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Displaying from Tuesday, November 12, 2013
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November 2013
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Tuesday 12 |
R is a free and extremely powerful language and software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. The course will include:
Introduction to R: How to install R on (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - From cradle to grave: a lifecourse approach to understanding sarcopenia : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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Raine Visiting Professor Lecture
The Seminar: Sarcopenia is the loss of skeletal muscle mass and function with age. There has been exciting recent progress in the development of a consensus approach to defining sarcopenia which is enabling the prevalence to be compared in different (...)
13:00 - Colloquium - Delusions, Positive Illusions and Jumps to Conclusions: Understanding Departures from Rational Belief
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Rational belief formation involves holding beliefs with the firmness that the evidence warrants. Unfortunately, humans are known to fall short of this ideal, being prone to various forms of “misbelief”. Such deviations from rational belief range from “healthy” (yet potentially destructive) (...)
15:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Variable parasites - variable defences?
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A world recognised specialist in the field of ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions, Paul’s research interests focus on the coevolution and ecology of host-parasite interactions.
As head of the Experimental Ecology research group at ETH, his pioneering works on host-parasi (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
Professor Tilling main areas of expertise are in methods for
analysing exposures and outcomes across the life-course, and in methods for dealing with missing data. She has a mathematical background, an MSc in Applied Statistics and a PhD in Epidemiology, together with more than 15 years’ (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - Internal wave seiching/standing-waves. : This seminar is part of the Centre for Water Research seminar series.
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There have been many recordings of internal wave spectra in lakes.When the density profile is so that it can be approximated by a few (often two) layers of constant density there has been satisfactory agreement between the observed spectra and calculated seiche frequencies.
The situation (...)
17:30 - MEMORIAL LECTURE - Dr Joan Trevelyan Memorial Lecture 2013 : A public lecture presented by Professor Mohammed Ayoob. He will be speaking about conflict and terrorism in the Middle East.
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The Arab Spring has both changed and charged some of the region’s thorniest problems – from the rise of political Islam to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Israel-Palestine conflict to rivalries between key regional powers. Exploring the sources of conflict in the Middle East and their various (...)
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Thursday 14 |
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities Symposium : We are delighted to invite you to a symposium on ‘Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities’ on November 14th
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We are delighted to invite you to a symposium on ‘Oral Health in Aged Care: Research and Realities’ on November 14th as part of the activities of our Centre for Research Excellence in Primary Oral Health Care (UWA node). This symposium brings together a number of outstanding national and (...)
The course will cover material ranging from a review of simple one-way ANOVA, to more complex designs and analyses including crossed and nested factors with fixed and random effects.The emphasis throughout will be placed on applications rather than theory. The statistical package R and R Commander (...)
12:00 - EVENT - Accomplished Education Researcher Seminar Series : Untying the Gordian Knot of ‘Quality’ and ‘Equity’ in Education for a Global Knowledge Era?
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In Australia over the last five years, the Federal Government has thrust a policy couplet of ‘quality’ and ‘equity’ to the forefront of education agendas in both schooling and higher education sectors. This couplet reflects and refracts dominant education discourses around the globe. The (...)
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Friday 15 |
13:30 - SEMINAR - Flipping the classroom - what does it mean and how can I do it? : Lunchtime Seminar Series
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Flipped classroom is a term currently popular in educational contexts. This seminar defines flipped classroom approach, highlights benefits and pitfalls, illustrates a range of flipped classroom approaches in university teaching, and talks about getting started in flipping your classroom.
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, A miscellany of topics related to semiregular graph automorphisms
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I will discuss a few things, all related to semiregular graph automorphisms : the polycirculant conjecture, the abelian normal quotient method, an interesting class of graphs...
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Monday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children
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The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children" by Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
12:00 - SEMINAR - Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children
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The Lung Institute of WA invites you to a free seminar on: "Confronting the killer: epidemiology and prevention of pneumonia in Papua New Guinean children" by Associate Professor Deborah Lehmann. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
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Tuesday 19 |
13:00 - Colloquium - Speaker Perception : Vocal information plays a major role in person perception and social communication
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While humans use their voice mainly for communicating information about the world, paralinguistic cues in the voice signal convey rich dynamic information about a speaker´s arousal and emotional state, and extralinguistic cues reflect more stable speaker characteristics including identity (...)
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Wednesday 20 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Austere times, and the perverse reproduction of neoliberal reason
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A free public lecture by Jamie Peck, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.
The lecture will explore the political and theoretical status of neoliberalism in these ostensibly twilight times. Particular attention will be focused on the peculiar course of austerity (...)
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Thursday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Islands beyond Wallace’s Line Understanding the first human settlement of the Philippine Archipelago
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This talk will discuss some results of an ongoing collaborative research project between the Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, the Australian National University and UWA on the Pleistocene-Early Holocene settlement of the Philippines. The Philippines have recently (...)
Effective management of diversity in society and workplaces continues to present challenges in the 21st century. Diversity management remains a fragmented research discipline and profession which suffers from crises of legitimacy and trust. Despite an ‘it’s good for us: it’s good for business� (...)
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Friday 22 |
The Swan Canning River System is a highly valued part of the Western Australian environment. The river is used for a wide range of recreational activities, and is also important in terms of its ecology. This study aims to estimate the value of both recreational and ecological attributes of the (...)
MOOCs are all the talk in education, with rigorous debate of what the mean for the future of university education. UWA itself has commenced engaging with MOOCs. This seminar defines MOOCs, explains UWA's engagement with MOOCs, and examines the pedagogy of a MOOC class and course.
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