1.3.2 Search engines and subject gateways
Although both search engines and subject gateways will help you find the resources that you need, the types of information that you find will differ.
Search engines such as
Google and
Yahoo! search the internet for keywords or phrases, and then show you the results. These results are not mediated by the search engin
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American Tariffs and Wars From the Revolution to the Depression
Fair trade is once again a rallying cry for many Americans. Many contemporary leftists believe that the U.S. government should impose restrictions or
tariffs on imported goods that are alleged to have been produced by underpaid or oppressed Third World workers. Few contemporary protectionists are aware
of the sordid history of trade conflicts earlier in American history.
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Estonian security police say officer abducted on Russian border
Estonia's Internal Security Service says an Estonian security officer was taken at gunpoint across to Russia during an operation to stop an illegal crossing on the Russian border. Nathan Frandino reports.
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Winter Lecture Series - 2009: Diet detective: What's on the menu for our coastal marine animals?
Dr McLeod – the 2008 McDiarmid Young Scientist of the year – has a fascination with the slimy and disgusting that has seen her study hagfish in Fiordland and metre-long worms in Antarctica. She looks at the importance of rain forest and sea ice for the diets of these creatures. What if more forests are cut down, or if the sea ice disappears? Armed with these answers, it is becoming possible to predict the challenges ahead for these coastal creatures, and for coastal ecosystems in general. 20
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Economics for Marketing
What is this module about?
To develop knowledge and understanding of the concepts and theories in economics that underpins consumer choice and market interactions. The lectures and seminars will explore the theories and empirical evidence regarding the choices made by consumers in the contemporary marketplace, and how these choices are shaped and influenced.
Objectives
On completion of the module, students will be able to:
1. Examine the key theories of behaviour and economic decision making
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Art 100 Session #01 Fall 2014
Looking at Art with James Scarborough
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Learning to perceive art through discussion of selected historical
periods, development of descriptive vocabulary and observation
of actual works of art. Introduction to theories of interpretation
and evaluation.
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3.2 Natural dives
The physiology of the diving response can be studied in the laboratory, but investigating the behaviour of a diving mammal in its natural environment can be more of a problem. However, modern physiological techniques have made it possible to record continuously physiological variables (such as heart rate) and information on depth and position during the spontaneous dives in the wild that are part of the animal's normal behaviour. Most such findings show that the majority of an animal's dives
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Textos e pretextos
Textos e pretextos is a literary journal published by the Camões Institute, Lisbon, with the aim of providing an outlet for academic criticism on the most important characters of Lusophone authors. First launched in 2002, it has brought out bi-annual volumes focusing upon either individual authors or important theoretical concepts. Issue number 2 (2003) focuses on the concept of the mirror, while number 7 (2005) discusses the work of Chico Buarque. Each issue assists study by a detaile
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2.4.1 Keeping a Skills File
As you work on your skills development, you are likely to find that you'll need several skill files so that you can keep a helpful frequent record or log of your learning. In this course such a record is called a Skills File. Building up a Skills File as you go along will help you identify the skills you are using and how you are applying them to different tasks. You can also include your own reflective comments on how you think your work is progressing. The activities associated with each ke
Author(s): The Open University
AutoCAD'ing with the Kinect for Windows v2
Kean Walmsley, long time Friend of the Gallery and AutoCAD .NET integration guy (if you need to use AutoCAD and .NET you've got to read his blog), who in his spare time, is also a Kinect enthusiast, recently released a four part series on the Kinect for Windows v2 Device, SDK and AutoCAD.
Friend of the Gallery? Man, just look at all the times we've highlighted
Author(s): Greg Duncan
Enabling Testing in Production in Azure Websites | Web Camps TV
Join your guide Cory Fowler as he talks to the product teams in Redmond as well as the web community.
This week Cory is joined by Galin Iliev from the Azure Websites team to check out the newly announced preview feature testing in production. Testing in Production enables scenarios for A/B Testing, canary releases and other continuous delivery strategies by extending the existing site slots
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Pregnancy with diabetes
Dr Roger Gadsby from the institute of education at Warwick Medical School talks about a study in to how women with diabetes plan for pregnancy which could have major implications for care in this area.
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Ense?anza de la representaci?n manual y digital, para arquitectos y dise?adores [Teaching Hand and D
The supremacy of the digital means of representation and communication and the resulting shift of the manual means in the field of design and architecture, have engendered multiple opinions and literature. They focus and analyze the virtues and risks, the losses and substitutions, and the different expressive, productive and conceptual results of their leading role in the creative process. Furthermore, if we consider both as two extremes, apparently opposed, a broad panorama of combinations and
Author(s): Alfredo Stipech
Apple unveils a new mobile payments service dubbed "Apple Pay"
Apple introduces a new mobile payments service that allows users to pay for items in stores with their phones instead of physically presenting credit cards. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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