7.344 Directed Evolution: Engineering Biocatalysts (MIT)
Directed evolution has been used to produce enzymes with many unique properties. The technique of directed evolution comprises two essential steps: mutagenesis of the gene encoding the enzyme to produce a library of variants, and selection of a particular variant based on its desirable catalytic properties. In this course we will examine what kinds of enzymes are worth evolving and the strategies used for library generation and enzyme selection. We will focus on those enzymes that are used in th
15.369 Corporate Entrepreneurship: Strategies for Technology-Based New Business Development (MIT)
This course is about "corporate entrepreneurship", my label for the alternative approaches that existing firms use to generate new technology-based products and businesses. It emphasizes various kinds of internal ventures and multiple "external" collaborative approaches that include corporate venture capital investments, licensing and different types of alliances and formal joint ventures. Basis for the new knowledge presented in this course is a combination of academic research and my personal
Getting Away With Murder: State Violence and Impunity in Phatthalung, 1972-1975
In February 1975, student activists exposed a series of brutal murders of citizens by Communist Suppression Operations Command and other state security forces that had taken place two-and-a-half years earlier in Phatthalung province in mid-southern Thailand. The thang daeng, or 'red drum,' killings gained their name from the method of killing employed. Accused of engaging in Communist activities, or tacit support for them, citizens were arrested, or simply taken, in large sweeps across districts
Georgestock 2010
The College of Charleston welcomed more than 2,500 new and returning students to campus at the third annual Georgestock. The event was held in the Carolina First Arena on Sunday -- with free food, giveaways, entertainment, and music provided by New York-based DJ Chachi.
Site Libre Savoirs: Statistique appliquée à la génétique et à la génomique
Domaine: Probabilités et statistiques
Introduction of genome based analysis of quantitative traits with machine learning and non-parametric methods.
Prof. Daniel Gianola, University of Wisconsin
Cycle de cours du 5 au 9 juillet 2010
Le cours est disponible intégralement en vidéo dans la partie "Ressources pédagogiques"
Fair Health: Health Inequities Within and Between Countries - A Global Challenge
The 20th century has seen impressive gains in health and life expectancy in many parts of the world – but these improvements are unequally distributed. In every country, poor people and those from socially disadvantaged groups get sicker and die sooner than people in more privileged social positions. Not only is there a gap in health between the best-off and the worst-off in society, there is a gradient in health running between them. This gradient can be linked clearly to social and economic
What is Creativity and Creative Pedagogy? - Dr Paul Kleiman, PALATINE
Dr Kleiman offers a deep historical critique of the notion of creativity and the way that in some senses it has become kind of creed. Nobody denies the importance of creativity, but nobody can agree what it is and where it comes from.
He goes onto to discuss a wide range of conceptions of creativity, from those based on psychological theories of the mind to those rooted in philosophy and cultural. The presentation ends with Dr Kleiman sharing some research that he has conducted on academics and
Directing the Royal Shakespeare Company - Vikki Heywood
Vikki Heywood is the Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company based in Stratford Upon Avon. She is responsible for 20 productions each year, 700 staff and an annual budget of 30 million pounds. The RSC is also deep into a rebuilding project in Stratford.
In this Coventry Conversation Vikki discusses life at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
This talk is also available to watch on CUTV
Football, Finance and Funny Business - Simon Chadwick
Simon Chadwick was a founder, and remains a Director, of London University’s Birkbeck Sport Business Centre. Simon is a founder and director of CIBS – the Centre for the International Business of Sport at Coventry University. His research interests are based around sport marketing and sport business strategy.
In this Coventry Conversation, Simon talks about corruption and dodgy dealings in the world of football.
This talk is also available to watch on CUTV.
Creative Life After Coventry - Verity Pabla, The Don Burroni and Brad Powell
Three creative graduates - Verity Pabla, Brad Powell and 'the Don Burroni' - came back to Coventry University to discuss how they have set up their own creative businesses.
Verity Pabla co-founded I’m Not a Machine Productions and launched as a professional company in late 2007. Her company has developed a reputation for being innovative, resourceful, free-spirited and truly creative through, in the most part, music and film work.
'The Don Burroni' conceived, scripted, produced, directed and
Controlling at the BEEB - Andy Griffee
Andy Griffee became Controller, BBC English Regions in March 1999, 11 years after joining the BBC as a Broadcast Journalist.
Working out of the English Regions’ headquarters at BBC Birmingham, Griffee is responsible for over 3,000 staff based across England, and for 3,000 hours a year of regional television programmes, over 250,000 hours of local radio from the BBC’s 39 local stations and 42 Where I Live local BBC internet sites. Here he talks about his job and responsibilities at the BEEB.
Tot’s TV - Anne Wood, Ragdoll
Anne Wood, Stratford based Ragdoll’s Founder and Creative Director talks to John Mair in the Coventry Conversations series about her work, her remarkable success with Teletubbies and her most recent and ambitious project, “In the Night Garden”
In The Night Garden (100×30’ episodes) is intended for children aged 1-3 and has been devised by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport, the partnership responsible for Teletubbies.
As with Teletubbies, it has international appeal and a breadth of scale
The Internet and Journalism - Andy Griffee and Alan Kirby
Alan Kirby is the Editor for The Coventry Telegraph, he joined the Telegraph as a reporter 35 years ago. He has since worked as News Editor, Production Editor, Features Editor, Deputy Editor and was appointed Editor in January 1999.
Andy Griffee is Controller for English Regions at The BBC. He became controller in March 1999 after just 11 years working for the BBC.
Together they talk about the influence the internet has had on Journalism, and their plans for future internet based news delivery
My Experience in Documentary - Alex Holmes - Writer, Producer and Director
Alex has been responsible as producer/director/writer for three major pieces of recent UK television history: In 1999 he was the series editor of the groundbreaking series Macintyre Undercover; In 2004, Dunkirk told the human stories of the Dunkirk landing in factual drama form; and his latest offering is House of Saddam which was based on 2 years of research.
In this Conversation, Alex comes to Coventry fresh from Los Angeles and London to talk about the latest drama.
Football, Finance and Funny Business - Simon Chadwick
Simon Chadwick was a founder, and remains a Director, of London University’s Birkbeck Sport Business Centre. Simon is a founder and director of CIBS – the Centre for the International Business of Sport at Coventry University. His research interests are based around sport marketing and sport business strategy.
In this Coventry Conversation, Simon talks about corruption and dodgy dealings in the world of football.
This talk is also available to watch on CUTV.
It’s Tough Times for Newspapers - David Brookes
David Brookes has spent over 30 years in journalism including roles as a reporter, page designer, sub-editor, chief sub-editor, assistant editor and editor. He was editor of the Sunday Mercury, based in Birmingham, from 2000 – 2008.
David has been editor of the Coventry Telegraph since January 1st 2009 and in this Coventry Conversation, you can hear him talking about why he thinks working in Newspapers is such hard work.
Is there a Crisis in World Journalism? Dr Suzanne Franks
Suzanne Franks is Director of Research at Kent University’s Centre for Journalism. At the start of her journalism career she worked with the BBC as a researcher on documentaries and then joined the Television Current Affairs department, producing programmes such as Newsnight, Watchdog, The Money Programme and Panorama. In the 1990s she started an independent production company, Sevenday Productions, which was awarded the first outside contract for the televising of Parliament. She was based in
A Different View of News - Stephen Cole, Al Jazeera
For more than eighteen years Stephen Cole has fronted the worlds leading and most respected news channels including Sky News and CNN, eventually joining BBC World in 1996. He is now the senior anchor at Al Jazeera English based in London.
In this Coventry Conversation he discusses the work of the Al Jazeera channel - which is often criticised by politicians for the stance it takes on contemporary debates.
Easterday to Fund Ag Waste-Based Bioenergy Research at WSU Tri-Cities
RICHLAND, Wash. — A prominent agricultural family is giving $225,000 to support research being conducted in the Bioproducts, Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory at Washington State University Tri-Cities.
Cody Easterday, president of the Pasco-based Easterday Ranches and Easterday Farms, announced the three-year pledge gift of $75,000 per year.
For more on this story, follow this link http://wsunews.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=21360&TypeID=1
Traffic Paradoxes and Route Guidance: Effective Ways of Reducing Congestion Effects?
It is well know that we cannot engineer our way out of traffic congestion by building new roads. In fact, expanding the road network may paradoxically attract new traffic, and increase gridlock. Andreas Schulz provides a mathematical explanation for this conundrum. Using Nash equilibria and related game-theoretic concepts he
