Triple Kidney Swap Participants Meet for First Time
Six patients involved in a triple kidney swap conducted at the University of Maryland Medical Center met for the first time on July 8, 2011. Each recipient originally came to the hospital with an intended donor: a spouse, a sibling and a church friend. However, when the blood and tissue typing revealed their intended donors were not a match, all three pairs entered UMMC's Paired Kidney Exchange (PKE) Program, which seeks to create swaps among incompatible pairs. The transplants took place on Jun
L'Imparfait
Introductory grammar worksheet describing the imperfect tense.
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Hearing Loss (Spanish)
This patient education program promotes better understanding of hearing loss by reviewing the causes of hearing loss, the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options, as well as tips for coping with hearing impairment. It also describes the anatomy of the outer, middle, and inner ear. This is a MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute.
Life cycle of the Monarch butterfly
The life cycle of the Monarch butterfly consists of larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult (butterfly).
Lake Mead Shrinks!
Lake Mead reservoir is nestled between Arizona and Nevada and runs up to the Hoover Dam. The reservoir stores Colorado River water and supplies it to farms, homes and business in Southern Nevada, Arizona, southern California and northern Mexico. Scientists at NASA are releasing dramatic pictures of the dwindling water supplies in the drought-stricken western United States. According to the Bureau of Reclamation, the Colorado Basin is in its fourth year of drought and computer models project wate
Flight Day 12 Wake Up Song and Greeting
The video with audio can also be viewed here: http://1.usa.gov/rnAQBJ
The Flight Day 12 wakeup music was "Don't Panic" by Coldplay, which was played for Pilot Doug Hurley. This was the last wakeup song played for a shuttle crew while docked to the International Space Station.
2.4.4 Communication skills You may be interested to know that our word ‘communicate’ comes from the Latin word communicare meaning ‘to give’ or ‘to share’. So from the start communication is seen to involve more than one person. Whenever we are interacting with other people we are communicating with each other. Communication can, of unit, take many forms. It applies to interaction when one person talks to another. But the listener is also, at the same time, communicating. They may be c
Pain molecule discovery opens door to new treatments
July 15 - Scientists in the UK have discovered the molecule that causes pain in sunburn, and say further research could lead to treatments for other inflammatory conditions like arthritis and cystitis. Basmah Fahim reports.
Musical Junk
Children explore the sound possibilities in everyday household objects.
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- Graduate Lecture Series
October 14th, 2010 | Timken Lecture Hall
For several decades Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano has critically examined cultural representations of Chicana/o queer sexualities, subjectivities, bodies, and desires. Her writings address a variety of media, from literature, visual art, performance, and theater to film and video. She is a professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Stanford University. Her books include Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega and The Wounded Heart: Writing on Ch
Droughts, floods may permanently plague U.S. midwest: author
July 18 - A severe water shortage is gripping 14 states -- from Florida to Arizona -- and author of "The Ripple Effect" Alex Prud'Homme sees more droughts and flooding wreaking havoc in the U.S. over the next few years.
MBA Insight Promise based management: How to create a 'promise' culture in an organisation Discussions around the round table at Garanti Bank Entrepreneurship and the Executive MBA First briefing of the 'crisis compendium' - Part three, Professor Lucrezia Reichlin How should decision-makers prepare for the upturn? Four steps to protect your business and grow during a downturn The Hunting Dogs of Papua New Guinea
Associate Dean, Julia Tyler, talks to Mica Bevington about the MBA programme at London Business School and shares some exciting new developments on the MBA programme, as well as giving an insight into the applications process.
In the final of his three-part podcast series on promise based management, Donald Sull, Associate Professor of Management Practice, explores how to encourage people to consistently make good promises and deliver results.
Don Sull speaks with former Garanti Bank CEO Akin Ongor about forming round table groups so that top managers would work together to align the priorities of the organisation.
John Mullins, Associate Professor of Management Practice in Entrepreneurship, talks about the exciting learning environment on the Executive MBA
Lucrezia Reichlin, Professor of Economics interprets the latest economic statistics in relation to other recent recessions and suggests a second dip in 2009 is possible
Jean-Christophe Bedos, CEO of Boucheron, discusses the best way for decision-makers to prepare their business for the upturn
Dr. Gita Piramal, Chairman of Ergo, gives a guide to the four steps needed to protect and grow your business in the downturn
Learn about the role of dogs in the culture of Papua New Guinea in this video segment from Nature.
