6.2 A systematic approach to risk assessment
Headline news scares about stolen or missing data are becoming a frequent occurrence as organisations rely more and more heavily on computers to store sensitive corporate and customer information. This unit discusses the importance of protecting information and gives an overview of information security management systems.
The Water Cycle - by StudyJams
The water cycle is the constant movement of water through the Earth and its atmosphere. Water on the ground evaporates, becoming water vapor. The vapor rises, becomes clouds, and then falls back to the Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail. Learn more about the water cycle with this cartoon animation from StudyJams. A short, self-checking quiz is also included with this link.
How To Clean With Baking Soda
This video gives many practical tips for using baking soda for household cleaning. Suggestions given include using baking soda to clean tubs, counters, and carpets, freshening laundry, and unclogging sinks. The process for each is demonstrated. ( 2:21)
Guidance on Trainees' Leave and Minimum Days on Placement
Guidance on Trainees' Leave and Minimum Days on Placement
What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common?
Students are presented with information that will allow them to recognize that yeasts are unicellular organisms that are useful to humans. In fact, their usefulness is derived from the contrast between the way yeast cells and human cells respire. Specifically, while animal cells derive energy from the combination of oxygen and glucose and produce water and carbon dioxide as by-products, yeasts respire without oxygen. Instead, yeasts break glucose down and produce alcohol and carbon dioxide as th
Harry Potter - Quiz
So what do you know about Harry Potter?
Food and Drink - Quiz
An eight question quiz to test your scientific knowledge of food and drink
Food and Drink in Nursery Rhymes - Quiz
Children will enjoy the challenge of remembering which nursery rhyme is being referred to in this quiz. It will test their long term memory.
Injury Prevention Tips
Simple Fact-sheet outlining 17 injury prevention tips.
Lake Effects of Lake Michigan, faster push-in
Todays SeaWiFS image of Lake Michigan shows a lake effect where clear dry air moves eastward as it traverses the lake and forming dense clouds by the time it reaches the Michigan shore.
TAO-TRITON Array: Multi-animations of Buoy Locations
This series of animations was developed for a PBS NOVA episode on El Nino-La Nina.
Changes in Glacier Bay: Johns Hopkins Glacier
Changes in Glacier Bays Johns Hopkins Glacier from 1973 to 1986
Vaccinologie 2011 - Évolution des virus grippaux, conséquences immunologiques
Thème : Vaccination antigrippale et immunodépression
Titre : Vaccinologie 2011 - Évolution des virus grippaux, conséquences immunologiques
Auteur : Flore ROZENBERG (Virologie, Hôpital Cochin)
Résumé : description des virus grippaux : influenza A (oiseaux, mammifères), influenza B et C (homme quasi exclusivement). Virus Influenza : la particule virale, types, sous-types, variants. Réplication du virus Influenza, évolution, structure cristallographique, tropisme, d
Vaccinologie 2011 - Vers des vaccins antigrippaux plus immunogènes.
Thème : Vaccination antigrippale et immunodépression
Titre : Vaccinologie 2011 - Vers des vaccins antigrippaux plus immunogènes : perspectives
Auteur : Martine DENIS (Laboratoires Sanofi-Pasteur)
Résumé : La grippe peut survenir chez les personnes âgées malgré la vaccination. Analyse des réponses humorales après administration de vaccins monovalents A/H1N1 +/-adjuvant, population immun sénescente.
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Poetry in the Irish class
Introduction and suggestions as well as various teaching methods of poetry.
Buffalo Flyover: April 12, 1998
Zoom onto metropolitan centers from wide angle views, 11 seconds each.
Detroit SeaWiFS True Color Stills
SeaWiFS true color still images of Detroit for 36 dates from September 15, 1997 to August 2, 1998
NDVI for the United States as of May, 2002
New satellite-derived images of vegetation confirm extremely dry conditions exist that are ripe for fires in the western United States, according to a data collaboration between NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service.
Sea stars
Sea stars live in low tide areas and eat both plants and animals. On the underside of sea stars' arms are tube feet which use water and muscular forces to suction to rocks, move, and capture prey.
The Remarkable Cocklebur: Worldwide Hitchhiker and Nature's Velcro
This essay from Wayne's Word explores the hitchhiking method of seed dispersal, and how a closer look at one of these bur plants gave rise to an invention.
