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Abstract Thinking: An Introduction to Creative Thinking in Basic Design
This paper critically examines the nature of the dramatic increase in the number of students accepted in schools of architecture in Jordan, and the contradictory decrease in their artistic, creative, thought process, projects problem solving and other skills. The paper also reviews architectural curriculum and courses to identify weaknesses in handling the changes and ultimately within these constraints and in order to handle the students variable potentials, abilities and contradictions, certai
Author(s): Ameireh, O.M.
REINTERPRETING VIRTUAL HERITAGE
This paper describes the context and proposal for an alternative approach to the common pattern of application of digital tools in the area of cultural heritage, also know as Virtual Heritage (VH). It investigates and addresses arising issues in a digital case study developed to implement a theoretical framework and investigate how and if existing technology can support it.
Author(s): Affleck, Janice; Kvan Thomas
Internet Scout Project
The Reston Chlorofluorocarbon Laboratory of the US Geological Survey provides "provides analytical services for CFCs, sulfur hexafluoride, dissolved gases including nitrogen, argon, methane, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and helium, and administers the USGS contract for tritium/helium-3 dating." Scientists can learn about the USGS's research activities related to these services in Chesapeake Bay, Mirror Lake, Shenandoah National Park, and many other locations around the United States. Students and edu
Author(s): No creator set
Virtual Educational Resource for the Biosciences (VERB) - Eutherians
VERB is an online animal diversity resource designed to accompany undergraduate degrees in the Biosciences. In this package, entitled VERB Eutherians, the groups discussed are the living placental mammals. Contained are a series of web pages outlining the diversity of the eutherians from an evolutionary perspective. The topics of focus are phylogeny (evolutionary history) and functional anatomy, but subjects as wide as genetics, ecology, physiology, and developmental biology are discussed where
Author(s): Dr Helen Chatterjee, UCL
Technology Matters - making choices about the tools we use.
Why does technology matter? How often do we thing about the implications of our choices of one tool over another? What were the decisions that brought us to our current technological world?
In his new book Technology Matters, Professor David Nye of Warwick's School of Comparative American Studies poses a series of questions challenging us to think a little deeper about the tools and technology surrounding us. From the use (or non-use) of the wheel in North Africa to IMAX theatres at the Grand
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Hypertext Between Research and Teaching: An Experience in a Didactic Building Technology Laboratory
IPER (hypertext for the knowledge of building patrimony) is the result of a research developed with C.N.R. (National Research Institute). The aim of IPER is to provide the knowledge, the description and the management of one or more historical buildings for public or private institutions. IPER allowed us to improve our methodology of building analysis, covering various disciplinary fields, in two different systems. (1.) the first one, synthetic and suitable for a group of historical buildings, (
Author(s): Amirante, Isabella and Bosco, Antonio
AFFIRM images needed for import
This is a zip file containing images that you need for the AFFIRM Research Methods Question Bank. Download this file, along with the 'AFFIRM Instructions for Importing ....' and ' AFFIRM Research Methoods Question Bank'. Follow the instructions doc.
Author(s): Jill Taylor,Bob Rotherham,Chris Garbett
AFFIRM Instructions for Importing Research Methods Question Bank
Instructions for installing AFFIRM Research Methods Question Bank - a collection of 57 Research Methods questions covering 9 topics (Fallacies; Qualitative research; Referencing; Research Design; Sampling; Statistics; Surveys; Miscellaneous). These questions are available as a Blackboard VISTA import file. You need to download the zip files named ‘AFFIRM Research Methods Question Bank’ and ‘AFFIRM_images1’. Please also see ‘AFFIRM Instructions for Importing Research Methods Questionsâ€
Author(s): Jill Taylor,Bob Rotherham,Chris Garbett
Social Evolution: Cooperation and Conflict from Molecules to Society
Rick Michod, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Although the Darwinian explanation for the diversity of life is often characterized as "nature red in tooth and claw," this talk will discuss how recent research shows that cooperation, too, plays a fundamental role in evolution. Presented March 28, 2006.
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Foundations in evidence based practice
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online for downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Spring Semester 2010.
This module is taught on the Diploma/BSc in Nursing and covers an introduction to evidence-based practice; the nature of evidence; an introduction to the research process; reflective thinking and writing; portfolio development skills; searching/accessing information/literature; summarising literature; referencing literature sources; reviewing literature; an introduction to law
Author(s): University of Nottingham. School of Nursing Midwif
Evaluation techniques
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file.
As taught in Autumn Semester 2009/10
The 'Evaluation Techniques' module is one of the core modules taught on the Masters in Public Health which is offered by the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at The University of Nottingham. This resource includes an overview of the module, a recommended reading list that supports the module and 3 of the 7 lectures that are delivered.
Suitable for study at Masters L
Author(s): Myles Puja R. Dr
Challenging reality
A behind the scenes interview with Professor Christopher Barnatt, Director and Producer of a new TV documentary on what we perceive to be real, and what, if any, future lies ahead for us.
The TV documentary was televised in April 2009 and was based on a book written by Professor Christopher Barnatt in 1997, also entitled Challenging Reality, which focused on momentus change across history. The new television series developed this theme further, with input from numerous other experts at the Uni
Author(s): Barnatt C. J.:Associate Professor
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