Author(s): up-close@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne) Computing and Global Health: Bridging between Health System Needs and Computing Solutions
UW Professor Richard Anderson is completing a year's sabbatical at PATH, working on computing projects tied to PATH's core mission of improving global health. This discussion focuses on computing solutions to challenges in global health. Projects include: building and deploying a modeling application for vaccine refrigeration capacity; requirements analysis for TB case detection and surveillance reporting in Tanzania; and analyzing communication needs and deploying clinical devices for monitorin
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Kwame Belle: The Oswego Bucket List
Senior Kwame Belle wants to experience all that the SUNY Oswego campus and the Oswego community has to offer. But he needs your suggestions! (Please keep it clean.) Suggestions welcome as well by tweeting @sunyoswego or at http://www.facebook.com/sunyoswego
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UAPD Welcomes New Explosive, Firearm Detection Canine
After eight years on the force and more than 450 assignments, the University of Arizona Police Department retired its first bomb-detection canine, Michael. Taking his place is Toby, a 2-year-old black labrador retriever. Toby is certified by the National Police Canine Association in explosive and firearm detection.
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Higher Resolution Improves Top-Down Protein Identification on Orbitrap Mass Spec for Large Proteins
By: Chrom Solutions David Horn presents his scientific poster on the necessity for high mass resolution (>200,000) for confidence in identification of proteins above 40kDa using yeast enolase. The comparison between various resolution settings for both direct infusion and LC-MS/MS data are shown, using the Thermo Scientific Orbitrap mass spectrometer to improve confidence and sequence coverage for identification of larger proteins.
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Noses Song--(Five Senses)
A song that teaches noses are used for our sense of smell! Young learners will enjoy this cute song about our sense of smell. The video addresses good smells and bad smells. This is a great resource to introduce and/or review the 5 senses in the early childhood classroom. (2:51)
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Cities: Places to Live, Places to Work [Audio]
Speaker(s): Ben Akabueze, Professor Paul Collier, Professor Tony Venables | Urban areas are the most productive parts of the developing world, yet concentrated urban poverty presents some of the biggest policy challenges. By 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population was living in urban areas and it is projected that by 2030 this number will swell to almost 5 billion, with urban growth concentrated in Africa and Asia. This discussion will address the potentia
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Epistemologies from below: Trials and Tribulations of population-based research in transisiotnal soc
Part 2, Panel 2, Day 1 of the Way of Knowing After Atrocity colloquium. Part of the Ways of Knowing After Atrocity: A Colloquium on the Methods used to Research, Design and Implement Transitional Justice Processes (Hosted by Oxford Transitional Justice Research in collaboration with the Transitional Justice Data Base Project) 28-29 June 2012, St. Antony's College, Oxford. Please see http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/OTJRColloquiumNew.php
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CMU Energy Presentation: Clean Coal
Ed Rubin presented at a campus symposium celebrating the launch of Carnegie Mellon University's new Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. Rubin, a professor of Environmental Engineering and Science, Engineering and Public Policy and Mechanical Engineering, presented about clean coal, discussing whether it is an oxymoron or a path to sustainability.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at CMU leverages the expertise of more than 100 faculty from across the university to
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