The Fruits of the Genome for Society PDF - February 17, 2010
Lunch 'n Learn presentation: The sequence of the human genome, the primary goal of the Human Genome Project, was achieved just a few years ago. Because our genomes are a string of 3 billion sequences of four chemical letters in the DNA polymer, the ability to obtain genomic sequences depended on revolutionary progress not just in DNA chemistry but also on the equally revolutionary advances in speed, capacity and versatility of digital computers. By far the most prominent result of the determinat
Digital Journalism: Scan and Analysis of Best Practices in Digital Journalism Both Within and Outsid
CSM - Publications & Resources - Digital Journalism: Scan and Analysis of Best Practices in Digital Journalism Both Within and Outside U.S. Public Broadcasting - American University > TEACHING AND LEARNING AT AU > Center for Social Media > Publications & Resources > Digital Journalism: Scan and Analysis of Best Practices in Digital Journalism Both Within and Outside U.S. Public Broadcasting
North Korea, what is inside?
North Korea has often been described as a huge black box. This is not the case any more: an increasing number of sources provide us with good knowledge of the country's domestic developments. Nonetheless, it is important to be aware of the limits of our knowledge and clearly differentiate between hard facts and plausible rumours. This presentation will provide an overview of some current trends in North Korea, combining it with critical analysis of the available sources. It will deal with the le
The Great Crash of 2008
This public forum will discuss The Great Crash of 2008 by Ross Garnaut, with David Llewellyn-Smith, Melbourne University Press, to be released on 12 October 2009. The book examines the factors that led to the Great Crash of 2008 and subsequently to the current global recession. It provides an integrated analysis of one of the major events of our time, drawing on behavioural economics, the issue of global macroeconomic imbalances and the operation of modern financial markets. The study also discu
Shaping Up: Order, Change and Discontent in Asia's Security Future
Asia's strategic environment is in the midst of a major transformation, with a shifting distribution of power at the epicentre of this process. However, as long-standing security arrangements give way, there is great uncertainty about the kinds of dynamics that will come to define Asia's new security order in the coming years and decades. Can the US prolong its primacy? Will Asia's security environment resemble a traditionally rivalrous balance of power, or will it be more cooperative? Finally,
APW2010:Understanding the idea of an Asia Pacific Community
Professor Peter Drysdale (Crawford School of Economics & Government, ANU) has pursued a busy life as an academic researching the economies of East Asia, especially Japan, and advocating trade liberalisation, especially in the Asia Pacific. He will discuss how better understanding of the international economy is critical for anyone wishing to influence governments or to shape public debate. He has a PhD from the ANU.
APW2010: Divergent Dictators: Legacies of Leadership in Three Asian Authoritarian Regimes
"Finding the right place for individuals is an old problem for political analysis," explains Richard Samuels in his comparative analysis of leadership in Japan and Italy. "Do individuals make history, or does history make individuals who make history?" This paper examines the highly divergent legacies that came forth from the leadership of three Asian dictators: South Korea's Park Chung Hee (1961-1979), Indonesia's Suharto (1965-1998), and the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986). Through t
APW2010: The Best and Worst of Times: Indonesia and Crises, with some Southeast Asian Comparisons
Economic crises cause serious social and economic distress, and sometimes have significant political consequences. These effects are often more severe in developing countries, because their governments are less likely to have the fiscal and institutional capacity to protect their citizens. Southeast Asia has experienced two major economic crises in recent times, the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 and the current global financial crisis. This presentation examines the causes and consequences o
APW2010: The Regulatory Challenge of Asia
What does it mean when the Vietnamese government detains, without warning, Australian executives of an airline in which a major Australian company has made a long-term investment? After all, this kind of large-scale, high-technology investment in Asia is precisely what the global trade rules and transnational commercial laws of the late 20th century were designed to achieve. Our Vietnam example, however, is not a paradigm dispute about the terms of trade or the design of a commercial transaction
2010 Crawford-Nishi Lecture: The Prospects for APEC and Japan-Australia Relationship
The lecture series is organised by the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University with the assistance of a grant from the Australia-Japan Foundation. The lecture series honours the two individuals from Australia and Japan who made the greatest contribution to the post-World War Two normalisation of Australia-Japan relations, Sir John Crawford, then Secretary of the Department of Trade and later ANU Vice Chancellor, and Ambassador Haruhiko Nishi, Japan's first Ambassado
Frontiers of knowledge: Thailand's border patrol police in the age of Internet research
Over the past decade, Thailand has experienced rapid growth in the number of Internet users and today about one third of the Thai population is regularly online. These Internet users have readily become producers of content, and the proliferation of local language material sees Thai ranked in the top 20 global Internet languages. Thai security agencies have embraced these trends and now maintain a wide range of official websites. In this paper I sketch out a tentative methodology for studying Th
Asian Security Seminar: Building Asia's Security
As global economic and strategic weight shifts to Asia, countries in the region are considering how to protect themselves better in the uncertain strategic landscape of the twenty-first century. Alliances with the United States remain pivotal, but China is an ever more dominant presence. Faced with this, and with growing transnational threats such as terrorism, energy insecurity and infectious diseases, Asian governments are increasingly interested in multilateral security cooperation. New multi
Week 03 Lecture: Sustainability and Public Participation
This lecture will explore the importantance of including people in environmental policy development and implementation, as well as the associated problems of allowing people to be involved in the development of policy and decision making processes. Power and equity issues will be explored with a view to highlighting the diabolical policy conundrum posed by the involvement and consultation of people in environmental policy. Steve Dovers will provide an introduction to the complex nature of enviro
Week 06 Lecture: Water Policy
The first hour of this week's lecture will take the form of a historical analysis of Murray-Darling policy issues from Daniel Connell. The 2nd hour will include a question and answer session on water policy in Australia with Tony Slatyer - please click here to read Tony's biographic details and in the light of his various roles on water policy you need to come with questions you would like to ask him. There will probably not be time for Richard to go through his slides so you are encouraged to g
Week 03 Lecture: Sustainability and Public Participation
This lecture will explore the importantance of including people in environmental policy development and implementation, as well as the associated problems of allowing people to be involved in the development of policy and decision making processes. Power and equity issues will be explored with a view to highlighting the diabolical policy conundrum posed by the involvement and consultation of people in environmental policy. Steve Dovers will provide an introduction to the complex nature of enviro
Week 06 Lecture: Water Policy
The first hour of this week's lecture will take the form of a historical analysis of Murray-Darling policy issues from Daniel Connell. The 2nd hour will include a question and answer session on water policy in Australia with Tony Slatyer - please click here to read Tony's biographic details and in the light of his various roles on water policy you need to come with questions you would like to ask him. There will probably not be time for Richard to go through his slides so you are encouraged to g
Week 10 Lecture: making environmental policy work #1A
Steve Dovers on his course next semester SRES3018 Policy and Institutional Analysis in Environment and Sustainability and some thoughts on why environmental policy is so different from other policy areas.
Week 10 Lecture: making environmental policy work #1A
Steve Dovers on his course next semester SRES3018 Policy and Institutional Analysis in Environment and Sustainability and some thoughts on why environmental policy is so different from other policy areas.
Euler Diagrams and Argument Analysis
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Singh--Data Analysis :: Micro Data Interpretation
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