1.1 The wider context This course explores the management of local knowledge-generating practices with regard to their wider contexts. Although these local practices might be considered in terms of individuals acting and thinking as if they were autonomous, independent agents interacting with other agents, such practices are simultaneously shaped by shared skills and understandings. As Karl Marx pointed out, when the hero of Daniel Defoe's (1660–1731) novel Robinson Crusoe (Defoe, 1994, first published in
2.5 Clusters A striking contradiction of the internet revolution is that, although cyberspace allows firms to be located anywhere, they still seem to cluster together in global cities such as New York, London and Sydney (Castells, 2001). Four years after publishing a book proclaiming The Death of Distance, Frances Cairncross noted in the book's second edition that, ‘Economists, most of whom have long ignored or despised economic geography, are now taking a fresh interest in it’ and, after revie
18.S096 Topics in Mathematics of Data Science (MIT)
This is a mostly self-contained research-oriented course designed for undergraduate students (but also extremely welcoming to graduate students) with an interest in doing research in theoretical aspects of algorithms that aim to extract information from data. These often lie in overlaps of two or more of the following: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, and / or Operations Research.
2.5 Other aspects of writing Now we will look at the way Philip and Hansa wrote and presented their essays. Did you find them both easy to read? As regards Philip's, my answer is, ‘yes and no’. It is sometimes easy because he has a fluent way with words. But it is often difficult because he does not use enough punctuation to help us make sense of his words, and because of certain mistakes he makes. I found Hansa's essay easier to read. Her writing is more technically correct and more assured than Philip's. But
4.1 PROMPT There is so much information available on the internet on every topic imaginable. But how do you know if it is any good? And if you find a lot more information than you really need, how do you decide what to keep and who to discard? In this section we are going to introduce a simple checklist to help you to judge the quality of the information you find. Before we do this, spend a few minutes thinking about what is meant by information quality. 2.2 The role of technology in the broadcast news industry
Taylor starts with some introductory comments. Notice the informal style he uses because this is essentially a script for a talk to a colloquium. Notice also the other issue that I raised earlier, that Taylor is assuming that his listeners are fami Duke Medicine Profiles: Will Eward, MD, DVM What Is The Spring Equinox? 7.342 G-Protein Coupled Receptors: Vision and Disease (MIT) 2.3 Synchronous and asynchronous message passing
Synchronous message passing involves one entity (usually a client) in the message passing process sending a message and a second entity (usually a server) receiving it, carrying out some processing and then sending back some response which the first entity processes in some way. While the second entity is carrying out the processing the first entity pauses waiting for the response. In asynchronous message passing each entity in the process does not have to wait for the next part Reflections on Leadership: 21st U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services | Kathleen Sebelius Abraham Lincoln 1.2.4 Conveying information to others Diagrams are used extensively in most types of texts, but why do authors use them? There are two main reasons: to illustrate what something looks like; to demonstrate how objects or ideas or quantities are organised or related. But there is also a subsidiary reason I hinted at. Authors also use diagrams: to decorate and enhance the text to make it more pleasing to read. African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement Governor John Carlin Interview Introduction Privacy has long been recognised as one of the important human rights and this is reflected in religion and history. There are, for example, references to privacy in the Qur'an, the Bible and Jewish law. Privacy was also protected in classical Greece and ancient China. The protection of privacy is seen as a way of drawing the line to indicate how far society can intrude into a person's affairs. Privacy encompasses an individual's liberty to choose how they lead their lives, freedom from Mathematical models: from sundials to number engines Kathy Yelick at the 2011 DOE JGI User Meeting Managing Digital Consumer Influence in Luxury Fondation Croix-Rouge française 2015 : Accompagner les personnes en situation de ...
Taylor's introductory comments
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Meteorologist Jim Cantore and Winter Weather Expert Tom Niziol explain what the Spring Equinox is. (01:00)
How do we communicate with the outside world? How are our senses of vision, smell, taste and pain controlled at the cellular and molecular levels? What causes medical conditions like allergies, hypertension, depression, obesity and various central nervous system disorders? G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) provide a major part of the answer to all of these questions. GPCRs constitute the largest family of cell-surface receptors and in humans are encoded by more than 1,000 genes. GPCRs convert
Kathleen Sebelius, the 21st U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, spoke at the Harvard School of Public Health as part of the Voices in Leadership series on October 21, 2014. Watch the entire leadership series at www.hsph.me/voices.
The Voices in Leadership webcast discussion series at Harvard School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio
Documentary- Abraham Lincoln is credited by many with saving a nation. From humble beginnings to a tragic end, follow the events that shaped the life of the United States' 16th President.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence
Vincent J Intondi on his new book, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
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Introduction
Elaine Scarry
Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University
Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Vio
Kansas Governor John Carlin held office from January 8, 1979 to January 12, 1987. He was elected to the Kansas legislature in 1970 and was Minority Leader of the House from 1975-1977; then Speaker of the House from 1977-1979, when Democrats unexpectedly won a majority. In 1978, Carlin upset incumbent Governor Robert Bennett's re-election bid by only 16,335 votes. The interview is the basis for Dr. Bob Beatty's article, "Be willing to take some risks to make things happen," published in Kansas Hi
Since the dawn of civilisation, humans have used everyday materials to create mathematical models of the world around them. This album explores the ancient Greeks' astrolabe as a model of the skies; the sundial, to tell the time; Babylonian clay tablets to record wages and trading of sheep; wooden tallies for bulk-buying beer, the Incas' use of knots and string, and the sophisticated number-engine invented by Charles Babbage. This material forms part of The Open University course MST121 Using ma
Kathy Yelick of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center on "Hardware and Software Trends in Computational Systems for Biology" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.
The democratisation of the Internet has led to the emergence of influencers who sometimes have more followers, reach and influence than brands themselves. How can luxury brands manage and engage with such influencers?
Colloque de 2015 de la fondation Croix Rouge Française : Travail et lien social.
Intervenante : Tihana CEHO, Responsable de service pour la permanence de Roissy-CDG de la Croix-Rouge française
ACCOMPAGNER LES PERSONNES EN SITUATION DE VULNERABILITE PROFESSIONNELLE
Modérateur : Françoise FROMAGEAU, Secrétaire nationale de la Croix-Rouge française
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