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Sutton explains that the majority of research money given to universities does not result in commercially viable products. However, continuing it is often more for the system than the result.
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Problems with Ownership of Memory, How Default Implementation of Stackdispose Does Not Free Dynamically Allocated Data, Adding a Free Function to the Stack Implementation, Rewriting Stackdispose to Incorporate It, Writing a Free Function for a Stack of C-Strings, Pitfalls When Writing Such Functions, C Library Functions for Assignment 3 - Memmove (Memcpy That Can Copy Using Two Regions That Overlap), Example of Rotate Function, C Qsort Fun...more
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According to Wirt, PalmOne and Palm Source are now completely separate companies; PalmOne does hardware and PalmSource focuses on developing and licensing the operating system.
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In this lecture, Professor Diamond moves in depth into the digestive system, discussing the tongue, salivary glands, layers of the digestive track, esophagus, stomach, and small intestine. She discusses the components of the tongue, including the taste buds, and describes the tongue's function in mixing food with saliva and amylase enzymes, swallowing, and talking. Professor Diamond goes on to describe how saliva is generated and transmi...more
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When CEO Eric Schmidt started at Google, his job was largely centered around providing some organizational design. The culture was working well but the company needed more structure. He hired a financial and controller system, instituted staff meetings, and set and reviewed quarterly objectives.
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Control - Overview, Joint Space Control, Resolved Motion Rate Control, Natural Systems, Dissipative Systems, Example, Passive System Stability
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The global AIDS pandemic furnishes a case study for many of the themes addressed throughout the course. While in the developed West the disease largely afflicts concentrated high-risk groups such as intravenous drug users and the sexually promiscuous, in Southern Africa it is much more a generalized disease of poverty. In countries such as Botswana and Swaziland, the economic and social consequences of the disease have created a vicious ci...more
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In this lecture, Professor Diamond continues her discussion of the nervous system and begins by reviewing the telencephalon before transitioning into a discussion of the six layers of the neocortex. She discusses the hippocampal-dentate complex, the archicortex, and the temporal lobe, which contains the hippocampus and pyramidal cells along with the fimbrea, fornix, and mammilary bodies. To enhance students' understanding of the neural tu...more
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In the last decade of the nineteenth century, malariology emerged as the most prestigious and intellectually exciting field in the new discipline of tropical medicine. The disease's complexity and resistance to conventional public health strategies posed a major challenge to doctors and scientists. Plague measures and social hygiene had no effect in curbing malaria, and the disease proved difficult to classify. The case of Italy, and the m...more
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Of all the diseases studied in this course, malaria has been responsible for the most human suffering. It has evolved alongside humans, and impacted human biology as well as civilization. In the former case, this impact is evident in genetic diseases like sickle-cell anemia which, while increasing vulnerability to a host of other illnesses, has the advantage of conferring substantial resistance to malaria. In social terms, malaria's debili...more
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Smith believes that the most successful teams combine someone who has experience within the system, someone who understands technology, and a sales expert. The environment of the group has to be team based, with each member having a voice in the company.
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The disintegration of the Soviet Union resulted from a number of different factors. Three important ones are nationalism among Soviet satellite states, democratic opposition movements, and economic crisis. Along with these elements, the role of Mikhail Gorbachev should not be discounted. Although his attempt to reform communism was rejected, his reformist positions as Soviet premier helped open the way for full-fledged political dissidence...more
