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Over the last 50 years, the clinical laboratory has embraced the waves of quality initiatives sweeping other industries. Adaptation of these principles has resulted in matured quality control systems in the 70s-80s followed by quality assurance initiatives in the 90s. In the 2000s quality improvement is gaining and becoming a standard in the industry. All of these have combined in the last few years into quality management systems based on international consensus and standards. Less regimented
Jeff Gold Inaugural Lecture - The Leader's Conundrum or 'You cannot lift yourself up by your own shi
The aim of the lecture will be to do demonstrate the need to challenge continuing traditional images of leaders, often depicted at the apex of things, on top of a hill or at the centre of a complex web of activity. I will argue that those nominated as leaders MUST become aware of what I will call the leader's conundrum and complement their inspiration with 99 x perspiration. To appreciate this call, attendees to the lecture as respectfully asked to do the following just before the lecture:
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Something 's gotta give' architectural animations
Architectural animations are like Harry Langer, a fifty-something entertainment mogul played by best actor nominee Jack Nicholson in the film Something.s Gotta Give. They.ve been surrounded by plenty of pathetic spiritless gimmicks. And, like Harry in the film, they have suffered a heart attack. Harry did not die. Architectural animations are still around, barely. Something.s wrong with them. When Harry begins to recover, he.s surprised to find himself growing fond of a woman his own age (played
21F.039 Japanese Popular Culture (MIT)
This course examines Japanese popular culture as a way of understanding the changing character of media, capitalism, fan communities and culture. Topics include manga (comic books), hip-hop and other popular music in Japan, anime (Japanese animated films) and feature films, sports (sumo, soccer, baseball), and online communication. Emphasis will be on contemporary popular culture and theories of gender, sexuality, race, and the workings of power in global culture industries.
2014 CBA Conference - Steven Keating
Recorded 5-1-14
BattleCode 2014 Finals
Recorded on 2/8/14
The Radical Transparency of the American Republic [Audio]
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Engage Super League: A Skills for Life Learning Resource.
An interactive learning resource booklet on the subject of Rugby League, designed to offer the family fun educational activities to improve basic maths and English.
University of Michigan Health System Patient Education Clearinghouse
Lawrence Bailey - Market Research Valedictory Lecture
Colleagues from both academia and business were present on 27 January 2011 for Lawrence Bailey's guest lecture on Market Segmentation, Qualitative Research and Conversations Across the Garden Wall.
The garden wall of the lecture's title was Lawrence's metaphor for the potential divide between the two sectors.
The lecture reflected Lawrence's career-long wish to get qualitative researchers in the commercial world to talk to their counterparts in the academic world, and vice versa. He discusse
Ready For R.O.A.R. - More Pieces of the Pie
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Does Eastern Europe Still Exist? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Anne Applebaum | The nations of the region we called “Eastern Europe” were once closely linked, so much so that West Europeans had trouble distinguishing them. But since 1989 they have made different choices and taken different paths. Are there lessons which can be learned from the East European experience of reform? Professor Anne Applebaum is the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Discussing "Cesar Chavez": Diego Luna, Arturo Rodriguez, Maria Echaveste and Harley Shaiken
After screening "Cesar Chavez," director Diego Luna discusses the film and the farm workers' movement with:
- Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers;
- Maria Echaveste of the Berkeley Law School, whose parents were ""bracero"" farm workers;
- Harley Shaiken, professor and chair of the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley.
Also commenting: Dolores Huerta, who worked with Chavez to found the United Farm Workers.
This event was co-sponsored by the Center for Latin
Virtual Maths, Shapes, Space and Measure, Calculate Height of Building guide
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SMU B-Roll: Students walking near fountain
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SMU dedicates new Residential Commons complex
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Police arrest four suspected Islamist militants in Spain
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Virtual Maths - 3D shapes, diagram, area, volume
Diagram of 3D shapes with formula for calculating area (and volume)
Enhancing graduate inter-cultural capability and embedding Internationalisation of the Curriculum at
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Professor Michelle Barker of Griffith University, Brisbane Australia and Dr Viv Caruana of CAPRI, Leeds Met University UK discuss recent work in embedding internationalisation of the curriculum across the full range of disciplines and programmes of study at Griffith. Professor Barker also shares insights from a recent ALTC-funded project focused on intercultural or cross-
