Dr Atif Latif - The excavator
By: ZBW Dr Atif Latif, German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW), describes his activities as a Post Doc researcher in the Knowledge Discovery department of the ZBW.
Red Ribbon Week Landscapes and embryos : A film from A. Martinez Arias Reuters on the Road: Innovation Agency's Grapple with Apps Coastal Carbon and Climate Change A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms Small, crowded apartments are common in Hong Kong, and architect Gary Chang used to live in one of them. Drawing on his own experiences, he created the 'Domestic Transformer' - using sliding panels and walls to morph an apartment into 24 different rooms. VUCast: Meningitis Mystery Solved 3.3.1 Mapmaking for the twenty-first century In early mapmaking history, maps were compiled from travellers’ tales, sailors’ logs and other maps. Information could, therefore, come from various sources and different dates. By the nineteenth century, maps were being made by more technically and scientifically rigorous procedures. Recently, mapmaking has benefited from developments in electronic surveillance techniques and computer programming. The Ordnance Surveys are now using aerial photography coupled with detailed checking on the 2 A day in the life of a hospital ward In 1996, we visited Ward 29, one of two gastroenterology wards in the medical unit, and recorded the views of patients and staff. The ward has 24 beds. Its patients were women and men, across a wide age range, suffering from digestive disorders – for example, stomach ulcers, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, cancers of the digestive system or problems with liver function brought on by alcohol abuse. Because it was winter the ward had more elderly people than it would have at other times 1.1 Leeds General Infirmary To explore care in the setting of an acute hospital, I visited Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) in the winter of 1996. The hospital provides a service of medical and surgical care for local people and, because it is a specialist teaching hospital with a medical school attached, patients are referred from all over the region for specialist advice, treatment and care. The hospital occupies a bewilderingly large, sprawling site in the centre of Leeds. It is a mix of the old and the new, and at the 1.8.1 The experience of Hillsborough We have explored the challenges of entering into situations which are ambiguous and open to competing interpretations. But what happens in a situation where nobody knows what is going on, where established meanings have collapsed altogether? Tom Heller gives a graphic account of such a situation in his description of his experience of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. Click on 'view document' below to read Tom Heller's account of his experiences at Hillsborough. Embedded Digital Tools In Complete Curriculum Lesson Plans Why the Shape of Your Screen Matters Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should be able to: An introduction to energy resources Understanding energy resources involves considering all types of energy source from various scientific 6.1 Introduction Reading 5 ends with a call for a move towards a more ‘deliberative democracy’ in which public engagement takes place in parallel with the development of new technologies, so that opportunities are provided for ongoing dialogue and influence between the two. To help to achieve this, the authors argue, ‘… now is the right time to start experi Learning outcomes After studying this unit you will be able to: retrieve, evaluate and interpret data and information about the Moon, so that (for example) using a close-up picture of the Moon's surface you could identify the types of feature visible and recognise the processes responsible for creating them; interpret simple tables; express, manipulate and compare very small numbers. 9 Unit summary You have learned about the following concepts in this unit: Each type of atom contains a characteristic number of protons in a central nucleus and an equal number of electrons in layers surrounding the nucleus. Elements are substances that consist of only one type of atom. Compounds contain two or more elements combined together. There are two kinds of bond between atoms: covalent and ionic. Molecules are the smallest 7 Ions and ionic bonding This section returns to bonding – the way in which atoms are joined to each other. You have already met one type of bonding involving covalent bonds, which is found in molecules. However, this is not the only bonding found in compounds. In this section you will look at ionic bonding and the ionic compounds that contain such bonding. What is the main difference between the covalent compounds you met in Author(s): 2.3 A closer look at ethical issues Science can define what is practicable, what can be done, but it cannot determine which developments it is right to pursue; this is largely an ethical judgement. One sensible approach in making an ethical assessment is to try to weigh up the benefits of a technology against its potential to do harm. Deciding whether GM technology is acceptable, in ethical terms, then involves a judgement about the plausibility and moral weight of competing sets of claims. Individuals may make widely different
Red Ribbon Week
Movie_0001
Rating 0/10
Views 76
Developmental Biology aims to understand the emergence of an organism from a single cell. It probes embryos with experiments in the hope of unravelling principles that govern the way they are made. The developmental biologist, like the subject of a famous R. Magritte painting (Clairvoyance) looks at an egg and sees the processes that shapes it into chick, a fly, a fish or a mouse. The real artists in this process are the cells and this video tries to capture them at work in different organisms.
Nov. 22 - Grapple CEO Alistair Crane takes the taxi challenge to explain the art of successful mobile commerce
From the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, Duke University's Brian Murray discusses his research findings on the magnitude of "blue" carbon stored in coastal ecosystems. Murray is director for economic analysis at Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
This Week on VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast: How Vanderbilt solved the deadly fungal meningitis mystery Which Vandy alum is now starring on network TV! Bowl game countdown is on!
Video link (see supported sites below). Please use the original link, not the shortcut, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcde
Watching a movie at home isn’t quite the same experience as seeing it at a movie theater -- but why? Learn how changes in aspect ratio affect every film, and why your television might not be delivering the whole picture. (03:32)
