Berlin, Seventh of November – History in Nonhistorical Fiction: a discussion and reading
In this series, an historian, a novelist and a literary critic explore the ways in which memory, literature and history shape contemporary Europe. Douglas Cowie is a novelist and lecturer in the English department at Royal Holloway, University of London. This event is part of the Jean Monnet 'Europe Beyond Governance' Lecture Series.
Empowering Women to Meet New Challenges, from National Development to Conflict Prevention and Post-C
The UN's newest agency - UN Women - has a global mandate to empower women and build gender equality. UN Women's first Executive Director and Under-Secretary General Michelle Bachelet will outline her vision for empowering women economically and politically to address challenges of poverty, inequality and exclusion and persistent violence against women both in conflict and non-conflict situations. She will focus in particular on peace and security as an area with particular obstacles to women's
Ecological Intelligence
Some people believe the planet would be better off, at least ecologically, if humans had never evolved. These speakers offer grim evidence that human activities threaten to poison much of life on earth, but they also suggest some new methods for treading more lightly, and perhaps reversing some deadly trends.
“We are in d
Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation in Context of Global Change
It is a complicated matter mapping the movement of pollution in the atmosphere, but Noelle Eckley Selin models not just the chemistry of the atmosphere as it absorbs emissions and responds to climate change, but its potential impact over time on human health and world economies. She takes a systems approach “to understanding
The Future Automotive System: The World That Changed The Machine
The world economic order has shifted considerably since 1990, when Daniel Roos and his coauthors wrote The Machine that Changed the World, the story of lean production in the auto industry. Once dominant as a global industry, car manufacturing “has undergone tremendous stress,” says Roos, and has now reached an “infle
Effective Practices for Recruitment, Mentoring, and Retention
With many years of academic and corporate workplace experience among them, these panelists share expertise and best practices for recruiting and retaining women to science and engineering careers.
Mildred Dresselhaus came to MIT to teach physics to engineering students. Although she received a scholarship funding women
Flood defences, the Southern Ocean, and whiter clouds
This week in the Planet Earth Podcast: why removing some man-made coastal flood defences might not be such a harebrained idea, what it's like studying gas exchange in the wilds of the Southern Ocean, and -- in what could be the first case of 'natural' geoengineering -- how forests could be whitening the clouds right above them.
Legatum Lecture : Dr. Noubar Afeyan of Flagship Ventures
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Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Flagship Ventures
Noubar Afeyan is Managing Partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a firm he co-founded in 2000 that focuses on inventing, launching, funding and building new ventures. He is also a Senior Lecturer at MIT where he has taught courses on entrepreneurship and innovation since 2000. In addition, he recently joined Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering as a visiting scholar.
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4.3 Focus–directrix definitions of the non-degenerate conics
Attempts to answer problems in areas as diverse as science, technology and economics involve solving simultaneous linear equations. In this unit we look at some of the equations that represent points, lines and planes in mathematics. We explore concepts such as Euclidean space, vectors, dot products and conics.
3.4 Further exercises
Attempts to answer problems in areas as diverse as science, technology and economics involve solving simultaneous linear equations. In this unit we look at some of the equations that represent points, lines and planes in mathematics. We explore concepts such as Euclidean space, vectors, dot products and conics.
Learning outcomes At the end of this unit you should be able to: contribute to the implementation of project activities; monitor, and recommend adjustments to, activities, resources and plans; maintain communications with project stakeholders; contribute to developing solutions to project problems. Original Copyright © 2007 The Open University. Now made available within the Creative Commons framewo Introduction The focus of this unit is on implementing a project. The first part considers how the activities of a project start. Although planning and action run side by side, it is often difficult to initiate action to progress the first tasks. Once things start to happen, the project enters a new stage. Management of the project changes, from stimulating the initial action to monitoring and reviewing it in order to control the project's progress. Control systems are essential in managing a project of a Acknowledgements Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence This presentation of the Y Call case study has been adapted from original OUBS teaching materials by Teresa Connolly (OpenLearn, Open Analyzing and Developing Role-Based Access Control Models Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should be able to: understand the common issues that arise in projects; practise project management tools and techniques; understand how to avoid some of the common problems that arise in project management; practise project management decisions; understand the interaction of the rational and the more subjective and affective elements of project management. Acknowledgements The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence. Author: Ramy Majouji All other materials included in this unit are derived from content originated at the Open University. McCormick's Alan D. Wilson on Pricing, Innovation and the 'Romance of Spice' Union Leaders vs. Republican Legislators: What's at Stake in the Standoff Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should be able to: make an informed judgement about whether or to what extent a financial market satisfies the conditions of an efficient market; identify the main factors that could detract from that efficiency. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made Introduction How do financial markets match providers with users, and how efficiently does the market determine prices? Financial markets can be notoriously volatile, and the stock market is possibly the most volatile of them all. This is after all the place where, depending on skill or on luck, investors either ‘make a killing’ or ‘lose their shirts’. But which does it depend on – skill or luck? Or does it depend on a mixture of the two? In this unit, you will find the answers to the
Role-based access control (RBAC) has become today's dominant access control model, and many of its theoretical and practical aspects are well understood. However, certain aspects of more advanced RBAC models, such as the relationship between permission usage and role activation and the interaction between inheritance and constraints, remain poorly understood. Moreover, the computational complexity of some important problems in RBAC remains unknown. In this thesis we consider these issues, develo
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In three years as CEO of spice maker McCormick, Alan D. Wilson has been charged with steering the company through difficult economic times and periods of extreme volatility in commodities prices. In a recent conversation with Knowledge@Wharton, Wilson discussed McCormick's efforts to expand internationally, why the increased popularity of Food Network and celebrity chefs has been a boon, and the company's aim to create a relationship with customers by playing up "the romance of spice."Author(s):
Over the past two weeks, public sector unions in Wisconsin and other states have staged protests against some legislators' attempts to restrict collective bargaining power -- in effect, taking away a union's right to negotiate over salary, seniority, pensions, health care and other work-related issues. The clash has set off debates about budget shortfalls, political posturing and most of all, the role that unions play in today's economy. Wharton professors Janice Bellace and Peter Cappelli offer
