Russia and the Medvedev Presidency - One Year On
Speaking shortly after his election as President of the Russian Federation in 2008, Dmitry Medvedev highlighted his priorities in office: to maintain economic stability, to strengthen freedoms, to promote social programs, and to ensure that Russia sustains its position in the world. A year later, Medvedev's record in delivering on these promises is coming under intense scrutiny. What does Russian resurgence actually mean? How well has Russia ridden out the global financial storm? Is authoritaria
Models for Relating Science and Faith
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne : Course
Undertaking HRD research in HE
This presentation explores the challenges encountered in researching the impact of enterprise modules in HE on students own perceptions of self efficacy and motivation to particular career intentions
The impact of enterprise focussed modules
This presentation outlines the use of a tested research instrument (Bandura's self efficacy theory) and students own perceptions of their enterprise skills and abilities
15.769 Operations Strategy (MIT)
15.769 Operations Strategy provides a unifying framework for analyzing strategic issues in manufacturing and service operations. Students analyze the relationships between manufacturing and service companies and their suppliers, customers, and competitors. The course covers strategic decisions in technology, facilities, vertical integration, human resources, and other areas, and also explores means of competition such as cost, quality, and innovativeness.
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The ITC Industry in Australia
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) leads the
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry in Australia.
AIIA comprises almost 500 member companies that generate combined
annual revenues of more than $40 billion, employ 100,000 Australians,
and export more than $2 billion in goods and services each year.
This public lecture discusses the strategic direction of the Australian
ICT industry and the changes in public policy that are needed to
accelerate business g
The Australia-US relationship: its place in our histories in the context of Asia
One hundred years ago this year the Great White fleet sailed into Sydney harbor to a rapturous reception from Australian's hoping that America would protect us from the threats we feared from rising economic giants in Asia. In 1941 that hope come true. Today Australians still regards American primacy in Asia as the foundation of their security, and they have become perhaps Americas most consistent and supportive ally as a result. But our relationships with Asia has changed a lot since then, and
It’s Every Monkey for Themselves
Taking off to mend a broken heart, Vanessa Woods left safe, suburban
Canberra and headed for the remote, wild and distinctly unsafe jungles
of Costa Rica. She was stung so often by killer bees she developed a
lethal allergy, and the monkeys she was to study were evasive, mean and
aggressive. The only difference between them and her housemates was
that at least she could tell her housemates apart.
In this talk, science writer Vanessa Woods will explain how to survive
a year in the jungle: a world
The Throughcare Map
The Throughcare Map is a guide for social workers, prison staff and others working with offenders in the provision of a throughcare service, from the point of sentence to release and supervision in the community.
The Integrity of American Elections
On the eve of the 2006 U.S. elections, Professor Mayer, this year’s
holder of the Fulbright-ANU Distinguished Professorship in Political
Science, reviews the state of the electoral process in America asking
how effective the process of running elections in the United States is
and how it compares to the management of elections in Australia. In
light of the problems in Florida during the presidential election of
2000 and the subsequent passage of the Help America Vote Ac
What Ostriches Can Teach Us About Risk
A new book by Wharton professors Howard Kunreuther and Robert Meyer offers an innovative solution for addressing the biases that prevent people and groups from adequately preparing for disasters.
HHMI 2010 Holiday Lectures - Fighting Viruses in the Lab and Beyond
Infectious diseases are a serious threat to world health. They are particularly devastating in tropical countries where infectious agents thrive and where healthcare resources are stretched thin. Two leading virus researchers explain how they use both simple and sophisticated technologies to detect and fight infectious agents.
Dr. Eva Harris of UC Berkeley profiles how dengue virus enters cells and how a host's own immune system can prevent effective treatment. Using trial studies, Dr. Harris
6.1 Legitimating the powerful The labelling perspective associated with Berger and Luckmann focuses on the processes by which some behaviours and types of people become marked out for social disapproval – targeted by the wider society as different and requiring some form of social response. Its virtue is that it challenges conventional assumptions that social problems exist ‘out there’ as obvious and commonly understood facts. Berger and Luckmann's perspective stresses the importance of language in shaping how we de
Old MacDonald Had a Farm | Kids Songs and Classic Nursery Rhymes "Witch-Wife" Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) 1.3.11 The significance of the near-death experience The sociologist Allan Kellehear (1995) observes that most studies have had a medical focus, investigating whether near-death experiences could be the result of a lack of oxygen to the brain or another medical or psychological cause. Kellehear suggests that the search for psycho-medical explanations has focused on psycho-neurological and defensive mechanisms emphasising altered status of consciousness or physical functioning and not taken into account the meaning of these experiences. Kellehea Arizona @ UW Volleyball 10/28/2011 - 5th set Time, Stonehenge, and Sundials Illuminated lantern : revealing the heart of Asian cinema
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Edna St. Vincent Millay's love ballad is here portrayed through a fascinating collection of still visual art images, with the words of the poem in text on the screen, without narration. Some of the beguiling, sensual images in this video make it suitable for a mature young adult audience.  Medieval instrumentation is charmingly suited to this pieces, which runs twice the length of the poem due to the amount of artwork.  Useful in visual art study as well as poetry study. (3:41)
Arizona @ UW Volleyball 10/28/2011 - 5th set
A short video moving through the history of human attempts to measure and record time. Daniel Boorstin, author of "The Discoverers" commented that "The first grand discovery was time, the landscape of experience." This video is intended as an introduction to the three accompanying videos on designing and constructing sundials: The four videos in this series are "Time - 1", "Our Planet is a Clock - 2", "Sundials and Latitude - 3" and "Create a Sundial - 4" (07:04)
'Illuminated Lantern' is a scholarly weblog, freely offering substantial essays and many reviews on Asian cinema. The aim is to bridge... "the cultural gap between Asian Cinema and western audiences by identifying and exploring historical, cultural, and sociological aspects of our favorite movies." From the main page, users can read short reviews of films made in: Mainland China; Hong Kong; Japan; India; Thailand; Taiwan; South Korea; and Cambodia. Reviews are also available on Western-funded f
