2014 Diagnostics by Design Workshop Day
Hosted by the PoCDx IdeaLab (http://pocdx.org), Tekla Labs (http://www.teklalabs.org), and the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases (http://cend.globalhealth.berkeley.edu/)
"The Value Chain for Diagnostics: Concept to Product to Implementation"
Moderated by Madhu Pai, Associate Professor, McGill University
Panelists:
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Statistics 21, 001 - Fall 2014
Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business - Fletcher H Ibser
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Mehdi Maghsoodnia is a serial entrepreneur and sought-after advisor/boardmember with over 20 years building great teams. He has taken a number of companies from early stage through successful business or acquisition including Bookrenter.com/Rafter, Intellisync and CafePress. He is most recently the founder of Combustion Ventures.
Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconductors, and quantum physics. [courses] [physics10] [spring2006] Credits: lecturer:Professor Richard A. Muller, producers:Educational Technology Services
Evolutionary biologist Robert Dudley discusses his new book and implications for understanding alcoholism.
Read the story here: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/07/01/drunken-monkeys-and-our-thirst-for-booze/
Ever since childhood, when he saw his father descend into alcoholism, evolutionary physiologist Robert Dudley has been curious about humans' strong attraction to booze.
The notion crystallized one day 18 years ago in the monkey-filled jungles of Panama, when he observed an abundance of rotting fruit littering the forest floor, fragrant with the smell of alcohol. Perhaps, he thought, the odor of alcohol in fermenting, overripe fruit actually draws monkeys to the trees, normally hidden among the lush greenery, where nourishing fruit are most abundant. Maybe human attraction to alcohol is not unique in the animal world, and actually has a survival advantage.
Dudley, who specializes in the biomechanics of flight, spent the ensuing years accumulating evidence for this hypothesis, which he presents in a new book, "The Drunken Monkey, Why we drink and abuse alcohol" (UC Press 2014). He recently discussed his motivations for writing the book, the evidence that our attraction to alcohol is an evolutionary adaptation, and what this finding means for efforts to prevent alcohol abuse.
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