Climate Change and Health
ABSTRACT: Climate change has multiple direct and indirect consequences for human health. Heat waves affect health directly and are projected to take an increasing toll in developed and underdeveloped nations. The 2003 summer heatwave in Europe -- an event six standard deviations from the mean -- led to 21-35,000 excess deaths in five nations, extensive wildfires, crop failures, nuclear plant shutdowns and melted 10% of the Alpine glacial mass. This event and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 demonstrate
UT Professors Discuss Situtation in Japan
University of Toledo Professors held a conference discussing the crisis occurring in Japan as of March 2011
Fiches Kurzweil 3000 Deze originele fiches van Kurzweil 3000 helpen je bij het gebruik van het softwareprogramma voor mensen met dyslexie of andere leesproblemen. Deze info staat ook in de vorm van filmpjes op de website van …
Institucions, empreses i entitats culturals
Aquesta assignatura proposa una primera aproximació a la gestió de la cultura. S'inicia en un primer mòdul contextualitzador sobre la cultura la gestió i les polÃtiques culturals. Seguidament es passa a fer una mirada sobre els diferents agents que intervenen en la gestió de la cultura. I s'analitza el sector privat, el sector públic i el tercer sector, i com aquest intervenen en la gestió de entitats, institucions i empres es culturals. L'assignatura acaba amb una reflexió sobre el nou
9.3 Parents' responses to the risks
A decade ago, the possibility of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism hit the media. Fear of the vaccine spread rapidly and, despite an almost unanimous consensus that the claim was unfounded, still persists today. In this unit, we’ll examine why this controversy took on such a life of its own and why parents still agonise about the vaccine.
3.4.1 Pharmaceuticals or nutraceuticals? Nutraceuticals refers to the use of food supplements or herbal remedies for health purposes. For example, certain ingredients of the herb St John's Wort can be as effective in managing depression as conventional anti-depressants, with fewer negative side effects (Greeson et al., 2001). However, research also shows that this supplement can interact negatively with some commonly prescribed drugs, such as the contraceptive pill. This highlights the need for:
EBI Seminar - James "Ned" Jackson
Envisioning a Renewables-Based Chemical and Energy Industry: Strategies and Transformations for the Biomass Refinery
EBI Seminar Speaker James "Ned" Jackson joined the chemistry faculty at Michigan State University in 1988, where he is now a professor. His research interests include experimental and computational studies of dihydrogen bonding, reactive intermediates, design of organic molecular magnetic materials, and development of renewables-based catalytic pathways to "petrochemicals" and fu
EBI Seminar - Michael Crowley
Large Scale Molecular Modeling of Biomass and the Molecules that Torture It
Michael Crowley, senior scientist at the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado, will speak as part of the 2010-11 EBI
Seminar Series.
The abstract:
Modeling of cell wall components degrading enzymes has taken on an essential role in the search for both understanding of cell walls and cell wall digestion. Our research is directly connected to the experimental efforts at NREL to understand and design b
Integrating long-term experiments & measurements - Harvard Forest
Integrating long-term experiments & measurements -- Adrien Finzi
Harvard Forest Symposium, March 15, 2011
Basic Calculations
Serhat Beyenir
Basic calculations with Excel.
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Of Muses and Mises: A Prelude to Natural Philosophy Pop quiz: who did Murray Rothbard call "the first Greek economic thinker"? Aristotle, you say? Plato? Nope. To quote Rothbard himself: The honor of being the first Greek economic thinker goes to the poet Hesiod.[1] Now, Hesiod was a farmer-turned-poet in a b
Invisible Glass - How to Make an Object Vanish
With just a few ingredients, you will have the power to make a glass vanish right before your eyes! Okay, maybe it's not magic, but a really cool science experiment about index of refraction making an object appear invisible. Steve Spangler does a great job of explaining the science behind this vanishing trick. (03:10)
2.3 Video activity: Discussion
Frontline managers are responsible for gathering service user views on their needs. Whose views should be taken into account? How do managers gather views? This unit helps you consider ways of getting feedback from service users, and shows the inclusive approach of a manager of a voluntary sector mental health service.
Student Report: One person's trash....
http://now.concordia.ca
Sustainable Concordia demonstrates how a wealth of information is wrapped up in every single hefty bag.
Report by Journalism student Laura Göhler
Modèle expérimental de la respiration humaine (video)
A chacune de nos respirations, les poumons se gonflent ou se dégonflent pour inspirer ou expirer de l’air. Or les poumons n’ont pas de muscles. Quel est le phénomène qui leur permet de se dilater ?
Introduction: Why a Book on Writing and Statistical Help for Graduate Students and Faculty?
John R. Slate,
Ana Rojas-LeBouef
This book, A Self-Help and Practical Guide to Preparing Theses, Dissertations, and Manuscripts, is authored by John R. Slate and Ana Rojas-LeBouef from Sam Houston State University. This book is […]
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Network Dynamics in Social Networks
Network Dynamics in Social Networks - UNSPECIFIED
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Rollback: An Interview with Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Design Weather Instruments using LEGO Sensors
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Students will design and create a LEGO structure that will house and protect a temperature sensor. They will leave the structure in a safe spot and check the temperature regularly and chart it.
