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Displaying from Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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September 2012
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Tuesday 25 |
Effective learning activities involve group work, and the LMS has extensive opportunities for group activities and group management fulfilling its underpinning social constructivist theoretical base. The Moodle software manages groups through two facets: groups and groupings.
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13:00 - SEMINAR - The Shootout at the OK Corral : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: In supporting the hypothesis that the skeleton found at Liang Bua on the Island of Flores is an adult of a new species, the main proponent asserts that one alternative hypothesis, that it may represent the skeleton of an adult endemic cretin, is wrong. His reasoning is that the Liang (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar : When nano meets bio: Interdisciplinary applications of electron microscopy
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As leader of the electron microscopy capability in the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA), my core role is to support those wanting to apply advanced electron microscopy techniques in their research. With a background in Physics and an interest in the development of (...)
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Teachers are being stretched in their efforts to maintain high quality teaching, often in a time or resource-poor environment, and with an increasingly diverse student cohort. Ideas on how to establish and maintain a good learning experience for students by (...)
The gradebook is where student marks for assessed activities can be managed. Activities and items in the LMS can be assessed and grade collated in the gradebook. The gradebook, can also be manipulated in a range of ways, manual grades added or marks changed.
In the Beyond the Basics: Managing (...)
16:00 - SEMINAR - CWR Presents : Corals form characteristic associations with symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria
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A. Kimberley Lema1,2, Bette L. Willis1, and David G. Bourne2 1ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia ( [email protected]; [email protected])
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Chris Parish is an immunologist and cancer biologist with a research career spanning 40 years. He is recognised as a world leader in studies of immune regulation and the role of heparanase and heparan sulfate in cell migration. He has also developed several carbohydrate-based drugs, such as PI-88 (M (...)
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Thursday 27 |
9:30 - WORKSHOP - Beyond the Basics: Providing resources in the LMS - database and glossary activities
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In this workshop, participants will investigate the Database and Glossary activites within the LMS unit.
The Glossary activity allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary.
Using the Database activity teachers and/or students can build, display and search a (...)
12:00 - TALK - Talk by Kate Storrs "You look different, somehow"
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What you see depends on what you have already seen. After seeing a squashed ellipse, a perfect circle tends to look elongated – a shape aftereffect. After seeing a female face, an androgynous face tends to look masculine – a face aftereffect. Aftereffects are ubiquitous in vision, but have (...)
14:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Statistic Seminar : Nonlinear Time Series Modelling in Bionformatics and Finance: Bayesian perspectives
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There are two main components in this talk: DNA sequence modelling in Bioinformatics and Bayesian analysis of a modified Smooth Threshold Autoregressive (STAR) models in Finance. For the DNA sequence modelling, I continued my research in Bayesian Hidden Markov modelling for some new DNA (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - A Proper Sense of History : Former Prime Minister John Howard will present The Sir Paul Hasluck Foundation Lecture
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As Minister for External Affairs and Minister for Defence, Sir Paul Hasluck was integral in formulating Australia’s post war security and foreign policy. He was a strong advocate for our nation’s indigenous people, particularly in health and education.
He was a prolific writer, authoring (...)
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October 2012
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Tuesday 02 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Iron and its influence on hepatic lipids : School of Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Seminar Series
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The Seminar: Obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are major health problems in Australia. All are characterised by an initial accumulation of lipids which, along with the contribution of confounding factors, such as iron, can lead to organ dysfunction and death. In the presence of (...)
13:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics: Packing Steiner trees
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Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Irene Pivotto (UWA)
will speak on
Packing Steiner trees
at 1pm Tuesday 2nd of October in MLR2
Abstract: A classic theorem of Nash-Wiliams and Tutte gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph to
have k (...)
This week PhD student Rahi Varsani will be presenting the Biophysics seminar.
Title: Time-evolution of chain formation in magnetic nanoparticles and its effects on transverse proton relaxation rates.
Abstract: In the 1970s, de Gennes and Pincus predicted that magnetic (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Neurodevelopmental disorders: Are our current diagnostic labels fit for purpose?
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A Public Lecture by Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford.
Many children have specific developmental difficulties affecting specific areas such as reading, language, maths, motor co-ordination, attention or social skills. A range of diagnostic (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar : A Tale of Two Metalloenzymes:
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Binuclear metallohydrolases are a functionally diverse class of metalloenzyme whose members require two closely spaced metal ions in their active site to catalyse the hydrolysis of amides and phosphate esters [1].
Purple acid phosphatases (PAPs) are found in animals, plants and fungi (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Soil&Water Seminar, Oct3: : "The Staples Economy and Regional Development in Western Australia”
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The next Soil&Water Seminar will be Prof. Matthew Tonts from SEE, at 12pm on Weds, Oct 3rd. All welcome!
Title: “The Staples Economy and Regional Development in Western Australia”
Abstract: In the 1930s, Canadian historian Harold Innis developed his 'staples thesis' to (...)
Extreme rainfall over the south and north-west of Western Australia and the Sydney region of NSW over the last fifty years has been modelled using a Bayesian hierarchical approach based on statistical extreme value theory. Spatial variability of the extreme rainfall distribution is modelled using a (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Growth headwinds in China and Japan: implications for the Australian economy
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An ‘Inquiring Minds’ lecture by Rod Tyers, Winthrop Professor of Economics, UWA Business School.
This lecture will review recent economic development in China and Japan and will examine the likelihood that either country will overcome barriers to further economic growth. It will draw (...)
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Thursday 04 |
7:30 - SEMINAR - Seminar - Professor Richard Dowell : Current audiological reseach at the University of Melbourne
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Professor Dowell is the Director of Audiological Services at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Head of the Department of Audiology & Speech Pathology at the University of Melbourne, and holds the Chair in Audiology and Speech Science. Prof Dowell has also been a key scientist with the (...)
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