Mahara Tutorial 2: Options (en)
Screencast tutorial for the usage of the e-portfolio software Mahara in the context of the EU-project MOSEP - More self-esteem with my e-portfolio (www.mosep.org). Part 2: Options
Excellence in Public Policy; A Celebration of Julian Le Grands forty years as a leading academic and
For excellent public policy, it is necessary to have a clear idea of both the ends to be achieved (including equity, quality and efficiency), and the means for achieving those ends (including the structure of motivation and incentives, and the appropriate balance between market and state). Julian has made major contributions in all of these areas, and this Seminar is an opportunity for distinguished academics and commentators to reflect on his work while developing their own ideas. Speakers incl
5.2.2 The emergency stop technique
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.
3.6.5 Self-help groups - revising with others
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.
Stack It Up!
Students analyze and begin to design a pyramid. Working in engineering teams, they perform calculations to determine the area of the pyramid base, stone block volumes, and the number of blocks required for their pyramid base. They make a scaled drawing of the pyramid using graph paper.
2011 Profile in Courage Award Recipient Elizabeth Redenbaugh, New Hanover County, North Carolina
Elizabeth Redenbaugh, School Board Member, New Hanover County, North Carolina
An active school volunteer for years, Elizabeth Redenbaugh was sworn in as a member of North Carolina's New Hanover County School Board in December 2008. A few months after she was elected, the school board began contemplating a redistricting plan that appeared likely to result in increased socioeconomic and racial segregation in Wilmington middle schools. Supporters of the measure argued that the proposed changes wer
2011 Profile in Courage Award - Opening Remarks by Caroline Kennedy
Boston MA -- Elizabeth Redenbaugh, a New Hanover County, North Carolina School Board member who stood up against what she perceived as racial segregation in school redistricting plans, and Wael Ghonim and the people of Egypt, whose courageous demand for democratic reform inspired similar movements across the Middle East, were presented the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award™ by Caroline Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
"They live on different continents a
2011 Profile in Courage Award Recipient Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in the name of the People of Egypt.
In June 2010, in response to the ruthless killing of Alexandria businessman Khaled Said by Egyptian police, Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian Google executive living and working in Dubai, anonymously launched a Facebook page, "We are all Khaled Said," to condemn the killing. Even anonymous criticism of the repressive regime of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was uncommon; police brutality and
Max Mathews & John Chowning - Music Meets the Computer
[Recorded: December 14, 2004]
Computers have revolutionized music making. Two of the most important pioneers of computer music, Max Mathews and John Chowning, stand at the epicenter of this musical revolution. Research led by Mathews at Bell Laboratories, beginning in the 1950s, created a series of programming languages that are the direct precursors of today's software synthesizers. Max Mathew's many contributions to interactive music systems, algorithmic composition, and psychoacoustics (with
CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Réalisation pratique de l’administration vaccinale.
Cours international francophone de vaccinologie
Hôpital d’instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce – Ecole du Val-de-Grâce
Titre : CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Réalisation pratique de l’administration vaccinale.
Intervenant : Catherine GOUJON
Résumé : 29 mars 2011 - cours 28 : Réalisation pratique de l’administration vaccinale.
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées
CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Vaccins du futur.
Cours international francophone de vaccinologie
Hôpital d’instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce – Ecole du Val-de-Grâce
Titre : CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Vaccins du futur..
Intervenant : Marc GIRARD
Résumé : 29 mars 2011 - cours 40 : Vaccins du futur.
L’auteur n’a pas transmis de conflit d’intérêt concernant les données diffusées dans cette vidéo ou publiées dans la référence citée.
Conférence enregistrée lors du DIU de vac
Predit 4 : Cérémonie de remise des prix
Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Cérémonie de remise des prix
Les prix du Predit sont décernés, à mi-parcours et en fin de programme, à des recherches dont la qualité et les impacts font référence
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)
pour le programme au regard de ses différentes priorités. Soixante-sept projets nommés et seize primés seront ainsi mis à l’honneur dans
les c
Politiques de transport, quel chemin vers 2050 ?
Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Cérémonie d'ouverture : Politiques de transport, quel chemin vers 2050 ?
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)
La France s’est donné comme objectif de diviser par 4 ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre d’ici 2050 par rapport à 1990. Cet objectif ambitieux ne pourra être atteint qu’en combinant un ensemble de leviers : la technologie certes, mais aussi des rég
Mobilités, technologies et services pour des transports sobres
Mi-parcours du Predit 4
Mobilités, technologies et services pour des transports sobres
Le Carrefour de la recherche et de l'innovation dans les transports terrestres
10-12 mai 2011 (Bordeaux)
Le Grenelle de l’environnement a donné une forte impulsion pour l’évolution du système de transport vers plus de sobriété, en énergie
mais aussi en matières, pour les transports de marchandises comme de voyageurs, pour les transports collectifs comme indiv
La maladie d’Alzheimer : pourquoi les progrès thérapeutiques sont-ils si lents ?
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La chimie théorique, miroir de la réalité ou miroir aux alouettes - Odile Eisenstein
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Trafficking in Nepal: Overview
Anup Kaphle and Habiba Nosheen traveled to Nepal to report on the issue of sex trafficking, a problem the country has been dealing with for decades. Thousand of young Nepali girls are trafficked to neighboring India, where they are sold to brothels in cities like Mumbai and Calcutta. Kaphle and Nosheen reported on the lives of some of these girls who are rescued and rehabilitated by private organization based in Kathmandu.
Making Natural Language Processing More Accessible for Analysis of Clinical Text
Speaker: Wendy W. Chapman, Division of Biomedical Informatics UCSD
Borderline cases
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Women and the Rule of Law
Aileen Pisciotta introduces and demonstrates the new website impowr.org from the International Models Project for Women's Rights, established by the American Bar Association in 2008 to harness the information sharing power of the internet to empower advocates and defenders of gender equality under the law around the world.
Speaker Biography: Aileen Pisciotta is a business lawyer with over 25 years experience as a major law firm partner, corporate general counsel and senior government manager. S
