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Speaker(s): Professor Sudhir Anand, Professor Amartya Sen | To ensure that people live long and healthy lives it is important to know what kills different groups of people in different places. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) based on the Disability-Adjusted Life Year has been developed to do this. This lecture shows how this measure leads to various anomalies and biases, in particular it underestimates the health problems experienced by women and children. Sudhir Anand is Research Director of
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How to Pronounce the Alphabet in French
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Gold: A Period Table Element
This 3:35 long video explains how gold is used and why it is valuable. It is an excellent overview.
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3 Biographical perspective: using pathways You will shortly be hearing excerpts from interviews with four men, who were contacted through the Swansea Cyrenians. They are all from very different backgrounds, and talk about their own experiences of homelessness. The clips are only brief insights into life without a home, but they do demonstrate the importance of a biographical perspective in understanding the unique and diverse needs of individual homeless people. Looking at situations from a biological perspective is
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Spanish Listening Comprehension for Advanced Learners #7 - Setting up a Meeting Room in Mexico
Learn Mexican Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Do you find yourself missing the nuances in Mexican Spanish conversations? Would you like to understand more of what’s happening around you in daily life in Mexico? Then this Mexican Spanish Listening Comprehension for Advanced Learners series is for you! In each lesson of this five-part series, you’ll see an [...]
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Former foes honor the fallen on Gallipoli centenary
Britain's Prince Charles joins Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in leading a memorial service to commemorate the 100th anniversary of one of World War One's bloodiest battles. Vanessa Johnston reports.
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Introduction This unit will examine some of the key ideas connected with innovation in organisations. You will be introduced to some important concepts which are used to analyse innovation, in particular the distinction between innovation and invention. In exploring the theme of innovation, general links will be made to the implications for the business functions. This material is from our archive and is an adapted extract from Understanding Business Functions (B202) which is n
1.4.10 Unfinished business When people die suddenly we can never be sure that they have done and said what they want and are able to do. Meg’s long term-illness gave her a lot of time for reflection and preparation, so that while her death was sudden and she was unable to see her younger son, she also had the opportunity for conversations with people about her death. However, there may have been last-minute wishes that Meg was unable to express. Li’s sudden stroke may have left her with things unsaid, but her
Andreas Kyprianou inaugural lecture: Jumping about in applied probability
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Pulitzer Center grantees Dimiter Kenarov and Boryana Katsarova present their project on the crisis in Crimea. They explain the historical background, the complex current situation, and the challenges they have faced as journalists covering the events.
"Ukraine: Crimea Under Siege" by Dimiter Kenarov and Boryana Katsarova: http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/eastern-europe-russia-ukraine-crimea-history-politics-revolution
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