1.5.1 Late-onset single-gene disorders
This Unit looks at three different uses of genetic testing: pre-natal diagnosis, childhood testing and adult testing. Such tests provide genetic information in the form of a predictive diagnosis, and as such are described as predictive tests. Pre-natal diagnosis uses techniques such as amniocentesis to test fetuses in the womb. For example, it is commonly offered to women over 35 to test for Down's syndrome. Childhood testing involves testing children for genetic diseases that may not become a p
1.11.1 Subject positions In her analysis, Blackman is identifying a pattern in Diana's talk and relating it to other similar methods of self-representation found in our culture. It is worth thinking through this in more detail. One key claim of discourse researchers is that language positions people – discourse creates subject positions. What does this mean? To speak at all is to speak from a position (remember the discussion of footing in the previous section). Further than this, the positions or slots in c
A New Approach to Nuclear Disarmament: Learning from International Humanitarian Law Success
Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. Few issues are more appropriate subjects of humanitarian concern and international humanitarian law than the choice, possession, use and misuse of weapons. A body of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Disarmament Treaty Law has been built up over the last century to control and prohibit a ran
Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?
Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. To stand any chance of getting near to zero, nuclear weapons must be marginalised in military and security doctrines. That means creating international norms and, if feasible, agreements that until nuclear weapons are universally prohibited by treaty, their use will be treated as a crime against hu
Dr. Brian Angus on Tropical Medicine
Writer and medical historian Conrad Keating talks to Dr. Brian Angus, Director of the Wellcome Trust UK Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine in Oxford, about his interest in science and how this inspired him to work with infectious diseases in Africa. Dr Brian Angus originally worked with Professor Nick White in Thailand and joined the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine in 1993. In this wide-ranging discussion with the writer and medical historian Conrad Keating, Brian talks about his wor
016 Composite Systems - Entanglement and Operators
Sixteenth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010
012 Angular Momentum and Motion in a Magnetic Field
Final lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
005 Further TDSE and the Position Representation
Fifth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
014 A Pair of Square Wells and the Ammonia Maser
Fourteenth Lecture in the Quantum Mechanics Course given in Hilary term 2010
008 The Harmonic Oscillator and the Wavefunctions of its Stationary States
Eighth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
001 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Probability Amplitudes and Quantum States
First lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
009 Dynamics of Oscillators and the Anharmonic Oscillator
Ninth lecture of the Quantum Mechanics course given in Michaelmas Term 2009
Head-on train crash in Bangladesh
Several passengers killed and dozens injured as two passenger trains collide.
European Heart Journal: My Cardio Interview: Anthony Tang & Frank Ruschitzka
Anthony Tang in conversation with Frank Ruschitzka
RAFT: The Resynchronization/Defibrillation for Ambulatory Heart Failure Trial
MWV Episode 43 - USA Science and Engineering Festival - Part 2
On October 23 2010, MicrobeWorld attended the first annual USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In part 2 of this two-part video, Stanley Maloy, Dean of the College of Science at San Diego State University, continues his tour of the microbiology related exhibits at the festival.
Featured in this episode are members of the departments of biology and microbiology at the University of Georgia and Idaho State University. Maloy also introduces us to some of th
What Is a Community Technology Center?
In http://tagthink.com say that a community technology center is a place set aside in a town or neighborhood where people can come to use technology. That is the simple definition. Yet, there is so much more to understand about the concept.
European Heart Journal - My Cardio Interview: Adrian Hernandez & Frank Ruschitzka
Adrian Hernandez in conversation with Frank Ruschitzka
ASCEND-HF: Acute Study of Clinical Effectiveness of Nesiritide in Decompensated Heart Failure Trial
European Heart Journal - My Cardio Interview: Frank Zannad & Frank Ruschitzka
Frank Zannad in conversation with Frank Ruschitzka
EMPHASIS-HF: The effect of eplerenone versus placebo on cardiovascular mortality or heart failure hospitalization in subjects with NYHA class II chronic systolic heart failure.
Will Online Streaming Work Out for Netflix?
Once defined by the red envelopes used to deliver DVDs for its mail order service, Netflix has turned its focus toward allowing subscribers to stream movies and other programming directly to their computers and television sets. The move has reaped rewards, including an increasing customer base, but created friction with the entertainment and technology companies Netflix competes with -- and, in many cases, relies on for gaining access to content. Wharton marketing professors Peter Fader and Ragh
