Books to Bench to Bedside: Informatics for Autism Research
May 31, 2006 - Isaac Kohane, Lawrence J. Henderson Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology; Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS/Children's Hospital
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a socio-cognitive disorder which has a high (up to 1% by some estimates) prevalence in our society. More controversially, ASD is reported to be on the increase. Less controversially, ASD is known to have a strong inherited component as well as an environmental component. And yet, despit
Creative Practice as Research
Dance, music, theatre, film, writing and more - showcasing a year of research, teaching and production from the Creative Practice and Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Plant Research International Aquaculture Research Group, University of Victoria Soybean Insect Research Information Center : SIRIC Evaluating How Our Students Think and Learn: Research Results from the Trenches What is Maine’s “Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative” (FBRI)? Ethics of Human Subject Research Statistics in Psychosocial Research: Measurement Books to Bench to Bedside Informatics for Autism Research Introduction to Methods for Health Service Research and Evaluation Statistics for Psychosocial Research: Structural Models 18.996 Topics in Theoretical Computer Science : Internet Research Problems (MIT) 4.285 Research Topics in Architecture: Citizen-Centered Design of Open Governance Systems (MIT) STS.467 Research Seminar in Deep Sea Archaeology (MIT) 9.95-A Research Topics in Neuroscience (MIT) HST.502 Survival Skills for Researchers: The Responsible Conduct of Research (MIT) 17.872 Quantitative Research in Political Science and Public Policy (MIT) What's the Impact? Research and Tourism in Antarctica 17.874 Quantitative Research Methods: Multivariate (MIT)
Plant Research International at Wageningen, the Netherlands, specialises in research in areas such as plant genetics and reproduction, crop protection, crop ecology and agrosystems. Its website provides details of research activities and agri-business develo
The Aquaculture Research Group at the University of Victoria was formed to study the rapid and wide-ranging development of aquaculture worldwide, which includes cultivation of algae/seaweed, molluscs (oysters and mussels), crustaceans (shrimp and crabs
SIRIC was established in 1969 by the Illinois Natural History Survey's Center for Economic Entomology and the Illinois Agricultural Research Station with the aim of compiling a database of the world's scientific and research lite
This PowerPoint presentation addresses research on the thinking and learning processes of students and how increased knowledge of these processes can be used to structure lectures in a manner that will change the way students learn. It covers methods for course redesign, classroom assessment techniques, ...
The Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative (FBRI), a collaboration between the University of Maine and other partners, is the largest research project in Maine’s history. FBRI addresses the pressing issues of our time: replacements for fossil fuels, renewable energy, green chemicals and creative uses of a sustainable resource--trees. The ultimate goal of FBRI is to build research infrastruc
Introduces students to the ethics of human subject research, including ethical theory and principles are introduced and followed by a brief history of research ethics.
Presents quantitative approaches to measurement in the psychological and social sciences.
May 31, 2006 - Isaac Kohane, Lawrence J. Henderson Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology; Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS/Children's Hospital
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a socio-cognitive disorder which has a high (up to 1% by some estimates) prevalence in our society. More controversially, ASD is reported to be on the increase. Less controversially, ASD is known to have a strong inherited component as well as an environmental component. And yet, despit
Introduction to Methods for Health Services Research and Evaluation provides an introduction to basic methods for undertaking research and program evaluation within health services organizations and systems.
Presents quantitative approaches to theory construction in the context of multiple response variables, with models for both continuous and categorical data.
We will discuss numerous research problems that are related to the internet. Sample topics include: routing algorithms such as BGP, communication protocols such as TCP, algorithms for intelligently selecting a resource in the face of uncertainty, bandwidth sensing tools, load balancing algorithms, streaming protocols, determining the structure of the internet, cost optimization, DNS-related problems, visualization, and large-scale data processing. The seminar is intended for students who are rea
In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale organizations of people making bottom-up decisions, such as with citizen-government affairs, voting corporate shareholders or voting members of global non-profits and labor unions. A working Open Source prototype created last semester will be used as the starting point, featuring collaborative filtering and electronic agent technology pioneered at the Media Lab. This course focuses on d
STS.467 examines the intellectual foundations of archaeology in the deep sea. The course explores the current convergence of oceanography, archaeology, and engineering which allows scientists to discover, survey, and excavate shipwrecks in deep water with robots and submarines. The course seeks to address the following questions: How are new devices best employed for archaeological work? How do new capabilities (e.g. higher frequencies, higher resolution, all digital data output) change operatio
This series of research talks by members of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences introduces students to different approaches to the study of the brain and mind.
Topics include:
From Neurons to Neural Networks
Prefrontal Cortex and the Neural Basis of Cognitive Control
Hippocampal Memory Formation and the Role of Sleep
The Formation of Internal Modes for Learning Motor Skills
Look and See: How the Brain Selects Objects and Directs the Eyes
How the Brain Wires Itself
This course is designed to provide graduate students and postdoctoral associates with techniques that enhance both validity and responsible conduct in scientific practice. Lectures present practical steps for developing skills in scientific research and are combined with discussion of cases. The course covers study design, preparation of proposals and manuscripts, peer review, authorship, use of humans and non-human animals in research, allegations of misconduct, and intellectual property.
This course provides students with a rigorous introduction to Statistics for Political Science. Topics include basic mathematical tools used in social science modeling and statistics, probability theory, theory of estimation and inference, and statistical methods, especially differences of means and regression. The course is often taken by students outside of political science, especially those in business, urban studies, and various fields of public policy, such as public health. Examples draw
Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth and one of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet. Despite the presence of glaciers, sea ice, permafrost, limited sunlight and fiercely cold temperatures, Antarctica still contains an abundance of resources, both living and non-living. These resources attract the attention of an increasing number of researchers and tourists from all over the world. How does their presence affect this land and its resources? In this lesson students will: Explore the
This course is the second semester in the statistics sequence for political science and public policy offered in the Political Science Department at MIT. The intellectual thrust of the course is a presentation of statistical models for estimating causal effects of variables. The model of an effect is a conditional mean (though we might imagine other effect). The notion of causality is the effect of one variable on another holding all else constant.
