'Making the Case for Aid' Spencer Henson, IDS
Dangerous Ideas in Development 'Making the Case for Aid: the Challenge of UK Public Perceptions' 9 February 2010
Speakers: Spencer Henson, Research Fellow at IDS; Paul Mylrea, Director of Communications, Department for International Development; Sarah Woods and Cathie Mahoney at Comic Relief.
Aid budgets face immense pressure – despite the explicit commitments of the world’s industrialised countries to the Millennium Development Goals. With the world econo
SER/ESTAR
SER/ESTAR
How to raise capital without giving away your company
Entrepreneur Anat Bar-Gera on how to raise capital without giving away your company
Lecture 24 - 11/17/2010
Lecture 24
Economic Update: Fake Competition, Real Cooperation
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Translational Protein Design
Dr. David Baker, UW Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the UW Institute for Protein Design (IPD) presents this edition of the Presidential Entrepreneurial Lecture. Dr. Baker discusses his Rosetta software suite, how the entrepreneurial spirit of his lab has led to the formation of several UW commercial spin-off companies, and the projects he has in store aimed at future therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Dr. Baker is recognized worldwide for his breakthroughs in creating new protein
7.3 Systematic approaches
Diagrams, mind-maps, tables, graphs, time lines, flow charts, sequence diagrams, decision trees: all can be used to organise thought. This unit will introduce you to a variety of thinking skills. Asking and answering questions is at the heart of high-quality thinking. Questions naturally arise from the desire to know and learn about things and may be the starting point for a journey of understanding.
7.1 Hierarchies of ideas
Diagrams, mind-maps, tables, graphs, time lines, flow charts, sequence diagrams, decision trees: all can be used to organise thought. This unit will introduce you to a variety of thinking skills. Asking and answering questions is at the heart of high-quality thinking. Questions naturally arise from the desire to know and learn about things and may be the starting point for a journey of understanding.
8.2 Writing in your own words Active reading, or reading and thinking, are bound up with writing in your own words. If you read materials in a passive way, you are much more likely to copy out chunks word for word when you are note taking, and in the process generate very long notes indeed! Similarly, if you do not spend time thinking about what you have read, asking questions and checking your understanding, you will be tempted to copy out difficult bits or simply try to reorder the author's words. In the latter case you
Mathematics in the real world
Inspired by Évariste Galois's attempts to express symmetry using mathematical equations, Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores the inextricable link between the physical world and mathematics.
Cataloging quality as a communicative process
The presentation discusses the usage of the online catalog by library staff, and showed the impact of staff's needs on quality of cataloging, in her remarks, "Cataloging quality as a communicative process." The presentation focused on methods of quality improvement of OCLC member records. Records have a communicative nature: in the contemporary era of copy cataloging, records are crafted for copying. Peers in OCLC and public services staff in a local library are two important groups that motivat
Lecture 16 - 11/18/2010
Lecture 16
Die Deutschen in Toulouse
Dans le cadre des interviews allemandes pour la rubrique VO sur Canal U, nous jetons aujourd'hui un regard sur « les Allemands à Toulouse ». Ils sont environ 10.000 à vivre dans l’agglomération toulousaine, la plupart d’entre eux à Pibrac, Blagnac, Colomiers et Tournefeuille.
Lorsqu’on parle de la « présence allemande » à Toulouse, on pense surtout à des entreprises telles que Airbus et EADS. Mais depuis les années 1960 un réseau allemand particulièrement dense et
1.7 Conclusions
How do we learn? Understanding ‘how’ is the key to learning more effectively. This unit looks at the three main categories of theories: the acquisitive, constructivist and experiential models of learning. There is no right way to learn but developing an active approach will ensure that you are open to new ideas.
2.3 Choosing your voice: exercise
In this unit we will consider how language can be used in different ways for different purposes. To do this we will use the theme of memorial and commemoration. In the first section we briefly discuss the life of the poet Siegfried Sassoon before examining both his poetry and prose. Through this we will see how he conveys meaning in different ways for different audiences using different forms. Following this we discuss more generally how different meanings can be conveyed using prose and poetic
1.3 The realities of war – a protest
In this unit we will consider how language can be used in different ways for different purposes. To do this we will use the theme of memorial and commemoration. In the first section we briefly discuss the life of the poet Siegfried Sassoon before examining both his poetry and prose. Through this we will see how he conveys meaning in different ways for different audiences using different forms. Following this we discuss more generally how different meanings can be conveyed using prose and poetic
Introduction to Psychology
What do your dreams mean? Do men and women differ in the nature and intensity of their sexual desires? Can apes learn sign language? Why can't we tickle ourselves? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams. We will look at how these aspects
Eva Holtby Lecture: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acclaimed literary critic Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., this year's distinguished speaker, presents The Image of the African in Western Art. Dr. Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and now the host of the PBS television mini-series African American Lives. The opinions expressed in this lecture are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the
Introduction You may have met complex numbers before, but not had experience in manipulating them. This unit gives an accessible introduction to complex numbers, which are very important in science and technology, as well as mathematics. The unit includes definitions, concepts and techniques which will be very helpful and interesting to a wide variety of people with a reasonable background in algebra and trigonometry. This unit is from our archive and is an adapted extract from Complex analysis (M33
Sociale psychologie : Bundel Uitgebreide bundel van meer dan 50 bladzijden waarin je een samenvatting vindt van sociale psychologie en korte artikels over inzichten in de psychologie. Indeling:
