Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles
Soon, after checking under the hood and kicking the tires, we will be scanning our car’s on-board diagnostic system (OBD). Sanjay Sarma has been investigating ways to take advantage of a car’s sensor bus, the module that records and conveys information about the vehicle’s components and systems. Sarma hopes to make the OBD in
South Korea remembers Korean War
Jun 25 - South Koreans commemorate the 61st anniversary of the 1950-53 Korean War that divided the Korean peninsula and left 3 million dead. Sunita Rappai reports.
The Future of Impartiality - Is the Public Service Ethos Doomed? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Baum | Is it possible to regulate for impartiality in a post 2012 world or is the public service ethos doomed? Emily Bell is a journalist for The Guardian. Evan Davies is BBC Economics Editor. Richard North is a journalist and commentator for the BBC. Elinor Goodman is former political editor for Channel 4 news.
A World Economic Order Based on Cultural Comparative Advantage [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor John Hooker | Professor Hooker will argue that the world is evolving towards a new economic equilibrium based on cultural comparative advantage, leading to cultural deglobalisation, not globalisation. John Hooker is professor of business ethics and professor of operations research at Carnegie Mellon University.
EU Competitiveness: Are we on the right track? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Alexandr Vondra | In January 2007, Alexandr Vondra was appointed the Czech Republic4s Deputy Prime Minister for European affairs. He is responsible for preparing the agenda for the Czech EU Presidency. Prior to this position he was the Foreign Minister (2006-2007), Special Representative for the NATO Summit in Prague (2001-2002), Ambassador to the USA (1997-2001) and foreign policy advisor to former President Vaclav Havel (1990-1992). Alexandr Vondra played a central role in leading
The State between Migration and Sojourning: the China difference [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Wang Gungwu | At the end of the 19th century, the Qing court described all Chinese living overseas as sojourners. Under the Republic, overseas Chinese were enjoined to be patriotic. After 1949, migration policies changed several times. Why did three different Chinese states pay so much attention to this subject?
America's Wars in the Muslim World [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Alia Brahimi, Professor Fawaz Gerges, Nir Rosen | This event celebrates the publication of Aftermath by Nir Rosen and Jihad and Just War in the War on Terror by Alia Brahimi. While Rosen chronicles the devastating consequences on the ground, Brahimi explores the problematic ideology driving the leaders above. Alia Brahimi is a research fellow at LSE Global Governance and a senior research associate of the Changing Character of War programme at the University of Oxford. Fawaz Gerge
Coach Josh Pastner and True Blue Choices.
Coach Josh Pastner talks about True Blue Choices for the School of Public Health at the University of Memphis.
3.2.1 Ever-changing labels
Care is needed at all stages of life. This unit makes care in the family its focus because the overwhelming majority of care, including health care, is supplied in families, much of it in private, much of it unnoticed and unremarked upon. The meaning of the term (informal carer) and the word (care) itself are explored.
Penn State students just want to say... thank you.
Penn State students taking the time to say thank you to donors who made a gift in 2010-2011 for their support of Penn State!
NEAR views the Asteroid Eros (true color)
Views of the asteroid Eros generated by data from the laser range finder. The 3-D model was generated from laser range finder data and the color was applied based on color images.
An audacious plan to save the world
June 30 - Paul Romer talks with Chrystia Freeland about building new cities in the developing world.
1 Languages in the world This section aims to make you aware of a world beyond your current sphere of knowledge. Where is English spoken as an official Spreekoefening: We apologise for any inconvenience caused Hurricane Frances Rain Towers Rational Expressions: Complex Rational Expressions Relationship between e-Science and HPC The Z-Scan technique applied to investigate optical properties of complex fluids Part 2 Asteroids
Activity 1 English in the world
In deze les leren cursisten op een gepaste manier slecht nieuws meedelen aan bekende en onbekende taalgebruikers.
NASAs TRMM spacecraft allows us to look under Hurricane Frances clouds to see the rain structure. Spikes in the rain structure known as "Hot Towers" indicate storm intensity. The "hot towers" which refers to the tall cumulonimbus, has been seen as one of the mechanisms by which the intensity of a tropical cyclone is maintained. Because of the size (1-5 km) and short duration (30 minute to 2 hours) of these hot towers, studies of these events have been limited to descriptive studies from aircraft
This module contains the a rational expressions from Elementary Algebra by Denny Burzynski and Wade Ellis, Jr.
Discusses the relationship between e-Science and HPC communities and the impact that differences in culture have for the adoption of e-Infrastructure services for research.
The Z-Scan technique applied to investigate optical properties of complex fluids Part 2
In this lesson, students learn some basic facts about asteroids in our solar system. The main focus is on the size of asteroids and how that relates to the potential danger of an asteroid colliding with the Earth. Students are briefly introduced to the destruction that would ensue should a large asteroid hit, as it did 65 million years ago.
