3.3 Physical characteristics of natural waters A river's physical characteristics include: clarity/turbidity colour speed of flow/turbulence odour the presence of plants and macroscopic animal life. The physical characteristics are determined by location, geology and climate of the catchment area. In turn they influence the chemical and biological characteristics of the watercourse. The physical appearance m
Professor Glenn Withers discusses the Asian Century White Paper
Glenn Withers is Professor of Economics in the Crawford School and was founding CEO of Universities Australia. In this video, he gives his analysis of the White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century, and discusses his own submission to the process.
Professor Withers helped to establish the Productivity Commmission, the Crawford School, ANZSOG and Universities Australia. He has been an adviser to private sector and community sector organisations in Australia and overseas, ranging from the Nort
2.1 2.1 What do we mean by ‘region’ and ‘regionalism’? ‘Region’ here refers to any piece of continuous territory, bigger than a mere locality or neighbourhood, which is part of the territory of a larger state (or states), and whose political authority or government, if it has any specific to itself, is subordinate to that of the state(s). Conventionally, most such ‘sub-state’ regions, and particularly most regions defined in terms of political authority, have fallen wholly within the borders of a single state. However, in situations where
Constitutionalism, the politics of power and AIDS
Justice Edwin Cameron, Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and James and Jean Davis Prestige Visitor presents a public lecture on Constitutionalism, the politics of power and AIDS.
6.2 6.2 Looking forward The sovereign authority of states has not been replaced, nor is it likely to be in the foreseeable future, but it is already significantly less clear-cut than it was only some decades ago. Rather than sovereignty being based on a single territorial level, whether that of the state or a scale replica, we are more likely moving toward a situation of segmented, overlapping or shared authority, where regions are one level among several territorial and non-territorial political entities. A f
The Lean Startup [Audio]
Speaker(s): Eric Ries | Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late. Now is the time to think Lean. This event marks the publication of Eric Ries new book Th
Conclusion Perhaps it is a truism to say that all life is full of risk. We encounter many uncalculated outcomes, some beneficial and others adverse. It can be difficult to know which adverse events will prove permanently disadvantageous, since some may lead to innovation and opportunities for the future. Businesses, especially in the financial context, often consider risk in terms of opportunities for gain. Risk in our context is a way of describing the probability and consequences of harm, or at worst
1.2 Connecting human and non-human nature Environmental responsibility – caring and generating accountability – requires interaction between human and non-human nature. For example, from a caring perspective what matters in climate change might constitute, say, the continued existence and protection of an arctic wilderness (Figure 3). But this necessarily involves a conne
3.5 Reactions and reflections Read the Case Study ‘Sarah's story: Sarah and John’ Make notes on the reactions presented in the Case Study. Music Video: Shock & UTK: -ph- & -gh- Army-McCarthy Hearings Religion in history: conflict, conversion and coexistence References Special Exhibition: Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures Elementos de Derecho Privado The Jahiliyya Factor?: Fighting Muslims' Cultural Resistance to Nonviolence CTPI: Public Square, Vulnerable Children, February 2012 Gorillas - 98.6% Human 7.1 Introduction I now want to take forward the notion of a science curriculum for public understanding, identifying problems and opportunities. Our guide in what follows is the Beyond 2000 document, which emerged from a working group led by UK-based science educators, working collaboratively with science teachers, education researchers, professional scientists within unive 4.3 Graphical conversions: How do you use the graph? Look at Figure 9. Start with the map distance on the horizontal scale, move vertically up until you reach the line, then move horizontally until you reach the vertical axis. The number at that point will give you the corresponding ground distance in kilometres.
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Watch -ph- and -gh- help the letter "f" make the "ffffff" it makes. The goals for this segment are consonant digraphs -gh- and -ph-. (0:41)
On June 9, 1954, two-thirds of the way into the 36-day televised Army-McCarthy hearings in which Sen. Joseph McCarthy argued that the U.S. Army was harboring communists, the investigation hits a turning point. When Joseph Welch, the Army's special counsel, accuses McCarthy of having "no sense of decency," the tide of public opinion turns and McCarthy's career is eventually ruined. (1:02)
The coexistence of multiple religious communities has been a source of both opposition and diversity since the very foundation of human civilization. This album explores the interaction of competing communities in compelling depth, highlighting periods and cities that experienced turbulence, and occasionally harmony, from such an intermingling of beliefs and ideas. A huge historical range, from the very beginnings of early Christianity to modern-day Africa, is rigorously examined in cultural, so
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Professor Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Political Science, Thammasat University, Thailand presents Annual Peace lecture - Overcoming cultural resistance to non-violence.
Lecture given Jul 12, 2010.
'Our Vulnerable Children' - a public forum exploring responses to the Government's Green Paper 'Every child thrives, belongs, achieves. Panel: Chris Trotter, Professor Mark Henaghan, Jenny Munro, Dr Pauline Gulliver.
After exploring the issues of human genocide in Darfur and Rwanda, I thought I had lost all hope in humanity....until I had an encounter with the Mountain Gorillas. How ironic the one creature that is deemed all violent would be the most pacifist. This is Explore's most popular film and a must see for everyone.Craig Sholley of AWF teaches us about his organization's efforts to preserve gorillas in Rwanda, of which only 720 remain. Explore the species that is 98.6% the same as human beings. (22:0
