Lake sediment evidence for long-range air pollution on the Tibetan Plateau
Recent decades have seen the emergence of sign linguistics as a sub-discipline of linguistic research, accumulating a body of knowledge that has enlightened linguists about the complex grammatical properties of sign language. Researchers have also begun to show how sign language is acquired as a first language by deaf children who can then use this resource to develop spoken and written language for education and social communication in the hearing majority community. These findings have demonst
Chinese Medicine: From the Yellow Emperor to the Whole Wide Web
This presentation will present a range of collaborative research into the history and culture of Chinese medicine that has been undertaken in the last five years at the Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine, UCL. Most of my personal research involves the translation, analysis and access to medical manuscripts that date from the 2nd to 11th C. CE. To this end I work with archaeologists, palaeographers, philologists, and medical historians all over China. Apart from books and article some
Early and traditional copper metallurgy in western China
Copper underpins the technology and economy of most societies of the last four thousand years, and ancient China is no exception. It relies heavily on copper for the production of bronze objects, such as weapons, tools and vessels, but also for its coinage and other monetary instruments. The artistic expression preserved in highly decorated and intricately cast bronze objects is rightly admired, and has attracted much scientific and art historical attention. Little, however, is known about the p
City history and multi-scale spatial master-planning
The UK and Chinese Governments have agreed at the highest level to collaborate through the China-UK Sustainable Development Dialogue on research and knowledge exchange to help ensure that the way we develop our cities will become truly sustainable. As a part of that initiative a group of related networks has been funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, inspired by the Dongtan Eco-city development north of Shanghai.
The specific network which is the subject of th
The impact of Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment on the language development of deaf and hearing chi
Recent decades have seen the emergence of sign linguistics as a sub-discipline of linguistic research, accumulating a body of knowledge that has enlightened linguists about the complex grammatical properties of sign language. Researchers have also begun to show how sign language is acquired as a first language by deaf children who can then use this resource to develop spoken and written language for education and social communication in the hearing majority community. These findings have demonst
Au bureau de vente de billets
This unit helps you to acquire the basic language to find your way around a French town. You will learn how to understand and give directions, ask about accommodation, book a hotel room at the tourist information office and get information about what to see and do in the local area. You will visit some museums in Avignon and buy a film for your camera. This unit also deals with telling the time and making liaisons in speech. By the end of the unit, you will feel more confident understanding and
2007.01.10-Martin Luther King Jr. Week Keynote Address
Known throughout the world for her ongoing efforts to combat all forms of oppression in the United States and abroad, Davis is a living witness to the historical struggles of our contemporary era, and in this lecture she analyzes the status of civil ...
2006.09.26-From Maya to MEChistA: An Enduring Spirit of Inquiry and Activism
This presentation entails a historical overview of indigenous tribal communities in pre-conquest Meso-America, tracing the roots of contemporary issues within the Latino/a community in the southwestern U.S. back to the clash of indigenous tribes and ...
Périodicité et chaos dans le système solaire (video)
Pendant très longtemps, les astronomes ont cherché à retrouver dans les mouvements des corps du système solaire les périodicités qui leur permettaient alors de faire des prédictions (pour les dates des éclipses par exemple), et jusque très récemment le mouvement des planètes dans le système solaire était considéré comme le modèle même de régularité. Les résultats de ces dernières années montrent au contraire que le mouvement des planètes lui-même est chaotique, et qu'
The Benefits of an Online Certificate Program from Berklee
Watch a short video with our Student Advisors discussing Berkleemusic's Certificate Programs. These multi-course online programs provide students with:
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U-M Francis Medal presentation to Dr. Alfred Sommer
Lecture by Dr. Alfred Sommer , 2010 recipient of Thomas Francis, Jr. Medal in Global Public Health.
Meet Author Dr. Lissa Rankin
October 4, 2010 - Dr. Lissa Rankin straddles the line between your gynecologist and your best friend in this empowering and informative book on women's sexuality and health. With wisdom, honesty and loads of humor, Dr. Rankin answers female health questions women are afraid to ask. As outrageously funny as it is empowering, this book reveals how to love yourself and your body—you will be recommending it to every woman you know.
Julefest: the Christmas Pops Concert
A preview of Valparaiso University's annual Christmas band concert, featuring well-known holiday compositions. Check out valpo.edu/valpochristmas for more stories and videos as Valpo's 24 Days of Christmas continues.
Acknowledgements
To develop as an independent, confident learner you will need to learn the study skills involved in reading articles, taking notes and summarising the information that you have obtained from an article. The unit explores the use of the Web as a resource for keeping up to date, looking in particular at how to assess material available online.
Learning outcomes
This unit looks at the human being in the context of an individual life cycle, examining some of the processes that contribute to the formation of a new person. After a brief discussion of historical ideas about human conception, and about contraception to the present day, we look at the cells involved in the conception and development of a new individual. Gamete production (that is, production of mature cells able to unite with another in sexual reproduction) in both men and women is introduced
An analysis of the SRL potential of a Technology Enhanced Learning Environment based on the collabor
This report presents an analysis of the potential support to Self-Regulated Learning granted by a communication environment developed to support teachers' collaboration on Learning Objects. The analysis is made by applying a check-list developed within the European project TELEPEERS.,Research report
Finding information in mathematics and statistics
This unit will help you to identify and use information in maths and statistics, whether for your work, study or personal purposes. Experiment with some of the key resources in this subject area, and learn about the skills which will enable you to plan searches for information, so you can find what you are looking for more easily. Discover the meaning of information quality, and learn how to evaluate the information you come across. You will also be introduced to the many different ways of organ
Developing thinking skills in the primary classroom
This paper presents the background to the keynote address given at the ‘Register of Primary Research Seminar Conference’ in Worcester U.K. October 2001. It gives a succinct review of the literature on developing thinking skills in the classroom and identifies "powerful pedagogical strategies" to investigate and develop effective teaching and learning. There is then a review of a number of classroom approaches. These have been trialled in, and developed for, both primary and secondary classro
Structuring collective activities with tasks and plans
Symba is a Web-based framework designed to support collective activities in a learning context. In order to make students explicitly work out their organization it dissociates an "organizational level" and an "activity level" and allows students to describe their organization as plans composed of tasks.
A Holistic Approach to Teaching a Laboratory, Using Sea Urchin Development as an Example System
This exercise uses brainstorming, writing, and oral presentation techniques within the framework of a laboratory to illustrate the basic principles of early development. In groups, students learn how to identify a good model system (the sea urchin), isolate its gametes, mix some gametes from each sex, and study the ensuing processes of fertilization and development. After being introduced to the basic techniques, student groups design their own experimental approaches to further analyze these pr
