Speaking for Islam
This week’s podcast features an exclusive interview with one of the world’s leading experts on Islam and its relationship with the West.
Professor John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and Professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington DC, visited The University of Nottingham to deliver the Firth lectures in the Department
Professor John Esposito
Introduction to the Digestive System
Professor George Wolfe introduces the structure and function of the digestive system in this video from Thinkwell's online Biology series. This video uses lecture format and a whiteboard to aid in explanations. Run time 11:04.
C++ Console Lesson 19: Function Templates
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This C++ video tutorial shows how to create and call function templates. Function templates are special functions that can operate with generic types. This allows us to create a function template whose functionality can be adapted to more than one type or class without repeating the entire code for each type.
Childnet International - Cyber Bullying
This video illustrates the dangers of cyber bullying and offers solutions to the problem.
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In cooperation with Childnet International - Please watch this video and please comment. Cyber Bullying has got to stop. So many awesome young people and adults, go thru this every day. It dosen't have to happen and believe it or not, It does, It's illegal and people performing this type of Bullying can be arested. Please Help Stop this a
Crisis, Clear skies and China opportunities
With every crisis comes a silver lining. While not everyone subscribes to that belief, Asian business leaders speaking at this year’s Bloomberg Leadership Forum in Hong Kong are certainly convinced of its validity.
Developing nations need to embrace economic, political processes to reverse ‘natural resource curs
Even though the signs of recovery from the financial crisis are strongest in Asia and the region is touted to be the most likely source of economic growth globally, rural poverty remains rampant.
A mantra of business success
For Sir Martin Sorrell, Group CEO of marketing communications services giant WPP, the key to future business success lies in a short and simple mantra: new markets, new media, and consumer insight.
Businesses increasingly face water risks
The world will face a 40 per cent shortfall in water supplies by 2030. The good news is that if we are smart, we can meet the challenge successfully. But this can only happen through co-operation between industry, governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and communities, SABMiller’s head of sustainable development, Andy Wales, told INSEAD Knowledge on the sidelines of the LBC’s (London Business Conference) ‘Corporate Water Scarcity Risk Management Conference’ held recently.
Learning from Past Experiences? Building an Ambitious Future?
Please refer to part A for the abstract.
"The Fifteen-Woman Lawsuit Opposing the Self-Defense Forces in Iraq"
A talk by lawyer Michiko Nakajima. In the course of the Iraq War, citizens in Japan, singly or in groups, have been taking the state to court alleging violation of the "no war" clause of the Constitution in deploying Self-Defense Force troops. Feminist labor lawyer Michiko Nakajima led a group of 15 women plaintiffs in one such suit. This
"Moments of self-portraiture in Mughal painting"
A talk by Monica Juneja Huneke, Visiting Professor of Middle East and South Asian Studies, Emory University. From the South Asia Seminar.
“The Heuristic Potential of the Dream Register of Tipu Sultan of Mysore (r.1782-99)”
A talk by Kate Brittlebank, Senior Lecturer, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania. From the South Asia Seminar.
BCG-K@W Procurement Report: Part 8: Peformance-based Logistics
These days, when the U.S. Department of Defense buys a fighter jet from Lockheed Martin, it doesn't simply pay Lockheed for the physical product. Instead, the government has a "performance-based contract" with the defense supplier, according to Serguei Netessine, professor of operations and information management at Wharton. This contract says, in effect, that the government's reimbursement to Lockheed hinges on the jets' performance -- that is, how often the planes are able to fly. In this inte
Tips on Editing Titles and Descriptions on WatchKnow.org
This WatchKnow video tutorial (a screencast) explains how to fix problems with video titles and descriptions. The video includes: (1) poorly edited titles; (2) how to prevent poorly edited titles; (3) producer name in video title; (4) brief descriptions; (5) how to prevent brief descriptions; (6) description just repeats information found in the title; (7) description covers the subject, but not the plot, type, or quality of the video; (8) description is not edited to be understandable by
Function Transformations – A Virtual Manipulative
Function Transformations – Explore how simple transformations affect the graph of a function. There are more instructions to the right of the manipulative.
Changes in the Air: What Will Come of the Copenhagen Climate Summit?
More than 100 world leaders gathered in Copenhagen on December 7 for a two-week summit meeting whose ambitious aim is to renew the Kyoto protocol on climate change. The issues being discussed include reducing emissions of green-house gases and setting a price for carbon, among others. What are the likely business implications of these issues? What new challenges and opportunities will they create during the coming months? Knowledge@Wharton discussed these topics with Wharton legal studies and bu
creating collections
Herminder Singh
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The Window Observational Research Facility on the International Space Station (PART 2)
This is part 2 of 2 of a video that describes the remote sensing capabilities of the International Space Station (ISS) utilizing the United States Laboratory "Destiny" module science window and the Window Observational Research Facility (WORF). The Lab Window is the highest optical quality window ever installed on a manned space vehicle and permits the use of high resolution cameras and multi and hyper-spectral Earth science remote sensing instruments from within the pressurized volume of the IS
Born Approximation
integral Schroedinger eq. for hydrogen, first Born approx., Yukawa potential
What It Means To Be Japanese-American
Kristi Yamaguchi reflects on what she’s learned about her ancestry and how that affects her feelings about being a Japanese-American. (3:00)
