Russian tycoon imprisoned until 2017
A Russian judge sentenced former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to six additional years in prison after convicting him of multi-billion dollar theft and money laundering. Jon Decker reports.
With or Without a God: Natural Law and Property Rights [Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith (1995). An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]
Sociable Robots
Cynthia Breazeal makes social robots, machines with the capacity to interact with people on psychological terms. She says they “open up a new world of questions.” But these increasingly sophisticated devices make Sherry Turkle uneasy, since they challenge the idea of human relationships and the very “purp
Manipulating Pages in Acrobat
This video shows you how to rearrange and manipulate pages in Acrobat X Std. or Pro. using the new Pages Panel.
Recognizing Text in Scanned PDF Documents
This video details how to use the new Recognize Text panel in Acrobat X Std. or Pro. to OCR and fix-up text in your PDF file.
Suresh–Lesson 47: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
Lesson 47: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA – भारत में सामुदायिक विकास (See all the lesson from Suresh; See the First Lesson from Suresh; Build Your Vocabulary By Mastering 4 Words [...]
Charles Street Car Park N090665 CHARLES STREET CAR PARK, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Detail view of 'The Cheese Grater'.
Breukentafel : Uithangblad Dit is een uithangblad van de breukentafel. Dit geeft de leerlingen een duidelijk beeld van de grootte van de breuken.
Fears over vote in Sudan border area
Sudanese living on the border between the country's north and south worry how an upcoming vote to split the country will affect their lives.
Academic Perspectives/Panel Discussion
In this wide-ranging discussion, panelists seized on redesigning science education as a way of ensuring the success of systems biology. The first challenge lies in improving instruction in the earliest years. David Botstein said, “K-12 education has never been that great…(kids) don’t need to know everything in excruciatin
Kommagetallen : Oefenboekje tienden en honderdsten Een werkboekje om kommagetallen aan te brengen en in te oefenen op een inzichtelijke manier. Tienden en honderdsten komen aan bod.
Hoeken : Onthoudblad Op het onthoudblad staat de volgende informatie:
Soorten vogels In dit documenten zijn verschillende soorten vogels opgelijst met kenmerken en foto's. In dit document vind je een beschrijving van:
urdu colour by number activity
urdu colour by number activity.
Waarnemingsles de vogel Een les over de vogel en zijn aanpassingen aan het leefmilieu. Ook de delen, vijanden, woning en het voedsel van de vogel wordt besproken.
THINKIDEE 2010 : Winnende projecten Je vindt hier de winnende projecten van de wedstrijd THINKIDEE 2010:
Edgework
Dave Harris
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This RLO has a summary of a key article by Lyng on 'edgework', explaining the pleasures and processes involved in 'extreme' sports, and a clip from a commercial video illustrating some breathtaking snowboarding exploits.The Introduction has some suggested exercises for students. Further reading on the issue of pleasure can be found via the reading guides on this website on the Sociology of Leisure page (http://www.arasite.org/keyconc.html)
Making Sense
Ian Gilhespy
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This is one of a series of learning objects concerning research methods. This object contains an introduction to the reasons why scientific models of making sense differ from rival approaches such as astrology, religion and common sense all of which offer ‘preconceived theories’ with which to understand our experience.
References and Further Reading:
Gratton, C. and Jones, I. (2004) Research Methods for Sports Studies London:Routledg
Introduction to Visual Data
Ian Gilhespy
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This object includes an evaluation of the status and role of visual data in research methods relating to sport, leisure and outdoor adventure. The argument is developed that there is scope for greater sophistication in the analysis of visual data, including mediated data. The claim is made that student research practice may benefit from the teaching of research methods that includes an emphasis on the analysis of visual data, in particular
4.3 Decimals A decimal number is a different way of representing numbers smaller than one. You put them after a full stop (the decimal point), for instance 0.5. The first digit after the decimal point represents tenths. If you sliced a cake into 10 slices, each slice would be a tenth of the cake. So 0.5 is the same as saying 5 tenths, and can be written
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