Haiti: Dream and Nightmare
Amy Wilentz, author of "This Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier" (1989), is preparing a second book about post-earthquake Haiti. She has received Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Non-Fiction Award, and a nomination for National Book Critics Circle Award.
Ouvrage: Les outils stochastiques des marchés financiers
Domaine: Mathématiques financières
Depuis 40 ans, les outils mathématiques probabilistes ont montré leur rôle central dans le développement dÂ’outils dÂ’aide à la décision pour les marchés financiers. Ils offrent un cadre méthodologique robuste de modélisation et calcul des risques associés aux produits dérivés, ces fameux instruments financiers qui dépendent de manière plus ou moins complexe dÂ’autres produits financiers plus simples (actions, indices, taux de change, taux dÂ
Economic Policy Challenges: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy
Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy
Welcome
Deborah K. Fitzgerald
Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Moderator
Ricardo Caballero PhD '88
Ford Professor of Economics and Department Head, MIT
Panel
Pedro Aspe PhD ’78
Co-Chairman, Evercore Partners and Chairman and CEO, Protego
Olivier Blanchard PhD ’77
Class of 1941 Professor of Economics, MIT and Chief Economist, Inte
Economic Policy Challenges: Microeconomics and Regulation
Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy
Moderator
Nancy L. Rose PhD '85
Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Panel
Dennis W. Carlton SM ’74 PhD ’75
Katherine Dusak Miller Professor of Economics,
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Mark B. McClellan PhD ’93
Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Richard Schmalensee ’65 PhD ’70
Howard W.
Northeastern University Postgame Press Conference _ Beanpot Finals 2011 _ Feb 14, 2011
Northeastern University head coach Greg Cronin along with sophomore goaltender Chris Rawlings and senior assistant captain Wade MacLeod addressed the media contingent at the TD Garden following a heart-breaking 7-6 overtime loss to No. 1 Boston College on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011.
124: Business ideas for social change
Business schools teach that markets and best practice should be leveraged to increase profits. But can they also be used to create social change?
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CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - La modification de la catégorie « Autisme » : enjeux sociaux et cultu
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille : 7ème Congrès National des Internes en Psychiatrie (CNIPsy). Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Session : Péripéties dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie.
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille – La modification de la catégorie « Autisme » : enjeux sociaux et culturels.
Résumé : On pourrait croire la psychiatrie atteinte d’amnésie antérograde, oubliant à mesure les chemins qui l’ont conduite au présent. Et son histoire, elle la réécrit parfois ave
Mindsets Matter: A Social Cognitive Approach to Dieting Motivation
The Lunchtime Forum Series, sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences, provides faculty a venue to present ongoing projects and research to their peers.
Dr. Jeni Burnette presented at the series in February 2011 on her research involving obesity and mindsets. Learn more about Dr. Burnette at http://psychology.richmond.edu/faculty/jburnet2/
Building a Business: Managing people, managing teams (old)
The fifth in the 2009/10 Building a Business lecture series on how manage people and teams in a start-up. Building a Business is a nine week evening lecture course of basic business skills. The course covers good business practice with a focus on science entrepreneurship. It is designed around technological enterprise but most course material is relevant to general business practice.
Sarn Gynfelyn from Aberystwyth
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Earth Processes in the Critical Zone
EARTH 530 will introduce you to the basic information necessary for understanding Earth surface processes in the Critical Zone through an integration of various scientific disciplines. Those who successfully complete EARTH 530 will be able to apply their knowledge of fundamental concepts of Earth surface processes to understanding outstanding fundamental questions in Critical Zone science and how their lives are intimately linked to Critical Zone health.
New York: A Documentary Film
Thirteen's Educational Publishing Department prepares educational kits to accompany certain television programming. These guides are available in print and, electronically, as PDFs (Portable Document Format), through the Web. This Teacher's Guide accompanies the program NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM. The guide is intended to help use the film as a supplement to junior-high and high-school social-studies courses. Selected activities may also be used in language arts, music, and art classes. Key th
Fight Bac! Food safety education: Grades 4-8
Your Game Plan to Food Safety - the teacher's activity and experiment guide, a comprehensive guide to teaching FightBAC! in the classroom. How Children FightBAC! meets State Core Curriculum requirements for Health Education. fightbac.org, the website of the Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE), is your resource for Fight BAC! food safety and safe food handling campaign information.
The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food
This course encompasses the study of eating as it affects the health and well-being of every human. Topics include taste preferences, food aversions, the regulation of hunger and satiety, food as comfort and friendship, eating as social ritual, and social norms of blame for food problems. The politics of food discusses issues such as sustainable agriculture, organic farming, genetically modified foods, nutrition policy, and the influence of food and agriculture industries. Also examined are prob
Utilization of Nursing Research in Advanced Practice, Summer 2008
The primary goal of this course is to promote an evidence-based approach to advanced nursing practice. Evidenced-based research findings for nursing practice will be evaluated in terms of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic relevance. An understanding of the research process, applicable theories, organizational dynamics, and leadership functions are applied to design and process of implementing research in health care settings.
Patient Communication Skills, 2009
The materials on this page represent a curriculum for teaching effective patient communication to dentistry students. These techniques could be useful for other healthcare providers, as well: medical students, nursing students, public health providers, and in-practice health care providers. There are two main types of resources: performance keys and videos.
Performance Keys are text documents that articulate key patient interaction skills, and give examples of more and less effective techniques
HEALth Case Studies
This program was designed for dental hygiene and dentistry students to help them learn about evidence-based dentistry and its role in providing quality dental care. This program uses patient-based case studies combined with interactive tools and activities to help students become effective consumers of oral health research data. They learn to locate, evaluate, and use the outcomes of research studies to improve patient assessment, diagnosis, clinical decision making, and treatment planning, as w
Medicine and Public Health in American History, Fall 2007
This course offers an introduction to differing conceptions of disease, health, and healing throughout American history, the changing role and image of medicine and medical professionals in American life, and the changing social and cultural meanings and entanglements of medical science and practice throughout American history.
Cars of Tomorrow and the American Community
Through this unit, students identify how alternatively fueled cars of tomorrow can be used in their community. The unit contains an introductory activity that helps students determine which energy and transportation issues are important to them and their communities, and three research sections about alternative fueled vehicles that address availability and distribution; emissions and health; and operation, maintenance, and refueling. With each lesson, students discover another social, scientifi
