Registrarism Ep.9 - Swine flu
The Registrar outlines what is being done to mitigate the effects of Swine Flu and why such media reports are anything but helpful.
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In this podcast, Dr Paul Greatrix reacts to reports in the media, suggesting universities could cancel Fresher Week in response to Swine Flu.
Violence and the media
Having presented a report to a Home Affairs Select Committee on knife crime, Professor Kevin Browne tackles the connection between on and off screen violence and in particular the way in which some violent films are even marketed to children.
Professor Browne is Professor of Forensic Psychology
Is there a link between what children watch and how violent they can become, and how significant is that link?
The day the music died
Based on his research for his paper 'The Software Slump', Professor Leyshon charts the progress of technology and the decline of the recording studio sector in the UK.
Professor Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography in the School of Geography at The University of Nottingham.
In this podcast Professor Andrew Leyshon explains his assertion that the recording studio sector is in a deep crisis.
Impact Campaign - An Introduction
Impact: The Campaign for Nottingham will raise £150 million in philanthropic support across five strategic themes over the next five years.
Our five themes encompass a series of high-impact projects, in the UK, Malaysia and China.
This video introduces the campaign in its
New course published: Information Literacy 1
TU Delft OpenCourseWare published a new course Information Literacy 1, the second part will follow soon. url: http://ocw.tudelft.nl/courses/information-skills/information-literacy-1/course-home/ Why this instruction? For your study you have been given a number of assignments. What are you going to do first? How are you going to tackle it? What do you need to know? And where can [...]
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CMU Energy Presentation: Smart Transportation
Stephen Smith is one of the many faculty experts at Carnegie Mellon University contributing to the work of the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. Smith, a research professor of robotics and director, Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory, discusses how "smart transportation" can help cities use less fuel.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at CMU leverages the expertise of more than 100 faculty from across the university to address several complex chal
Inspect-a-Gadget - Patch the Pink Dog!
Keith Baker from the Environmental Technology Centre talks us through how his gadget was able to sweeten wine without adding sugar and make cat food more palatable for the cats.
5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate Animation
Early elementary students will enjoy this animation of 5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate. This would be a great resource to use as an example for a writing and/or art project activity in the early childhood classroom. (0:42)
Week 5 Cursive Animation This Week @Minnesota: Sept. 28, 2012, health on campus Reuters Today: Xstrata backs Glencore bid The death of electric dreams? How practicable is it to apply Data Protection to activities involving Freedom of Expression? 3 Case Study: Debugging the Load Test - 07 | .NET Debugging for the Production Environment You may wish to watch the video using one of the high quality links on the right so the tool output in the case study is readable. Ever have a situation in which your load test isn't passing the SLA, or the test results simply "look wrong"? Even when your test hardware is exactly like your production hardware? Is the problem somewhere in the code or... maybe something no one else has considered? How do you troubleshoot this when - An Evaluation of the Influence of Interim Assessments on Grade 8 Student Achievement in Mathematics What's New with SharePoint Tools for Visual Studio 2012 In this interview, Xiaoying Guo, a Program Manager on the SharePoint tools team, shows us some of the new tools in Visual Studio for developing SharePoint 2010 & 2013 Apps and solutions. New tools include building Visual Web Parts for sandbox solutions, remote deployment of packages, and a list designer as well as new templates for building SharePoint 2013 apps. I'm a newbie to the new apps model, but Xiaoying helps me understand the differences as well as the flexibility this n Grid Computing with 256 Windows Azure Worker Roles In this interview I talk to Connected Systems MVP Alan Smith about using a lot of resources in Windows Azure. He shows a demo of using 256 cores to render images. Rendering 3D ray-traced animations is a task that requires massive compute power. Creating a 256 node render farm that is capable of producing high definition high quality 3D animations would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and take months to provision. Creating this environment in Windows Azure costs around $30 per hou Wealth Strategies: Stocks to "Re-Rally" in Q4
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THIS WEEK @MINNESOTA: Sept. 24-28. In this episode of the weekly video feature, we visit the health careers fair, get a free flu shot and learn how to know when you're sick enough to stay home from class.
Oct. 1 - Xstrata's board backs Glencore's takeover bid, Asia's factory sector struggles to shake off euro malaise and Europe stuns the U.S. in the Ryder Cup.
Oct. 1 - Major automakers have spent billions on developing electric cars, but as sales fall flat have they bet on the wrong technology? Julian Satterthwaite reports from the Paris Car Show.
This contribution by Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor and formerly President of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, presents an international perspective on the interface between Data Protection and freedom of expression. Peter Hustinx argues the proposed European Data Protection Regulation should avoid specific reference to journalism literature and art but should very clearly require Member States only provide freedom of expression exemptions from Data Protection to the exte
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A review of the literature pertaining to the effect and influence that interim assessments have on student achievement lacks quantitative data to determine the efficiency of their use in the […]
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Oct 2 - Raymond James' Jeff Saut says U.S. equities may see a small correction after the rally they've had, but there is still upside to stocks for the balance of the year. He likes the energy & tech sectors.
