BILD 2 - Lecture 14 - 11/9/2010
BILD 2 - Lecture 14
What is Déjà Vu?
Hank describes some of the best explanations that neurologists have come up with to account for the strange sensation we know as déjà vu. (03:07)
2.4.1 Organisation of brain cells Some findings that do appear to be more specific to dyslexia are various microscopic anomalies in the actual organisation of brain cells, reported from post-mortem studies (Galaburda et al., 1985). These include collections of slightly ‘misplaced’ cells (called ectopias) and some minor disordering of the regular layering of cells in the cortex. They are often particularly concentrated in left hemisphere regions involved in language processing, although their distribution varies con
2.1 Exploring eBay First, have a look around the eBay system to get a feel for how it works. Go to the eBay website Find an item that interests you, either by clicking on the categories in the left-hand panel … 5.2 A ‘women's town’ The euro experiment: Trial and error 2.2 Going up: using scientific notation for large numbers Think again about the value for the total volume of water stored on Earth: 1460 000 000 km3. When dealing with large numbers such as one thousand four hundred and sixty million (1460 000 000), it is tedious to write the number in words or to keep writing all of those zeros. Worse still, it is very easy to lose some of the zeros or add extra ones by mistake. Fortunately, large numbers can be referred to without having to write out all of the zeros. The powers of ten not In Praise of Old Books I recently purchased the new model of Barnes and Noble's Nook eReader. (I reviewed the older Nook here and Author(s): 11.2 Autism research Horton, R. (2004) ‘The lessons of MMR’, The Lancet, 363, 6 March 2004, pp 747–749 Elsevier. Copyright © 2004 Elsevier. In 1943, Leo Kanner described 11 children with a condition that differed “markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far”.4 He believed that the characteristics of these children, the fundamental feature of whom was their “inability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life”, 5.4 Conclusion You have seen that although the three products you have looked at are very different types of computer, they all embody the same basic functionality and a version of Figure 3 can be drawn for each product to illustrate this. One feature of the PC is the range of forms of secondary memory it can use, and 2.1 Analysing a presentation In this section you listen to a presentation from an employee of the Commission for New Towns about Milton Keynes which takes place during a staff visit there. You analyse the stages of the presentation, practise asking and answering questions, and extract detailed information. You now look at how presentations are organised and hear an example of one. 3.2.1Review your current capabilities, including your preferred learning style Before you begin to plan in detail what you hope to achieve, it is useful to look at relevant examples of previous work or study as well as the feedback you received from different people. This review should help you to confirm those areas you need and/or want to work on. Feedback from others may also point out areas you need to work on which are different from the ones you expected. These areas might relate to specific skills, such as interrogating a database, or they might be more general, 3.7.1 Deafblindness There are about 23,000 deafblind people in the UK. Some are totally deaf and totally blind, while others have some hearing and/or some vision (RNID, 2005, ‘Deafblind people’). Those who are totally blind may read Braille. Totally deafblind people may use the deafblind manual alphabet to communicate if they cannot hear or speak and cannot see sufficiently to use full sign language. The deafblind alphabet allows the ‘speaker’ to spell out words on the ‘listener's’ hand using specifi 1.5 Tips on character creation 3 Enlightenment, science and empiricism The Enlightenment's dedication to reason and knowledge did not come out of the blue. After all, scholars had for centuries been adding to humanity's stock of knowledge. The new emphasis, however, was on empirical knowledge: that is, knowledge or opinion grounded in experience. This experience might include scientific experiments or firsthand observation or experience of people, behaviour, politics, society or anything else touching the natural and the human. For any proposition to be a BIEB 166 - Lecture 11 - 1/29/2010 2.1 Introduction A rapidly growing branch of medical science has begun to try to measure the physiological impact of grief. Incorporated into this study are the ways in which bodily functions change in response to emotional stimuli. This new area of scientific research has been called ‘psychoneuroimmunology’ and is the study of how different feelings and stresses lead to changes in hormone levels and other metabolic functions within the body. These can often be quantified through blood tests and other phy Acknowledgements Course image: Len "Doc" Radin in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and co Conclusion This free course provided an introduction to studying the arts and humanities. It took you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and helped to improve your confidence as an independent learner. BILD 2 - Lecture 13 - 11/4/2010
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Britain was the first country to industrialise, and it acquired the largest empire ever during this same period. But its sphere of economic influence extended far beyond the boundaries of the formal British Empire. This unit focuses on the economics of empire, using a case study of one town, Dundee in eastern Scotland, to explore this huge topic.
Paul Wallace, The Economist’s European economics editor, explores the sources of the euro crisis and assesses the risks that the single currency still faces in his new book
BIEB 166 - Lecture 11
BILD 2 - Lecture 13
