SDSU Geological Sciences - Thesis Defense - Jeremy Jenson
By: tcarrasc San Diego State University Senior Thesis 2007; BS Candidate
Hydrology of Lee Valley, Jamul, California
Wealth Strategies: Bonds in a "balloon", not a "bubble"
Jan 11 - Morgan Stanley's Jon Mackay says U.S. treasuries won't burst right away, but prices will deflate gradually, and prefers investment grade corporate debt over high-yield or emerging market bonds.
Natural Gas
This video explains how natural gas is transported from places such as Trinidad and Yemen to the Northeast in the middle of the winter when its natural gas reserves run low. (05:29)
Using ZooBurst to Make 3D Pop-Up Books
ZooBurst is an online tool that allows the user to create virtual 3D pop-up books. The user can use clip art objects and backgrounds or upload some of their own. Each user can create 10 books with a free account. This is a tutorial about the basics of how to use this tool. (7:14)
Science Bulletins: Supramap Tracks Diseases as They Evolve
As pathogens mutate they can become more dangerous, developing resistance to drugs or migrating to new host species. Tracking mutations helps scientists determine how and when diseases evolve. Supramap, a recently developed Web application, visualizes the global movement of epidemics. The maps it generates provide a visual record of the evolution and spread of deadly diseases around the world.
Science Bulletins is a production of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technolo
Duke Chapel Live - 1/20/2013
Duke Chapel Live
Organización de la Unión Europea
El objetivo fundamental de Organización de la Unión Europea es proporcionar al alumno una visión global del funcionamiento y de la organización de la Unión Europea (UE). La UE está organizada como un área de integración económica regional, con una organización institucional y jurídica y una organización económica con un mercado interior y una unión económica y monetaria, con una sola moneda, y con un conjunto de políticas y acciones comunes, encaminadas a incrementar la eficacia
Agata Antkiewicz
Agata Antkiewicz, Senior Researcher, Centre for International Governance Innovation, taklks about the role of emerging economies in the global trade system and the significance of new players like China
Economía Española (2009)
El objetivo de la asignatura es proporcionar una visión global
de la ECONOMÍA ESPAÑOLA desde los años sesenta del
siglo pasado hasta la actualidad. En consecuencia en el
curso se abordan:
a) Los determinantes del crecimiento a largo plazo.
b) El estudio del conjunto de los sectores productivos.
c) El tejido institucional.
d) La distribución de la renta.
e) Las relaciones exteriores de nuestra economía.
Todo ello dentro del marco de las tendencias y fluctuaciones
que perfilan la evolución
Globalización, Cobre y la Nueva Economía Chilena
Durante el transcurso del curso se desarrollarán los siguientes temas:
La Nueva Economía chilena
Escenarios futuristas alternativos.
La importancia de las Telecomunicaciones
Tendencias de la economía global, latinoamericana y chilena.
Alianzas virtuosas para el desarrollo: Investigación y Desarrollo en Chile
La Industria minera en general, partiendo de la base que Chile es un país mineral.
El cobre, específicamente, sus características minerales
Machines that change climate: Porsche 911 Turbo vs. Toyota Prius
This activity asks students make 'back-of-the-envelope' calculations to estimate the amount of carbon dioxide released to the environment by different types of automobiles. It shows students that decisions they make can significantly alter the amount of greenhouse gases they release to the environment. It also helps students learn about exponential growth by calculating how the money saved by purchasing an inexpensive car can be invested to great advantage. The exercise is designed for non-scien
Computer Renderings ? ?Reality is Overrated?
In this paper, two problems concerning truthfulness of computer-generated visualization are considered. The first one concerns relationships between reality and its representation by computer renderings. The second problem concerns the kind of representations people need. These problems are analyzed for static perception of architectural forms based on computer visualization, and for dynamic walk-through perception of urban space. The thesis of the paper is that many photorealistic renderings ar
"The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in t
A talk by New York Times journalist Neil MacFarquhar. His book, "The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday" reveals a cross-section of unsung, dynamic men and women pioneering political and social change. There is the Kuwaiti sex therapist in a leather suit with matching red headscarf, and the Syrian engineer advocatin
Predicting a World Cup Winner - into the knockout stages
Following on from our previous World Cup discussion with Henry Stott of Warwick's Psychology Deparment and Decision Technology, we examine how the tournament predictions have performed so far and look forward to the knockout phase of the tournament.
Who has performed better than predicted? Who are the underperformers and are Brazil still favourites to lift the trophy. Have the England performances affected our chances of winning the tournament and what is the impact of the injury to Michael O
Module Two: Interpersonal Relationships
The Interpersonal Relationships Module focuses on developing the life skills of the individual within the context of healthy relationships. Relationships can be with people directly in an individual's environment or with others in the broader community. In order to maintain healthy relationships we need to be aware of the impact we each have on the lives, behaviour, attitudes and values of others.
The First Decade of Informatics in Dutch High Schools
Informatics is currently being taught in high schools all over the world. In the Netherlands, where all students are expected to become computer literate in the lower grades of high school (Hulsen et al., 2005), it has been decided not to consider computer literacy as being part of Informatics. What, then, should be the content of the Informatics curriculum taught in the higher grades? What should be taught, how and to whom? How should students' achievements be assessed? The answers to these que
The pedagogical challenges to collaborative technologies
Collaborative technologies offer a range of new ways of supporting learning by enabling learners to share and exchange both ideas and their own digital products. This paper considers how best to exploit these opportunities from the perspective of learners' needs. New technologies invariably excite a creative explosion of new ideas for ways of doing teaching and learning, although the technologies themselves are rarely designed with teaching and learning in mind. To get the best from them for edu
Modelling the Requirements of an Animated Pedagogical Agent for a Web-Based Learning Environment thr
This paper describes and discusses the importance of having a representation which models the key factors associated to the requirements of an animated pedagogical agent for an interactive learning environment, in particularly, for school students. The IPO (Input-Process-Output) relationships are proposed to address this issue. The formulation of IPO relationship are described in detail and the application of IPO relationship is shown through the case study of specifying the requirements of an a
HazDat Database
HazDat, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database, is the scientific and administrative database developed to provide access to information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations. The following information is included in HazDat: site characteristics, activities and site events, contaminants found, cont
Fire and Ice Zen Den
Video link (see supported sites below). Please use the original link, not the shortcut, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=abcde
