Losing the Business: The Donners Recall the Great Depression
Created in 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided hope and employment for millions of unemployed workers and studied the human toll of the depression. One such study--a series of WPA-conducted interviews with Dubuque, Iowa families--found that middle-class Americans particularly felt the sting and shame of unemployment caused by the depression. In this interview, the Donners discussed the closing of their family-owned printing business in Chicago during tough times. Returning to
1.3.5 Histograms and scatterplots: summary
This Unit will introduce you to a number of ways of representing data graphically and of summarising data numerically. You will learn the uses for pie charts, bar charts, histograms and scatterplots. You will also be introduced to various ways of summarising data and methods for assessing location and dispersion.
Mahara Tutorial 1: Registrierung (de)
Screencast für die Verwendung eines E-Portfolio Tools (Mahara) für das EU-Projekt MOSEP. Teil 1: Registrierung
1 0 Introducing data
This Unit will introduce you to a number of ways of representing data graphically and of summarising data numerically. You will learn the uses for pie charts, bar charts, histograms and scatterplots. You will also be introduced to various ways of summarising data and methods for assessing location and dispersion.
Next Steps
This unit is intended to further develop your understanding of Newtonian mechanics in relation to oscillating systems. In addition to a basic grounding in solving systems of differential equations, this unit assumes that you have some understanding of eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
5.4 The ozone hole
To be able to understand the importance of the environment for our health, we need to know a little about the interdependence between environment and humankind. This unit will look at interactions between plants, animals and the physical and chemical environment, as well as considering ways in which humans have altered, and are altering this environment. These changes have health implications that are not always immediately obvious. Frequently, we initiate changes that are going to have their ef
6.6.3 Identify ways of further developing your IL skills Think about your overall IL skills and suggest areas where you feel you need to improve, based on the experience you have gained. You might find it useful to discuss with your tutor, manager, another student or work colleague how you might do this. There may be changes you feel you need to make so that you can move forward, such as trying to extend the facilities and resources available to you, changing the way you study to make best use of the time you have, or focusing on improving your own
Ion Exchange Chromatography
This website contains an ion chromatography simulator that can be run on-line or can be downloaded. The simulator focuses on separations of proteins using Ion Chromatography. Also included is hyperlinked reference information, an example of a homework assignment using the simulator, and some information on protein structures.(note this is an archived version of this site, as the original has been moved).
4.2.2 ATM layer The primary functions of the ATM layer are associated with the routing and switching of ATM cells. Because ATM cells are packets, the switches are packet switches and the switching operation can be called forwarding, but by convention, because the ATM layer provides a connection-oriented service, the term ‘forwarding’ is generally not used. The path cells take and the resources allocated to them depend on their service category. This is determined when a virtual connecti
The University of Memphis minute for the week of April 1, 2011.
The University of Memphis minute for the week of April 1, 2011.
Lecture 5b: Functional Analysis - Infinite products and Tychonoff's theorem
The sixth class in Dr Joel Feinstein's Functional Analysis module is a revision of finite products of topological spaces.
Further module materials are available for download from The University of Nottingham open courseware site: http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=bd32d53b-3c12-ac19-176b-d9e112731951 and on iTunes U: http://itunesu.nottingham.ac.uk/albums/64.rss
Dr Feinstein's blog may be viewed at: http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com
Dr Joel Feinstein is an Associate Pro
Thunderbird Vision 2020
Thunderbird School of Global Management Vice President Joan Neice introduces the school's Vision 2020.
Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky
With over 365 known miles of cave passageways, Mammoth Cave is the world's longest cave. Besides its spectacular size, Mammoth Cave has an almost surreal beauty. Remarkable stories of human history, 350 million-year-old rocks and its fascinating animals adapted to life in the dark make Mammoth Cave a place you must visit. (01:09)
U.S. employment jumps in March
Private payrolls jump in March as the unemployment rate hits a two-year low of 8.8 percent.
WebGURU
This site is a wonderful resource for undergraduate researchers and their mentors. Topics covered include research nuts and bolts, funding your science, scientific ethics, lab safety, communicating your science and mentoring issues. The site makes good use of case studies, self-study questions and references on each topic.
Kinetic Capillary Electrophoresis(KCE): A conceptual Platform for Kinetic Homogeneous Affinity Metho
Kinetic Capillary Electrophoresis is a family of methods for studying binding of biopolymers, measuring rate constants, binding constants, and in some cases providing mechanistic details. This Online Article is a presentation by the originators of this family of techniques ready for classroom or independent use.
Electronics - Tutorial
An encyclopedic collection of descriptions of electronics circuitry and principles to introduce or reacquaint readers with a wide variety of concepts. The site is very well organized to access the information needed. In addition to passive and active components, electricity and magnetism are also described.
Amplified DNA Product Separaration for Forensic Analysts
This website is part of the President\'s DNA Initiative and is devoted to past and current methods of macromolecules such as DNA. This site reviews the analytical technologies of electrophoresis. Discussed are the differences between agarose and polyacrylamide electrophoresis. The basic principles of capillary electrophoresis and its advantages for conducting forensic DNA analysis are detailed. The site is designed as an on-line short course with excellent graphic support. The user must register
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Exhibition
This Web site, created to complement an American Museum of Natural History exhibition, has a thorough reporting of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic voyage. The Exhibition is an overview of the traveling exhibit, which features photographs, diary excerpts, artifacts, and the actual lifeboat from the expedition, as well as an interactive simulation.
