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Displaying from Thursday, May 25, 2017
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May 2017
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Thursday 25 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Fisheries and Global Warming: Impacts on marine ecosystems : Public Lecture by Daniel Pauly
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A public lecture by Professor Daniel Pauly, fisheries expert and marine conservationist
In this public lecture, Professor Pauly takes a historical look at fisheries, and comments on the current challenges of global food security.
The period following the Second World War saw a (...)
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June 2017
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Saturday 03 |
The Systematic Reviews Workshop will be held on 3rd and 4th June, 2017 at UWA's Watersports Complex.
This two-day workshop is designed for postgraduate students, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and researchers in healthcare. It will cover topics such as searching Medline (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
19:00 - TALK - Friends of the UWA Library Speaker : “Missionaries, Adventurers, Laborer’s and Intellectuals”: Italians in WA before mass migration
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About the talk
Australia has received large numbers of migrants from the two great diasporas of modern times: Italians and Chinese. The latest census shows that the most widely spoken languages in Australia, after English, are Chinese and Italian. However while we are all aware of the (...)
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Tuesday 27 |
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 statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)
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July 2017
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Tuesday 04 |
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. Those without this experience are encouraged to attend the (...)
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Tuesday 11 |
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 12 |
Mental illnesses often start in adolescence or early adulthood and it is important to detect problems early to ensure the young person is properly treated and supported.
This 14-hour YMHFA course teaches adults who have frequent contact with adolescents, such as parents, guardians (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Re-balancing and Sustaining China's Economic Growth : China in Conversation
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China has enjoyed almost four decades of high economic growth. This growth has slowed in recent years due
to rising domestic wages, a rapidly ageing population and
falling demand for exports.
Further growth will rely on economic restructuring and
deepening reforms. This China in (...)
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Tuesday 18 |
This course will cover topics such as:
-Presenting data for a single variable: Including an introduction to histograms, box plots, and bar graphs
-Visualisation of two or more variables: Including an introduction to scatterplots, pairs plots, parallel coordinate plot and (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
The 2nd edition of Global Timber Conference is designed to provide a conduit to the timber and furniture industry to converge annually; to discuss issues and strategies for a sustainable future of the timber sector.
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August 2017
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Thursday 03 |
16:00 - STUDENT EVENT - Telethon Kids Institute - Prospective Student Evening : An information evening for all students considering a postgraduate degree in medical research
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Telethon Kids Institute (UWA's Centre for Child Health Research) invites all prospective Honours, M.D., and higher degree by research students to join us for the evening to learn more about becoming a student with us.
Our supervisors will be speaking to students about their student projects (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
19:00 - EVENT - Friends of the Library UWA Library Speaker : “New Norcia – a little bit of Spain in Western Australia”
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In 1846 two Spanish monks, Dom Rosendo Salvado and Dom Joseph Serra, members of the Order of Saint Benedict, arrived in Western Australia with the intention of becoming missionaries. They were allocated an area now known as the Victoria Plains by Bishop Brady in Perth (...)
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Thursday 10 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Financial Crisis and Rural Reforms in China: Implications for Australia : China in Conversatoin
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Reforms in land ownership and the opening up to international markets have contributed to China’s
successful recovery from the financial crises experienced
over the last decades.
Of significance is the shift in China’s policy towards
agricultural production. With only 14% of land (...)
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Monday 14 |
The 3rd annual Myanmar Green Energy Summit 2017 is designed to provide a platform for international energy industry players and potential investors to get first hand updates on the development plan and explore investment opportunities of the green energy sector in Myanmar.
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Wednesday 16 |
The staging of the Global Water Conference 2017 in Yangon is meant to address the issues of water supply and resources management in the SEA region. This conference is designed to facilitate the implementation of the water management policies and encouraging collaboration between those working on (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - "Grassroots deterrence": Chinese public opinion and the South China Sea dispute : Discussion of strategic role of state-led popular nationalism in China’s maritime disputes in the internet era. All welcome.
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September 2017
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Thursday 07 |
7:00 - Health & Wellness - Health Coaching : Free health coaching on campus
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Participants needed to assist our 4th year Post Graduate Health students in Health Coaching.
**What’s required from you**
2 sessions of about 1 hour each, 3-4 weeks apart, held at UWA at times convenient to yourself and subject to student availability
**What is Health (...)
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Friday 08 |
This event will showcase services and resources that Pawsey Supercomputing Centre can provide to UWA researchers to take their research to the next level. There will be time in the morning for existing users and potential users to have one-on-one assistance with Pawsey staff. This will be (...)
13:00 - STAFF EVENT - Embedding Research Skills into Learning Experiences : A discussion forum to learn from each other's experiences.
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There is evidence that generic attributes like research skills are most effectively developed when they are embedded in the curricula.
In this session, we will present examples from the courses in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences as well as literature where academics have (...)
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Monday 11 |
18:00 - EVENT - WA Department of Health Youth Health Policy Community Conversation #2 : If you are 13-24 we want to hear your thoughts on the new Youth Health Policy!
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Are you aged 13 - 24? We want to hear from YOU! We want to find out what you think about health services for young people. The WA Department of Health wants to hear from people aged 13 – 24 about the WA Youth Health Policy. You are invited to come along and share your thoughts and ideas.
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