1.5.2 Late-onset multifactorial disorders
This Unit looks at three different uses of genetic testing: pre-natal diagnosis, childhood testing and adult testing. Such tests provide genetic information in the form of a predictive diagnosis, and as such are described as predictive tests. Pre-natal diagnosis uses techniques such as amniocentesis to test fetuses in the womb. For example, it is commonly offered to women over 35 to test for Down's syndrome. Childhood testing involves testing children for genetic diseases that may not become a p
1.5.1 Late-onset single-gene disorders
This Unit looks at three different uses of genetic testing: pre-natal diagnosis, childhood testing and adult testing. Such tests provide genetic information in the form of a predictive diagnosis, and as such are described as predictive tests. Pre-natal diagnosis uses techniques such as amniocentesis to test fetuses in the womb. For example, it is commonly offered to women over 35 to test for Down's syndrome. Childhood testing involves testing children for genetic diseases that may not become a p
1.11.1 Subject positions In her analysis, Blackman is identifying a pattern in Diana's talk and relating it to other similar methods of self-representation found in our culture. It is worth thinking through this in more detail. One key claim of discourse researchers is that language positions people – discourse creates subject positions. What does this mean? To speak at all is to speak from a position (remember the discussion of footing in the previous section). Further than this, the positions or slots in c
The Real and Complex Numbers: The Rational Numbers
Lawrence Baggett
Rational numbers are thought of as quotients k/n of integers. Fields are defined, and examples of fields are given.
Some
Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?
Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. To stand any chance of getting near to zero, nuclear weapons must be marginalised in military and security doctrines. That means creating international norms and, if feasible, agreements that until nuclear weapons are universally prohibited by treaty, their use will be treated as a crime against hu
Dr. Brian Angus on Tropical Medicine
Writer and medical historian Conrad Keating talks to Dr. Brian Angus, Director of the Wellcome Trust UK Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine in Oxford, about his interest in science and how this inspired him to work with infectious diseases in Africa. Dr Brian Angus originally worked with Professor Nick White in Thailand and joined the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine in 1993. In this wide-ranging discussion with the writer and medical historian Conrad Keating, Brian talks about his wor
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Metaphysics and Epistemology: what exists, what is its nature and how can we acquire knowledge of it?
018 Angular Momentum
Eighteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010
016 Composite Systems - Entanglement and Operators
Sixteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010
012 Angular Momentum and Motion in a Magnetic Field
Final lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
005 Further TDSE and the Position Representation
Fifth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
014 A Pair of Square Wells and the Ammonia Maser
Fourteenth Lecture in the Quantum Mechanics Course given in Hilary term 2010
008 The Harmonic Oscillator and the Wavefunctions of its Stationary States
Eighth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
009 Dynamics of Oscillators and the Anharmonic Oscillator
Ninth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
006 Wavefunctions for Well Defined Momentum, the Uncertainty Principle and Dynamics of a Free Partic
Sixth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - Péripéties dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie.
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille : 7ème Congrès National des Internes en Psychiatrie (CNIPsy). Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Session : Péripéties dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie.
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille – Sur la recherche en psychiatrie
Résumé : On pourrait croire la psychiatrie atteinte d’amnésie antérograde, oubliant à mesure les chemins qui l’ont conduite au présent. Et son histoire, elle la réécrit parfois avec une extraordinaire politisation sélective.<
Histoire du magnétisme - sept moments magnétiques de la Chine prédynastique à aujourd'hui - JM.C
Une conférence du cycle "le magnétisme aujourd’hui : du pigeon voyageur à la spintronique"
Histoire du magnétisme - sept moments magnétiques depuis la Chine prédynastique jusqu'à aujourd'hui
par John Michael Coey
Head-on train crash in Bangladesh
Several passengers killed and dozens injured as two passenger trains collide.
