Girls Exploring Physics
Given that women make up less than 25 percent of Canadian graduate students pursing physics, SFU physicist Sarah Johnson hopes her workshop "Girls Exploring Physics" will draw girls to the discipline.
Johnson says the initiative, running for a second consecutive year in 2011, targets girls in senior high school because "this is about the age when girls become less interested in physics and engineering. A lot of girls take high-school physics but there's a big drop off in their interest in the d
1.1 Overview of Mozart's sonatas
This unit introduces ‘voice-leading’ or ‘Schenkerian’ analysis, perhaps the most widely-used and discussed method of analysing tonal music. In this unit, this method is explained through the analysis of piano sonatas by Mozart. The unit is the first in the AA314 series of three units on this form of harmonic analysis, and concentrates on the ‘foreground level’ of voice leading. As you work through this unit, you will become familiar with five complete movements of Mozart’s piano
Zebra mussel current distribution
In the last 20 years, zebra mussels have spread from the Great Lakes to most major freshwater areas in the Eastern United States.
Learn Hindi Daily Show – How old are you? – dda – Internal Compulsion
“How old are you?” If you are old enough, you probably “Have to learn Hindi.” You might feel compelled to learn Hindi. These are just two of the things that...
We've Come a Long Way, Baby!
Students discuss several human reproductive technologies available today pregnancy ultrasound, amniocentesis, in-vitro fertilization and labor anesthetics. They learn how each technology works, and that these are ways engineers have worked to improve the health of expecting mothers and babies.
Smoke, Mirrors, and Inflation Expectations Some influential commentators believe that the Federal Reserve's timing for the withdrawal of its record monetary stimulus could be determined by inflation expectations. (A popular measure of inflation expectations is the difference between the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note and the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury inflation protected security [TIPS]). After settling at 1.5 p
1.1 Reporting international financial information This unit is not concerned with how accounting information is captured or stored, nor how it is used internally within an international group, although those are certainly significant issues, but rather with how public financial statements are prepared, audited and used. Essentially, we are dealing with how reports on a company's financial situation are compiled for external purposes and how that compilation is constrained and shaped. Reporting rules are not exactly the same in any two countr
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NSIPP: North America Water Vapor and Soil Moisture
An animation of atmospheric water vapor and soil moisture from December 1999 through June 2000 for North America from the NSIPP global climate model
TRMM Biomass Burning - Smoke Inhibits Rainfall: Water Droplet Size, Precipitation and Fires March 1,
Correlated water droplet size, precipitation, and fires over northern Borneo on March 1, 1998
Hardy-Weinberg Principle
This 15 minute video is about theHardy-weinburg principle. The Hardy-Weinburg principle is the principle thats states that both allele and genotype frequencies stay the same, however there are arguments that randomly breeding may make the Hardy-Weinburg principle not apply. This video uses a graphic cartoon image and lecturer.
Inner Rocky Planets - Part 1
This video focuses on the little jagged worlds (or Inner Rocky Planets) from their birth to this day, and their compositions, structures, and their differences. (08:29)
"The Poisonous Occupations in Illinois": Physician Alice Hamilton Explores the "Dangerous Trades" at
Nineteenth-century laborers faced a variety of work-related ailments: from rheumatism and pneumonia to lead palsy and carbon monoxide poisoning. Yet governments rarely regulated workplace conditions and the United States lagged far behind industrialized European nations in such regulation. In the Progressive era, however, a movement to regulate dangerous industrial working conditions arose, and one of its most prominent leaders was a physician named Alice Hamilton. In this selection from her 194
WERNER SYNDROME
"Progeria" derives from Greek for 'prematurely old' because the disease usually appears as wrinkling and aging of the face. Progeria occurs in two forms: Progeria of childhood, described by Jonathan Hutchinson (1886) and Hastings Gilford (1897), diagnosed in the first or second year of life and Progeria adultorum commonly indicated as Werner Syndrome. Werner Syndrome is a very rare disorder, with incidence of 1000 cases reported worldwide. Incidence is higher in Sardinia and in Japan with 800 ca
The Great, Mighty, Brilliant A.R.J. Turgot [Introduction to The Turgot Collection: Writings, Speeches, and Letters of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (2011)] Anne Robert Jacq
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5.04. Joint Ownership of the Product by the Owners of the Factors The Fundamental Difference between Fairs and Markets [Excerpted from chapter 4 in part 1 of the The Turgot Collection (2011). Originally written in 1757.] The word fair, which is derived from forum, a public square, was originally synonymous with t
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