From: VideoLectures on Fri, Jan 07 2011 9:22 AM

Professor Saltzman continues his presentation on the topic of vaccine. First, Professor Saltzman describes the host immune response to pathogen recognition, in terms of immunoglobulin release, T-cell activation, and memory cell production. The production, distribution, and challenges involved in...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Jan 07 2011 9:22 AM

Professor Saltzman introduces the basic concepts of renal physiology. Professor Saltzman first introduces the function and anatomy of the kidney. Special attention is given to the cell types and structural aspect of the nephron, the functional unit of the kidney. Filtration, secretion of toxic w...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, Jan 06 2011 9:27 AM

From: VideoLectures on Thu, Jan 06 2011 9:27 AM

Professor Saltzman introduces the material properties of elasticity and viscosity. He describes two separate experimental setups to measure the elasticity and the viscosity of a material. Material elasticity can be defined in terms of stress-strain property, and defines the Young’s modulus (E), ...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, Jan 06 2011 9:27 AM

Professor Saltzman continues his description of nephron anatomy, and the specific role of each part of the nephron in establishing concentration gradients to help in secretion and reabsorption of water, ions, nutrients and wastes. A number of molecular transport processes that produces urine fro...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, Jan 06 2011 9:27 AM

Data recovery is a procedure of partial recovery of lost data from the memory without the context which, before the loss occurred, gave the positive informational, social, or other meaning. By emulating this process we want to bring back the fragments of events, actions or situations which disap...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, Jan 06 2011 9:27 AM

From: VideoLectures on Wed, Jan 05 2011 9:21 AM

Prof. Singer introduces himself and format of class meetings. Singer discusses his new essay on same-sex marriage, included in a new version of his book, Sex: A Philosophical Primer. Singer outlines a philosophy of pluralism. Singer describes himself as a disciple of Socrates, for whom the most ...

From: VideoLectures on Wed, Jan 05 2011 9:21 AM

Class starts with discussion of Singer’s same-sex marriage chapter. Singer reviews history of homosexuality in literature and art; discusses the work of Marcel Proust, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Singer reviews Freud's theories on bisexuality and latent homosexuality. Sin...

From: VideoLectures on Wed, Jan 05 2011 9:21 AM

Singer begins with quotation by Dorothy Parker. Myraida starts presentation on the chapter on sexual love. Singer takes over with a mini-lecture on Greek and Christian concepts of love. Discussion of Saint Augustine. Discussion of love in Judaic tradition. Review of 4 concepts of Greek l...

From: VideoLectures on Wed, Jan 05 2011 9:21 AM

Singer announces beginning of the third part of the course; the first related to his book The Pursuit of Love, the second focused on myths of love, and the third is based on his book Explorations of Love and Sex. Singer leads discussion of readings on the issues of appraisal and bestow...

From: VideoLectures on Tue, Dec 28 2010 8:38 AM

This paper studies the problem of learning a full range of pairwise affinities gained by integrating local grouping cues for spectral segmentation. The overall quality of the spectral segmentation depends mainly on the pairwise pixel affinities. By employing a semi-supervised learning technique, ...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Dec 25 2010 8:25 AM

The rising costs of drug development make it imperative for pharmaceutical companies to quickly learn from knowledge generated in clinical trials. Timely access to successful study designs and trial outcomes can facilitate speed and quality improvements in decision-making at various stages. Utili...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Dec 25 2010 8:25 AM

It’s been long proclaimed that business intelligence and search may eventually swallow one another; essentially both boiling down to the discovery of information and its effective presentation to the target user. While Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager for enterprise search group at Google, m...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Dec 25 2010 8:25 AM

What does the 'open' in linked open data mean? How do we share and discover the available linked open data that is out there? In this talk we’ll look into both these questions, giving a precise definition of openness (and why it matters), looking at the legal tools available to make da...

From: VideoLectures on Sat, Dec 25 2010 8:25 AM

The presentation discusses experiences of harvesting most of the linked data web and RDF web sources and maintaining a tterabyte-scale RDF repository on a scale-out platform. We look into recent advances in RDF databasing and how RDF is becoming enterprise-ready for demanding heterogenous data in...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Dec 24 2010 8:34 AM

Mendeley started as three guys in a virtual garage in 2007 - and has grown to become the world’s largest research collaboration platform less than two years after its public launch in 2008. Used by more than 500,000 academics and industry researchers, Mendeley enables researchers to manage docum...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Dec 24 2010 8:34 AM

In this forum successful entrepreneurs and VCs will discuss "How to build a successful relationship between a startups and VCs". The Venture Capitalist Forum is co-organised by the AVCO (Austrian Venture Capitalist Organisation).

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Dec 24 2010 8:34 AM

S prenosom spoznanj, kako voditi zmagovalno športno ekipo, je udeležence srecanja najprej osvojil Matjaž Kek, selektor slovenske nogometne reprezentance. Izpostavil je dve kvaliteti vodenja: komunikacijo in medsebojno spoštovanje. V središce je postavil zavedanje, da je ekipni cilj tisti, ki ima...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Dec 24 2010 8:33 AM

Yahoo! attracts hundreds of millions of users every month through its innovative technology and engaging content and services, making it one of the most trafficked Internet destinations and a world class online media company. In this talk, we discuss and illustrate some of the ways in which Yaho...