Medical Laboratory Technicians perform biological tests in search of diagnostic clues as evidence of health or disease. In the search for data on a patient’s health, people working in this field may examine specimens through a microscope or perform, for example, the tests necessary to match a donated unit of blood to a patient in need of that unit. They may identify the microorganisms associated with health and disease. They are also competent operators of the computers and complex instrumentation which are used in most areas of today’s laboratories.
The Medical Technician plays a vital role in patient care by performing the full range of laboratory testing in six major areas of the laboratory: Hematology, Immunology, Microbiology, Body Fluids, Blood Banking, and Chemistry. Technicians may choose to advance, by education or experience, to the levels of Medical Technologist or specialist.
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Horticulture – Plymouth University
The University of Plymouth, together with its Partner Colleges, Cornwall College, Bridgwater College and Bicton College, provides opportunities for study in Applied Biosciences (Plant Sciences), Extended Science, Horticulture, Agriculture and Agricultural Management.
Learning and Cognition (PSYC320) – Angie Mackewn
Psychologie cognitive expérimentale
La mission de ce laboratoire est d’analyser les bases cérébrales des fonctions cognitives, chez l’homme normal et chez certains patients neurologiques, en développant et en exploitant les méthodes modernes de la neuro-imagerie conjointement à l’utilisation de paradigmes expérimentaux issus de la psychologie cognitive.
Les enseignements sont diffusés avec le soutien de la Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
Cambridge Language Sciences
Talks from events by Cambridge Language Sciences, a network to develop interedisciplinary research in the language sciences at the University of Cambridge
Savoirs contre pauvreté
Née en 1972, à Paris, Esther Duflo est professeur d’économie au Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) et membre fondateur du Laboratoire d’Action contre la Pauvreté, Abdul Latif Jameel (J-PAL), institution spécialisée dans la méthode de l’évaluation aléatoire des programmes de lutte contre la pauvreté. Elle a fait ses études à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure et au DELTA (Paris) ainsi qu’au MIT. Ses recherches portent sur le comportement des ménages, les choix éducatifs, la scolarisation, l’évaluation des politiques, la décentralisation et la microfinance.
Elle a a reçu plusieurs prix, dont le Elaine Bennett Prize for Research (2003), le Cercle des Economistes (Le Monde, 2005), Médaille de Bronze (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Département de Sciences de l’homme et de la société, 2005), et le Prix Luc Durand-Reville (Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, 2008).
Light & Electromagnetism – Physics of Life – Dr. Scott Turner, Professor, Department of Environmental & Forest Biology, SUNY-ESF
Light & Electromagnetism – Physics of Life
COSMO 2013
The seventeenth edition of the annual International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology – COSMO 2013 – will be held at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, Cambridge, UK in the week of September 2-6, 2013.
The COSMO series is one of the major venues of interaction between cosmologists and particle physicists. The year 2013 being the year of the first release of cosmological results from the Planck satellite, we consider it more important than ever to encourage such interactions between the fields. COSMO 13 will have an excellent line-up of plenary speakers. Some of the topics to be discussed at COSMO include:
Results from the Planck satellite
Results from the Large Hadron Collider
The large-scale structure of the Universe
Cosmic acceleration
String cosmology
Primordial cosmology
Numerical cosmology
Particle astrophysics
Dark matter
Seismology
The Long View – Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe Institute is famous for tackling “big questions” across all spatio-temporal scales, including those associated with deep history. These lectures address such topics as how life emerged, how innovative mechanisms in biology changed over hundreds of millions of years, and how languages evolved.
NOTE: Please excuse the production quality of some of our older videos. They were transferred from our video tape archive.
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