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May 2013
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Thursday 09 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Monitoring of pelagic species in large marine reserves: the missing piece in open ocean management : SESE Seminar
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Pelagic fishes and sharks have been the target of an expanding industrial fishing fleet for the last 60 years, leading to depletions and in some cases, trophic cascades. Following widespread collapse of coastal fish populations, no-take marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly recognised as (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Western Australia as an old landscape transformed, altered, but not lost
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from the wheatbelt to the Murchison in the path of Surveyor Robert Austin’s 1854 expedition.
An Inquiring Minds Lecture by Stephen Hopper, Winthrop Professor of Biodiversity,The University of Western Australia.
In this talk, Professor Hopper will present a modern journey (...)
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Thursday 16 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : "IWRM and water resource modelling project experiences in Africa by our Aurecon Water Resources."
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My Seminar deals with two Aurecon Projects on opposite ends of the African Continent that might appear widely divergent, but which are actually closely related within the domain of IWRM.
Nile Basin DSS: Aurecon is the lead consultant on Pilot Studies on the development and establishment of (...)
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Monday 27 |
Through the UWA Health & Rehabiliation Clinic a variety of Clinical Pilates options are now available to staff and general public!
Clinical Pilates is a form of physical exercise that focuses on posture, balance, control, strength, flexibility, and breathing. It incorporates mat and (...)
Statistical meta-analysis deals with a variety of sophisticated statistical methods to efficiently combine the results of several studies that have a common target.
In this course, we will describe the basic concepts of effect size for continuous measurements as well as qualitative attributes (...)
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June 2013
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Thursday 06 |
14:10 - EVENT - IOA Postgraduate Showcase 2013: Frontiers in Agriculture : 6 of UWA's best PhD students present their research
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Each year The UWA Institute of Agriculture hosts an annual Postgraduate Showcase where selected postgraduate students in Agriculture and related areas present their research.
The Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA).
The course is subsidised for UWA (...)
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July 2013
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Monday 01 |
9:00 - EVENT - Masterclass: Research with Impact : Planning a pathway to impact for your research
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This masterclass for doctoral and early career doctoral researchers will focus on the development of plans for achieving research impact through collaborations and the two-way exchange of knowledge between the university and a range of external stakeholders.
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Tuesday 02 |
The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. Those without this experience are encouraged to attend the Introductory Statistics course first.
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Thursday 04 |
This course covers material ranging from Kaplan Meier curves to the analysis of censored data and Cox's proportional hazards models.
Participants must bring their own laptop with R installed.
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Tuesday 16 |
9:00 - COURSE - ANOVA, Linear Regression and Logistic Regression : A Short Course using SPSS
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This course covers techniques that can be used to analyse data with continuous and categorical variables. The course will begin with simple linear regression and then proceed with approaches that can be used with more than two variables such as multiple regression. ANOVA with interactions and (...)
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Wednesday 17 |
16:00 - EVENT - CWR Presents : Spectral detection of stress-related pigments in Samphires of Western Australia
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Wetlands in north-western Australia have significant national and international value since they sustain a large number of endemic Samphire, species growing under saline, waterlogged, and dry conditions.
We investigate the ecophysiological aspects of these succulent species using a combination of (...)
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Thursday 18 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Reaching new heights: antioxidants in wheat : 10 years of research on how to enhance levels of antioxidant compounds in wheat
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Cereals typically are not considered as dietary sources of antioxidants even though they can compare well with some berries known for their high antioxidant content. Wheat antioxidant levels vary substantially –even within a cultivar– across years and geographic location. Learning how to (...)
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Thursday 25 |
15:45 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar Series: "Watching a gene move around inside the nucleus: dynamics of living chromatin"
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Associate Professor Mylne will describe a system that he established which allows the monitoring of the physical position of a gene within a nucleus by confocal microscopy. He will illustrate its use to monitor the dynamic changes in gene position for one particular Arabidopsis gene as it gets (...)
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Friday 26 |
14:00 - ORATION - Three Minute Thesis Competition Final : An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present - their time 3 minutes!
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The task for the 10 finalists is to give an engaging talk on their PhD topic and it's significance in language that everyone can understand - in just 3 minutes. The audience will vote for its People's Choice.
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August 2013
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Sunday 11 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - 2013 Open Day : Join us for our Centenary Open Day and experience all that UWA has to offer
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Come and find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.
There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities (...)
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Monday 12 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Lifting Africans out of poverty : an overview of the strategy and activities of the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
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The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
sets clear targets: by 2020 its research efforts will have contributed to lifting 11 million Africans out of poverty and to restoring 7.5 million hectares of land into sustainable use.
IITA's Deputy Director General for Research, Prof Ylva (...)
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September 2013
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Monday 02 |
iVEC@UWA in conjunction with the iVEC Visualisation and Education program invite expressions of interest for hands on training using the Avizo or Amira 3D visualisation and analysis software, to be held during September/October.
The Visualisation Sciences Group (VSG) provided some (...)
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Friday 06 |
12:00 - OPEN DAY - Future Farm 2050 Field Day 2013 : The UWA Institute of Agriculture, Future Farm 2050 invites you to attend the 2013 Field Day on 6 September 2013
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The UWA Institute of Agriculture, Future Farm 2050 invites you to attend the 2013 Field Day on 6 September 2013.
PROGRAM
12.00pm: Registration with tea and coffee provided at Avery’s shed
12.30 - 12.40pm: Welcome and program overview, W/Prof Graeme Martin, The (...)
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October 2013
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Tuesday 01 |
This course is aimed at anyone wishing to improve their survey questionnaires. This course is useful for both people new to questionnaire design and those who have experience and would like to extend their knowledge. It will be a benefit not only for people who anticipate designing a questionnaire (...)
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