Flooding Vulnerability of the Towns of Mabitac, and Santa Maria, Laguna, Philippines
By: UP Los BaƱos Presentation by Dr. Romeo Pati, Associate Professor, University of Rizal System, Philippines. Delivered during the International Conference on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for Food and Environmental Security, November 21-22, 2012 at SEARCA, UPLB, College, Laguna, Philippines.
How to Brush Your Teeth
An instructional video on how to brush your teeth in a proper way. (01:21)
Expedition 34/35 Crew Profile, Version 1
Learn more about Flight Engineers Chris Hasfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn of the International Space Station's Expedition 34/35 crew. The trio is set to launch in December to join their Expedition 34 crewmates -- Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin-- who have been aboard the station since Oct. 25.
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Fall 2012 Capstone Presentation - Group #1
On December 13th, students from the Fall Capstone class presented their projects. Taught this semester by Prof. Gavin Shatkin, the Capstone is a required course that all Master's students in the LPP and MURP programs take in their final semester. This semester's students worked with Street-Works and the City of Quincy on a plan for the redevelopment of the Quincy Center MBTA Station.
Colloquium Week 5: "Funding Conservation and Development in the Dominican Republic"
A Paper detailing fieldwork analysing funding for conservation and development in the Dominican Republic The debate over the best way to conserve biological resources while allowing for the development of communities that live around or in and work with those resources has long been contentious. The degree to which forest residents, subsistence farmers, and indigenous tribes degrade or protect biodiversity remains unresolved, as does the best way to merge the interests and needs of communities i
4.1 The rate of evolution I now want to move away from looking at the challenges facing all aquatic mammals, to examine very briefly what we know about the evolutionary history of the cetaceans. This group has travelled furthest from its terrestrial roots and made the fullest adaptation to life in the sea. Since mammals evolved on land, it has long seemed reasonable to suggest that the origin of whales must have involved an evolutionary transition from the land to the water. But how can we explain the fact that
3.2 Natural dives The physiology of the diving response can be studied in the laboratory, but investigating the behaviour of a diving mammal in its natural environment can be more of a problem. However, modern physiological techniques have made it possible to record continuously physiological variables (such as heart rate) and information on depth and position during the spontaneous dives in the wild that are part of the animal's normal behaviour. Most such findings show that the majority of an animal's dives
2.7 … and becoming more intelligent Intelligence is a useful commodity: it can help an animal to make sense of its environment and cope with the demands of social behaviour (including courtship and competition). Hunters tend to be relatively intelligent, and otters, pinnipeds and cetaceans, for example, share a playful curiosity that is characteristic of animals that catch other animals for a living. Some especially extravagant claims have been made for the intelligence of the toothed whales, largely because these animals use c
Introduction The versatility of mammals is a central theme of the āStudying mammalsā series of units, but surely no environment has tested that versatility as much as the rivers and oceans of the world. Mammals are essentially a terrestrial group of animals, but three major groups have independently adopted an aquatic way of life. In moving to the water, aquatic mammals have had to survive, feed and reproduce using a set of biological characteristics that evolved in association with life on land. This
Mathematical language
In our everyday lives we use we use language to develop ideas and to communicate them to other people. In this unit we examine ways in which language is adapted to express mathematical ideas. First published on Tue, 28 Jun 2011 as Author(s):
Modelling heat transfer The main teaching text of this unit is provided in the workbook below. The answers to the exercises that you'll find throughout the workbook are given in the answer book. You can access it by clicking on the link under the workbook. Click 'View document' to open the workbook (PDF, 0.4 MB). Pressing onwards Work through Sections 1.6 and 1.7 of the Calculator Book, using the method suggested above of glancing ahead-pressing on-glancing back, if you find it useful. A num 1 Overview A fundamental concept in mathematics is that of a function. Consider, for example, the function f defined by
This is an example of a real function, because it associates with a given real number x the real number 2x2 ā 1: it maps real numbers to real n Introduction This unit lays the foundations of the subject of mechanics. Mechanics is concerned with how and why objects stay put, and how and why they move. In particular, this unit ā Modelling static problems ā considers why objects stay put.
Please note that this unit assumes you have a good working knowledge of vectors. This is an adapted extract from the Open University course Author(s): First-order differential equations This unit introduces the topic of differential equations. The subject is developed without assuming that you have come across it before, but it is taken for granted that you have a basic grounding in calculus. In particular, you will need to have a good grasp of the basic rules for differentiation and integration. This unit is an adapted extract from the course Mathematical methods and Acknowledgements All materials included in this unit are derived from content originated at the Open University. 1.3: Summing vectors given in geometric form The following activity illustrates how the conversion
processes outlined in the preceding sections may come in useful. If
two vectors are given in geometric form, and their sum is sought in
the same form, one approach is to convert each of the vectors into
component form, add their corresponding components, and then convert
the sum back to geometric form. 1.2: Converting to geometric form You have seen how any vector given in geometric form, in
terms of magnitude and direction, can be written in component form.
You will now see how conversion in the opposite sense may be
achieved, starting from component form. In other words, given a
vector
aĀ =Ā a
1
iĀ +Ā a
2
j,
what are its magnitude |a| and direction Īø? The first part of this question is dealt with using
Pythagorasā Theorem: the magnitude of a v Acknowledgements All materials included in this unit are derived from content originated at the Open University.
Activity 15
