Convex optimization I : EE364A : Linear systems and optimization
This lecture course on convex optimisation is made available as part of Stanford Engineering Everywhere, an initiative from Stanford University licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States licence. The course introduces a special class of mathematical optimisation problems, convex optimisation, including the basic concepts and theorems. The topics of the course include convex sets, convex functions, convex optimisation problems, duality, approximation and fitting, statistical
Introduction to linear dynamical systems : EE263 : Linear systems and optimization
This lecture course on linear dynamical systems is made available as part of Stanford Engineering Everywhere, an initiative from Stanford University licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States licence. Topics covered in the notes include: an overview of linear dynamical systems, linear functions, a review of linear algebra, orthonormal sets of vectors and QR factorisation, and the least squares method. The website includes video lecture notes in multiple formats with transcri
Community, capital and calculation: secondary school choice and the middle class self
Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2006. The paper reports on the interviewing of parents and children in over 130 white middle-class households in London and two provincial cities in England. In each case, a positive choice has been made in favour of a state secondary school that is performing at or below the England average according to conventional examination league-tables.
Arriving and getting ready
Do you get stressed at the thought of an examination? Does the idea of revision fill you with dread? This unit will provide a host of tips to help you improve your revision and examination techniques and enable you to manage your time effectively by creating a timetable for your revision.
Introduction
Do you get stressed at the thought of an examination? Does the idea of revision fill you with dread? This unit will provide a host of tips to help you improve your revision and examination techniques and enable you to manage your time effectively by creating a timetable for your revision.
Science Subject Knowledge for Trainee Primary Teachers - The delivery of multimedia content via a Vi
This project examined how a virtual learning environment could be used to enhance science subject knowledge for trainee primary teachers.
Diagnostic quizzes, specially designed and created materials using still and moving images, and extra sessions were used successfully to enhance subject knowledge competence and confidence in ‘difficult concepts’ in science. These materials were used with primary PGCE trainees and are available for examination.
Supported by a TDA Research and Developmen
Personalising Progress - Episode 1
This Teachers TV programme provides a detailed examination of the Stickman approach, developed by Sue Hackman at the DfES as a way of helping schools to improve their SATs results at the end of key stages 2 and 3.
Teach For America Teachers’ Careers: Whether, When, and Why They Leave Low-Income Schools and the
This is a research report investigating reasons behind Teach for America (TfA) teachers’ careers choices, presented at the 2008 American Education Research Association annual conference in New York. The paper presents the results of a large-scale study using discrete time survival analysis to explore turnover in a sample of 2029 TfA teachers. Drawing on the responses of TfA teachers to an on-line questionnaire, a retrospective, teacher-period data set was produced which has permitted an examin
Using national data for self-evaluation and school improvement
This NFER PRE article is a guide to the complexities and potential of the range of performance and assessment data available today. It aims to explain the main concepts and mechanisms in a clear and straightforward fashion thus enabling their positive use for school improvement. The interpretative remit embraces Achievement and Attainment tables together with the RAISEonline and Ofsted websites. An exposition of the meaning of contextualised value-added (CVA) analysis together with the different
Children and Healthy Eating: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators
This resource is an EPPI review (2003) of international research which considers barriers and facilitators to promoting healthy eating with children aged 4 -10. Key chapters which would be of interest to practitioners, including ITE tutors and trainees, are clearly signposted in the preface. These include examination of children’s views on healthy eating (Chapter 7), which are sometimes in conflict with the approaches of some attempted interventions into children’s eating habits.
Architecture's Unique Position Among the Disciplines : Puzzle-Making vs. Problem Solving
Most disciplines involved in the building process, i.e., programmers, space planners, and engineers work in what may be described as a problem solving mode. They state desired effects as explicit performance criteria before they initiate a decision process and test alternative solutions against those criteria until a fit is attained which falls within known probabilities of success. Architects, however are not problem solvers and they are not seeking explicit information when they design how bui
Tunisians flee to Italy
Weather improves prompting renewed influx of refugees to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
3A. Anatomy of the Human Abdominal Wall
health, medicine, biology, diagnosis, patient care, doctor, hospital, abdomen, symptoms, examination, anatomy, structure, sternum, joint, diaphragm, rib, muscle, intercostal, kidney, gallbladder, nerve, pain, lymph nodes, oblique, pubic crest
3B. Anatomy of the Human Abdominal Wall
health, medicine, diagnosis, patient care, doctor, hospital, symptoms, examination, anatomy, structure, sternum, joint, diaphragm, rib, muscle, intercostal, kidney, gallbladder, nerve, pain, lymph nodes, oblique
4A. Anatomy of the Human Pelvis
Science, medicine, female anatomy, skeleton, bony pelvis, spine, vertebrae, sacral canal, sacrum, pubic arch, pregnancy, inlet, ischium, pelvic rim, anesthesia, coxis, examination, joints, cartilage, sacro-spinus ligament, membrane, muscle, ligament, diap
2B. Anatomy of the Human Thorax
health, medicine, biology, diagnosis, patient care, doctor, hospital, symptoms, examination, anatomy, thorax, structure, chest, sternum, abdominal wall, lungs, muscle, heart, clavicle, beat, costal, diaphragm, pulmonary chamber, pleura, rib, intercostal,
Copyright Law: What is a "song" and protection for live performances Guest: Professor Robert C. Lind, Southwestern Law School Topic: Copyright Law: "Songs", derivative works and sound recordings; and the unavailability of copyright protection for some performances. Running Time: 20:15 Click here to download the mp3 file: Author(s):
Drug Law Reform
CEPS visitor, Dr Norm Stamper, former Chief of the Seattle Police Department and one of the leading lights of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a drug-policy-reform group. Dr Stamper is a major proponent of significant drug law reform, believing that the "war on drugs" has actually been a war on people. Having served as a police officer for 34 years, and Chief of the Seattle Police Department from 1998 to 2000, Norm Stamper is one of the strongest voices in the US advocating legalisati
Criminal violence in Cambodia: An historical perspective
Empirical studies and theoretical analyses of long-term trends in criminal violence have been done in western countries but rarely in other parts of the world. The research conducted by Professor Broadhurst and Dr Bouhours attempts to fill this gap through an examination of the evolution of criminal violence in Cambodia from the start of the 20th century to the present. However, different sources and methods of criminal data recording were used between 1900 and 2008. The diversity of the sources
2A. Anatomy of the Human Thorax
health, medicine, biology, diagnosis, patient care, doctor, hospital, symptoms, examination, anatomy, structure, chest
