used in order to simplify the mobile users' life. The main contribution of this book is enhancing mobile software application development stages as analysis, design, development and test. Also, recent mobile network technologies such as algorithms, decreasing energy consumption in mobile network, and fault tolerance in distributed mobile computing are the main concern of the first section. In the mobile software life cycle section, the chapter on human computer interaction discusses mobile device handset design strategies, following the chapters on mobile application testing strategies. The last section, mobile applications as service, covers different mobile solutions and different application sectors.

Subjects:: Mobile Computing
Keywords:: Mobile computing
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Mobile Computing

Nowadays, mobile communication services are penetrating into our society at an explosive growth rate. Applications in mobile devices offer limitations, restriction, and guidelines on how mobile software can be used in order to simplify the mobile usage. As smart phones and tablets are becoming the daily computing device of choice for young ages, it is expected that mobile applications and services should be as flexible, high quality, and secure as the desktop systems. In this book, latest trends in mobile computing will be discussed. In the first section, cloud computing topics will be discussed widely into four chapters to give information to the reader about topics such as challenges, services, edge computing, and distributed clouds needed to integrate this promising issue into the next generation.

Subjects:: Mobile Computing
Keywords:: Mobile computing
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Evolutionary Algorithms

Evolutionary algorithms are successively applied to wide optimization problems in the engineering, marketing, operations research, and social science, such as include scheduling, genetics, material selection, structural design and so on. Apart from mathematical optimization problems, evolutionary algorithms have also been used as an experimental framework within biological evolution and natural selection in the field of artificial life.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Mathematical optimization Genetic algorithms Evolutionary programming (Computer science)
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Modern Information Systems

The development of modern information systems is a demanding task. New technologies and tools are designed, implemented and presented in the market on a daily bases. User needs change dramatically fast and the IT industry copes to reach the level of efficiency and adaptability for its systems in order to be competitive and up-to-date. Thus, the realization of modern information systems with great characteristics and functionalities implemented for specific areas of interest is a fact of our modern and demanding digital society and this is the main scope of this book. Therefore, this book aims to present a number of innovative and recently developed information systems. It is titled "Modern Information Systems" and includes 8 chapters. This book may assist researchers on studying the innovative functions of modern systems in various areas like health, telematics, knowledge management, etc. It can also assist young students in capturing the new research tendencies of the information systems' development.

Subjects:: Environmental Sciences and Computing
Keywords:: Medical informatics Knowledge management Management information systems
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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a potent buzzword and happening technology which has greatly impacted the lifestyle of every human being either directly or indirectly and is shaping the future of tomorrow. In fact, AI is fast becoming an intrinsic part of our daily life and is not confined to university research labs, even if remarkable progress has been made in this domain. The benefit of this phenomenon is widely recognized in diversified areas, ranging from medicine to security to consumer applications and business, and resulting in improvements in the quality of life of humankind. Every new disruptive technology has its own pros and cons and AI is no exception to this rule. Privacy, data protection, and the rights of individuals pose social and ethical challenges.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence
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New Advances in Machine Learning

The purpose of this book is to provide an up-to-date and systematical introduction to the principles and algorithms of machine learning. The definition of learning is broad enough to include most tasks that we commonly call “learning” tasks, as we use the word in daily life. It is also broad enough to encompass computers that improve from experience in quite straightforward ways. The book will be of interest to industrial engineers and scientists as well as academics who wish to pursue machine learning. The book is intended for both graduate and postgraduate students in fields such as computer science, cybernetics, system sciences, engineering, statistics, and social sciences, and as a reference for software professionals and practitioners. The wide scope of the book provides a good introduction to many approaches of machine learning, and it is also the source of useful bibliographical information.

Course related:: COMP4432 Machine Learning
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Machine learning
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Machine Learning

Machine learning techniques have the potential of alleviating the complexity of knowledge acquisition. This book presents today’s state and development tendencies of machine learning. It is a multi-author book. Taking into account the large amount of knowledge about machine learning and practice presented in the book, it is divided into three major parts: Introduction, Machine Learning Theory and Applications. Part I focuses on the introduction to machine learning. The author also attempts to promote a new design of thinking machines and development philosophy. Considering the growing complexity and serious difficulties of information processing in machine learning, in Part II of the book, the theoretical foundations of machine learning are considered, and they mainly include self-organizing maps (SOMs), clustering, artificial neural networks, nonlinear control, fuzzy system and knowledge-based system (KBS). Part III contains selected applications of various machine learning approaches, from flight delays, network intrusion, immune system, ship design to CT and RNA target prediction. The book will be of interest to industrial engineers and scientists as well as academics who wish to pursue machine learning. The book is intended for both graduate and postgraduate students in fields such as computer science, cybernetics, system sciences, engineering, statistics, and social sciences, and as a reference for software professionals and practitioners.

Course related:: COMP4432 Machine Learning
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Machine learning
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GeRDI – A Generic Research Data Infrastructure

The advent of data intensive science has fueled the generation of digital scientific data. Undoubtedly, digital research data plays a pivotal role in transparency and re-producibility of scientific results as well as in steering the innovation in a research process. However, the main challenges for science policy and infrastructure projects are to develop practices and solutions for research data management which in compliance with good scientific standards make the research data discoverable, citable and accessible for society potential reuse. The talk will present GeRDI - the Generic Research Data Infrastructure - which is such a research data management initiative targeting long tail content that stems from research communities belonging to different domains. It provides a generic and open software which connects research data infrastructures of communities to enable the investigation of multidisciplinary research questions.

Keywords:: Science -- Data processing Research -- Data processing Information storage retrieval systems
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Open Science and the role of Open Educational Resources

The seminar defines as Open Science practices and processes in all scientific disciplines that foster participation and collaboration, accessibility and reuse, transparency and verifiability in science. This is linked to the use and promotion of an open web and the provision of infrastructures for scholarly research, teaching and learning. Open Science also promotes sustainable impact, both transdisciplinary in the science system as well as in politics, business, culture, and public life. Open Science is rooted in the tradition of established principles of good scientific practice. The goal is to critically reflect traditional scientific culture and to transfer it into the present era of linked-up research. Based upon experiences made in the EduArc project, the talk will place the emphasis on open educational resources and challenges to fully integrate them into teaching practices at universities.

Keywords:: Communication in science Communication of technical information Reproducible research Open educational resources Open access publishing
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Welcome to ANA101x: What is this course about?

An overview of the MOOC course: Human Anatomy ANA 101x, which featured on a real-life stroke case scenario.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human anatomy
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Customer Relationship Management: A Multifaceted Concept

This eBook is designed for learning customer relationship management. Each chapter includes some exercises, concept-check questions and challenge questions for learning the theories.

Subjects:: Marketing
Keywords:: Customer relations -- Management Marketing
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Clinical Neurology: Guest Lecture by Dr. Richard Li

Clinical Neurologist, Dr Richard Li, explains the importance of human anatomy knowledge when handling acute stroke cases in the hospital setting.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human anatomy Cerebrovascular disease Cerebrovascular disease -- Treatment
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Overview of the spinal cord

An overview of the spinal cord offering an illustration of how it works in controlling body locomotion and mediate reflexes.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Spinal cord Spinal cord -- Anatomy
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Neuron structure

You will learn the basic structure of neuron.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Nervous system Neurons
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Location of the heart (affiliated readings)

This session presents the position and orientation of the heart in the thorax.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Heart -- Anatomy Heart
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Location of the heart

The video illustrates the position and orientation of the heart in the thorax.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Heart -- Anatomy Heart
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Physician's Case Summary

A summary of a stroke patient case provided by the attending physician, which described the case situation during the hospital stay, including assessments and interventions, and follow-ups with various healthcare professionals for rehabilitation.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Cerebrovascular disease Cerebrovascular disease -- Rehabilitation
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Finding Research Analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence Analysts

How to use Bloomberg to search for business and industry reports

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Business Corporations Corporations -- Finance
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Finding Environmental, Social & Governance Analysis

How to use Bloomberg to find data related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG)

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Corporations -- Investor relations Social responsibility of business Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Collecting Mergers and Acquisitions Data

How to use Bloomberg to get information on mergers and acquisitions

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Consolidation merger of corporations
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Finding Cost of Capital and Capital Structure

How to use Bloomberg to find data needed for corporate finance

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Corporations -- Finance
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Collecting Economic Statistics

How to use Bloomberg to gather key macroeconomic indicators

Subjects:: Economics
Keywords:: Economics Economic indicators Social sciences -- Statistics
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Basic Analysis of Risk and Return of a Bond

How to use Bloomberg to search fixed income data

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Investment analysis Bonds
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Searching Companies based on Specific Criteria

How to use Bloomberg to screen companies by specific criteria

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Investments Stocks Corporations -- Finance Equity
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Finding Spot Rate, Forward Rate and Market Forecast of Currency

How to use Bloomberg to collect foreign exchange data

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Money market Foreign exchange Foreign exchange rates
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Finding historical stock price, market index data, risk-free rate for Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

How to use Bloomberg to collect equity and market data

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Stocks Corporations -- Finance Capital market
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Bloomberg Video Tutorial: Finding Dividend Payment, Dividend Growth Rate, Cost of Capital for Distributed Dividend Model

How to use Bloomberg to retrieve company financial data

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Financial statements Corporations -- Finance Corporation reports
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Organization of human body (affiliated readings)

A summary of a stroke patient case provided by the attending physician, which described the case situation during the hospital stay, including assessments and interventions, and follow-ups with various healthcare professionals for rehabilitation.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy
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Organization of human body

In this video, you can see how our human body is built from the tiny atom to the human being.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy
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Major muscles of the upper limbs (affiliated readings)

It introduces the characteristics, locations and actions of major muscles of the upper limbs, particularly the Biceps brachii and the Deltoid.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Arm Human anatomy Muscles
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Human Anatomy ANA101x (Selected Resources)

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Major muscles of the upper limbs

In this video, we use the biceps brachii and the deltoid muscles as an example to illustrate the important structures of a skeletal muscle.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Muscles Musculoskeletal system
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Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D. - The power of peripheral vision in strategic thinking

Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D!

Learn BETTER. Learn FASTER. Learn MORE than you are used to.

To learn more about the idea of the “ecosystem” that we built around the FOCUSED philosophy and its accompanying 7 colourful dice framework, please visit the FOCUSED homepage.

Most problems, issues, and challenges remain unsolved because we end up resorting to our past habitual attempts without being mindful of new ways of thinking and new ways of doing. This video will showcase an innovative new strategic thinking framework that is designed to make you think more deeply and peripherally about your organization's unsolved problems, and in the process, open up alternatives not contemplated before.

This video illustrates the F.O.C.U.S.E.D. Dice framework, to help open your thinking about complex issues. Each letter represents different key behaviors:

"F" - Bring Fresh Perspective

"O" - Think, feel and act like an Owner/ Manager

"C" - Show Connected-thinking

"U" - Have a Sense of Urgency

"S" - Show Team SPIRIT

"E" - Always Engage

"D" - Exercise Deliberate Practice

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Problem solving Dice games
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All Gone Well Done - Episode 5

Here comes to the last episode! Let's check out whether they can realize the unfinished plan of Ah On.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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All Gone Well Done - Episode 4

In order to realize the unfinished plan of Ah On, some of his friends conduct the interview, some of them responsible for the on-site investigation while some of them do the background research. Do you want to know what are they going to do? Let’s check it out!

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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All Gone Well Done - Episode 3

There are many strange things happened in the old building, is it a trick played by the developers? Let’s continue the story to see what happened on the 5 young people.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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All Gone Well Done - Episode 2

In facing the developer hegemony, Ah Bao’s convenient store is being forced to relocate. His best friend, Ah On gave up the opportunity to study aboard and insisted to stay in Hong Kong and film a documentary about the reconstruction of the old district. Why did he give up the study? Let’s find out the story of Ah On.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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All Gone Well Done - Episode 1

In the age of information, everyone is easy to be satisfied with the so-called "facts". However, a young man, Ah On believes that the truth-seeking spirit just like playing a trick, you can only one-side of the "truth". Let's check out whether the buddies of Ah On have this truth-seeking spirit or not.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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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 Information Check Point

This video is about the basics techniques of evaluating information.

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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The Amazing Journey of Information

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

Keywords:: Information literacy -- Study teaching (Higher)
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At University, Learning Is Inquiry

This video is about 'what is learning?' at the university.

Keywords:: Study skills Learning Information literacy
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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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Free Online Course: Six Sigma: Define and Measure from edX | Class Central

An introduction to the Six Sigma methodology and DMAIC cycle for process improvement with a focus on the Define and Measure phases.

Subjects:: Management
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A Lean Six Sigma framework to enhance the competitiveness in selected automotive component manufacturing organisations

This article investigates the integration of Lean and Six Sigma tools as a unified approach to continuous improvement and develops a Lean Six Sigma framework for selected automotive component manufacturing organisations in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa.

Subjects:: Management and Business Information Technology
Keywords:: Production management Automobile supplies industry Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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Six Sigma Belt Level Rankings - Lean Six Sigma Online Certification: Training at Purdue University

Get to know the six sigma belt level rankings so you can build skills that will help your company function more smoothly and advance your career.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Total quality management Organizational effectiveness Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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ESD.60 Lean/Six Sigma Processes

Students of this course will develop a broad understanding of Lean/Six Sigma principles and practices, build capability to implement Lean/Six Sigma initiatives in manufacturing operations, and learn to operate with awareness of Lean/Six Sigma at the enterprise level. All course materials are organized around a common "single-point lesson" (SPL) format, with some of the SPLs provided by the instructor and guests and with some developed and delivered by student teams.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Quality control Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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16.660J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods (MIT)

This course covers the fundamental principles, practices and tools of Lean Six Sigma methods that underlay modern organizational productivity approaches applied in aerospace, automotive, health care, and other sectors. It includes lectures, active learning exercises, a plant tour, talks by industry practitioners, and videos. One third of the course is devoted to a physical simulation of an aircraft manufacturing enterprise or a clinic to illustrate the power of Lean Six Sigma methods. The course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Industrial efficiency Lean manufacturing Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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Open (Access) Journal-Article

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

Presentation

Express path to interoperable solutions – Case of the Oncology Institute of Vojvodina, Serbia

This video was recorded at CeGD eGovernance Academy Seminar Series (SEeHealth): The Roadmap from Concept to Practice, Ljubljana 2010. The key of mutual integration of health care institutions lies in their interoperability, gathering and common utilization of data by different applications. Seemingly, imperceptible and smooth applications' integration enables an efficient mutual linkage of all departments within a single health care institution as well as horizontal and vertical linkage of more health care institutions, all with the aim of improvement of health and quality of patient's life. Health care system quality improvement needs a continuous rationalization of resources funds, which leads towards optimization of business processes and availability of all necessary information in the shortest possible period. All necessary information and data on patients must be available independently on location or time of such a necessity. The greatest obstacles for interoperability represent heterogeneous applications. Such heterogeneity can be presented by the fact that they were written in various program languages, that they are intended for utilization at different types of computers or the fact that they use various communication networks and data transfer methods. IT managers in hospitals must decide how to contribute to cross‐organizational integration and what strategy and means to choose for achieving interoperability. If a system is poor in its interoperability, any increasing functions or little changes could stop its working properly. Interoperability must be ensured at technical, semantic and process levels but also in a legislative level, where all recommendations for legal and lawful solutions are given, which remove the most frequent obstacles – human and bureaucratic factors. The Oncology Institute of Vojvodina as a referent center for oncology and a center for medical informatics signed its own Integrated hospital and business information system. The information system at the IOV consists of the following modules: 1. hospital‐clinical IS 2. laboratory IS 3. pharmaceutical IS 4. radiological IS 5. invoicing (accounting) IS 6. business IS 7. managerial IS All of these modules are mutually optimally integrated, and their interoperability at the level of communicational protocols (HL7, DICOM, internal interface), semantics (the same code‐records, rules) and legislative level (the same accounting calculations) enables the user to see all these complex modules as one system. Thus, we created necessary preconditions for our integration into information society, which is a 21st century strategy at the state level.

Subjects:: Health Sciences, Management, and Computing
Keywords:: Health services administration -- Data processing Management information systems Health services administration -- Computer networks
Resource Type:: Presentation

Open (Access) Journal-Article

Applying DMAIC Methodology to Reduce Defects of Sewing Section in RMG: A Case Study

This work walks around the use of DMAIC methodology of six sigma to lessen the defect rate in sewing section of FCI (BD) LTD. Throughout five phases of DMAIC methodology, named Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control, this approach minimizes defects analytically. In different phases, different types of six sigma tools were exercised.

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

Others

IBUS330 E-Portfolio

IBUS 330 is a three-credit, upper-division core course for the BSBA degree and a prerequisite for all advanced International Business courses. In addition to providing an introduction to the field it also includes a major emphasis on culture. As a part of a multi-year process of continual development and improvement, the current course redesign of the writing component specifically addresses a major problem and criticism of online courses; namely the lack of any significant writing component in the curriculum. The continual development of writing and several enhancements to address the other major problems/criticisms of online mega courses is addressed in this report.

Subjects:: Management and English language
Keywords:: Business education
Resource Type:: Others

Presentation

ERP-systems for SMEs in Ukraine, Best Practices

This video was recorded at Workshop on Advanced IT Solutions and Competitiveness of SMEs, Lviv 2006. It is generally recognized that the competitiveness of SMEs in the present-day business environment ultimately relies upon effective implementation of the most up-to-date information technologies. However, the Ukrainian IT space is characterized with highly noticeable information gap between IT-saturated export-oriented software development companies and ordinary businesses or governmental agencies. The seminar has provided perfect platform for the interaction between local SMEs, communicating their IT needs, and IT service providers like Intellias, briefing on their enterprise-based IT offerings. The seminar has assembled insightful speakers from Ukrainian and international IT companies, as well as representatives from research institutions, consulting firms and IT experienced SMEs. The case studies from Western Ukrainian companies, possessing experience in implementation of IT solutions in industrial process, have illustrated emerging difficulties in aligning IT automated process with qualifications and professional level of the involved personnel. The practical aspects of introducing ERP systems for optimization of production process have been presented by Vitaly Pyasetsky (Lvivkholod public corporation) and Andriy Tsehelyk (Enzyme joint-stock company). The discussion has further focused on the international experience of the implementation of the information technologies as well as networking and partnership practices. Valuable contributions to the topic has been made by Maria-Luisa Sanseverino E4 Project Coordinator from Centro Ricerche Fiat and Patric Sitek from Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science. Particular emphasis has been placed on the E4 Project: Extended Enterprise Management in Enlarged Europe including collaboration initiatives and close involvement of the Eastern European enterprises within its framework. The discussion has been reinforced by the case study on Ivano Frankivsk business portal, assembling best practices from abroad business development agencies.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Enterprise resource planning Small business Ukraine Management information systems
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Industry 1: Managing Richly Connected Information

This video was recorded at 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Athens 2006. We examine research issues that arise when most information items in an enterprise can be linked to each other via short paths, implicit or explicit. In such high-recall settings, the treatment of metadata management, indexing and ranking needs new attention. Additional issues arise as to the best way to handle updates to the connections, whether on or off the transaction path. Even traditional techniques, such as classification and clustering of documents, which stand to benefit from the extra information provided by the so-called network of meaning, need to be reexamined for how best to exploit the extra information. The talk ends with an examination of some promising avenues for using high recall as a driver for the next wave of business process automation

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Information resources management Management information systems
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

OntoNaviERP: Ontology-supported Navigation in ERP Software Documentation

This video was recorded at 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Karlsruhe 2008. The documentation of Enterprise Research Planning (ERP) systems is usually (1) extremely large and (2) combines various views from the business and the technical implementation perspective. Also, a very specific vocabulary has evolved, in particular in the SAP domain (e.g. SAP Solution Maps or SAP software module names). This vocabulary is not clearly mapped to business management terminology and concepts. It is a well-known problem in practice that searching in SAP ERP documentation is difficult, because it requires in-depth knowledge of a large and proprietary terminology. We propose to use ontologies and automatic annotation of such large HTML software documentation in order to improve the usability and accessibility, namely of ERP help files. In order to achieve that, we have developed an ontology and prototype for SAP ERP 6.0. Our approach integrates concepts and lexical resources from (1) business management terminology, (2) SAP business terminology, (3) SAP system terminology, and (4) Wordnet synsets. We use standard GATE/KIM technology to annotate SAP help documentation with respective references to our ontology. Eventually, our approach consolidates the knowledge contained in the SAP help functionality at a conceptual level. This allows users to express their queries using a terminology they are familiar with, e.g. referring to general management terms. Despite a widely automated ontology construction process and a simplistic annotation strategy with minimal human intervention, we experienced convincing results. For an average query linked to an action and a topic, our technology returns more than 3 relevant resources, while a naïve term-based search returns on average only about 0.2 relevant resources.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Enterprise resource planning Software documentation Ontologies (Information retrieval)
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Linked Data at The New York Times: The First 161 Years

This video was recorded at 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Boston 2012. The New York Times committment to Linked Data began over 160 years ago. Starting in 1851, The New York Times has always catalogued its archival articles using a controlled vocabulary of people, places, organizations and descriptors. In 2009 The New York Times started publishing this vocabulary as linked data using semantic web standards. In 2011 The Times announced the launch of several RESTful Semantic APIs. And in late 2012 and early 2013, The Times will migrate its entire process for vocabulary management to a system designed around the principles of Linked Data. In my remarks, I will survey the history of Semantic publishing at The New York Times, outline our semantic strategy, detail the business-case for linked data at The Times and provide an in-depth explanation of our new vocabulary management system.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Linked data New York times
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Using Data Mining Techniques to Address Critical Information Exchange Needs in Disaster Affected Public-Private Networks

This video was recorded at 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Washington 2010. Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities. A critical problem in a crisis situation is how to efficiently discover, collect, organize, search and disseminate real-time disaster information. In this paper, we address several key problems which inhibit better information sharing and collaboration between both private and public sector participants for disaster management and recovery. We design and implement a web based prototype implementation of a Business Continuity Information Network (BCIN) system utilizing the latest advances in data mining technologies to create a user-friendly, Internet-based, information-rich service and acting as a vital part of a company's business continuity process. Specifically, information extraction is used to integrate the input data from different sources; the content recommendation engine and the report summarization module provide users personalized and brief views of the disaster information; the community generation module develops spatial clustering techniques to help users build dynamic community in disasters. Currently, BCIN has been exercised at Miami-Dade County Emergency Management.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

The Cognitive Dissonance of Living in a world of "Big Data"

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Big data -- Social aspects Big data
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Linked Data and APIs

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Linked data Application program interfaces (Computer software)
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

COIN services and innovation

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Enterprise application integration (Computer systems) Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems Information resources management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

COIN System Demos

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Enterprise application integration (Computer systems) Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems Information resources management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

SEEKDA as IT Multiplier: The Web Services Portal

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Enterprise application integration (Computer systems) Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems Information resources management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Usage of Integrated Services in the industry

his video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Enterprise application integration (Computer systems) Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems Information resources management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Content as basis for Social Connectness …as basis for better User Experience

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies. Detailed information can be found here.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Online social networks Computer software -- Development -- Social aspects Computer networks -- Social aspects Social networks
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Media Stream

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies. Detailed information can be found here.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Data mining Real-time data processing
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Publishing and Consuming Linked Sensor Data

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies. Detailed information can be found here.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Crowd funding Technological innovations Industrial management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Courseware

ESD.10 Introduction to Technology and Policy

This course explores perspectives in the policy process - agenda setting, problem definition, framing the terms of debate, formulation and analysis of options, implementation and evaluation of policy outcomes using frameworks including economics and markets, law, and business and management. Methods include cost/benefit analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, and system dynamics. Exercises include developing skills to work on the interface between technology and societal issues; simulation exercises; case studies; and group projects that illustrate issues involving multiple stakeholders with different value structures, high levels of uncertainty, multiple levels of complexity; and value trade-offs that are characteristic of engineering systems. Emphasis on negotiation, team building and group dynamics, and management of multiple actors and leadership.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Policy sciences -- Economic aspects Political planning -- Economic aspects
Resource Type:: Courseware

Presentation

COIN meets Science 2.0

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies. Detailed information can be found here.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Information resources management Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Semantic Web Services Applications

This video was recorded at REASE. This is a one-hour video recording of the presentation of John Domingue at the First Asian Autumn School on the Semantic Web. It comprises two videos synchronized with the slides (requires Flash) or the videos alone. Table of Contents: Semantic Web Services: Application Areas Contents DIP DIP Consortium Supporting Emergency Planning for Essex County Council Essex County Council Emergency Planning Context Emergency planning scenario eMerges Ontologies Generic Application Structure Demonstration of Emergency Planning (GIS) Prototype V1 EMerges Prototype Architecture SWS and Business Process Modelling Super Project SUPER Consortium Motivation Querying the Process Space The Critical IT / Process Divide What Are My Services? What are my services? Matching Activities and Port Types Based on Semantics Supporting Business Users Better Matching Model Representations & Semantics The SUPER Stack Modelling Stack Telecommunications Solution Map Content on Demand Digital Rights Management & Content Procurement Modelling Stack Business Process Notations Modelling Stack Programming Model Deploying Applications Business Protocols Modelling Stack WSMO Top Level Notions The SUPER Trinity SUPER Methodology SUPER Architecture SUPER Ontology Stack Super Demo Context Prototype Scenario Digital Asset Management BPMN Service/Process Catalogue Super Demo Video

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Semantic integration (Computer systems) Semantic Web
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

Wego s.r.l.

This video was recorded at Transnational ICT and Security Technology Opportunities, Ljubljana 2007. Wego works in the e-government sector. Its activities consist of consulting and software development for public administration entities, and especially of: business process and administrative proceedings engineering; front end solutions development; electronic document management (EDM).

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Information resources management Management information systems Internet in public administration
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World's Brains on your Innovation Challenges

This video was recorded at MIT World Series: Back to the Classroom 2009. Cooperation may be making us "a little bit too nice" when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there's nothing like competition for injecting energy into the process of solving key innovation problems, whether in business or society. Murray is convinced competition make ventures "more effective, more global, more inclusive and more democratic," all important dimensions for business in a flattening world. She describes the rapidly expanding R&D expenditures of India and China, including the vast numbers of Ph.D.s these nations are producing in science and engineering. The corporate sector has found building global R&D organizations and collaborations difficult. In this challenging environment, where the advantage goes to those firms snagging the best scientists, Murray believes "prizes are complementary mechanisms" for attracting global talent. Just like historic rivalries among great artists (Nb., Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese), or the race to discover the structure of DNA, "fierce competition" can yield "dramatic productivity" and innovation, especially when the right rewards are at stake. Murray cites the 18th century competition to invent a mechanism for determining a ship's longitude, which offered a 20 thousand-pound prize. She jumps to the present, with the X Prize Foundation and its various competitions to solve engineering challenges and societal problems, such as the three-person reusable spaceship, and a 100-mpg car -- each with a $10 million prize purse. But it's not just the money. Recent studies show that prizes prove alluring when they focus efforts and resources on a problem that people are already studying, offering fame and "putting fun back into innovation." The fascination skews rational calculations, with competitors often spending well beyond the amount offered to the winner. Corporations should adopt the prize mechanism, believes Murray, to help generate new ideas (such as new applications for Google's phone); or to help solve very specific problems. Campus competitions are up markedly, she notes, which might be a distraction for students at places like MIT. Start small and inside the organization first, creating a shared bulletin board and offering small prizes, she advises, which will "generate energy." Then take competition beyond the company. And don't forget, "the work must be fun" in order to "get a richer set of people to participate.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Competition
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

The Innovation Economy: How Technology Is Transforming Existing Industries and Creating New Ones

This video was recorded at MIT World Series - 2002 TR100 Symposium. This session provides a preview of what's new since The Innovator's Dilemma. Most people are convinced that the process of innovation is inherently afflicted by random events. While this is undoubtedly true, Professor Christensen has come to believe that innovation is much less random than many have supposed. In his talk, he describes the variables that affect the probability of success, which management can capably understand and control.

Subjects:: Management and Business Information Technology
Keywords:: Technological innovations Technological innovations -- Management
Resource Type:: Presentation

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