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20th Century Art

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20th Century Art

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Examination of the cultural and artistic developments of the twentieth century in Europe and the United States, surveying the artwork of Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Pop Art, and Op-Art, and Modern and Postmodern architecture.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Art History; Visual Arts
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

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88 Essays

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This book is a free and open resource for composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER rhetoric and writing texts that lack readings. All of the essays in this reader are versatile rhetorically and thematically. It is arranged alphabetically by author name. Each essay has a series of hashtags that apply to the essay in some way. You can search for essays thematically for topics like education, the environment, politics, or health. You can also search for essays based on composition concepts like analysis, synthesis, and research. You can search for essays that are based on shared values, essays that rely heavily on ethos, logos, or pathos, essays that are very kairos-dependent, and essays that are scholarly.

This resources is also available here: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy/Book%3A_88_Open_Essays_-_A_Reader_for_Students_of_Composition_and_Rhetoric_(Wangler_and_Ulrich)

Subject:: Literature and Composition; Composition and Rhetoric
Material Type:: Reading
Author:: Sarah Wangler; Tina Ulrich
Date Added:: 06/01/2020

ANOVA Calculations

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ANOVA Calculations

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This supplemental material is an online resource of OpenIntro Statistics, a textbook available for free in PDF at openintro.org and in paperback for about $10 at amazon.com.

Subject:: Mathematics; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Reading
Provider:: OpenIntro
Author:: Emiliano Vega; Ralf Youtz
Date Added:: 04/25/2019

APA Style Guide

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APA Style Guide

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The standard citation style guide book for the fields of business, education, health science, public service, and social science is the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2010. The American Psychological Association (APA) publishes the manual. We commonly refer to it as "the APA Manual".

The business, education, health science, public service, and social science departments at IRSC recommend APA format for papers written in these fields.

Two types of citations are included in most research papers: citations within the text of the document and a list of reference citations at the end of the paper.

In-Text Citations:

The APA Manual uses the author-date citation system for in-text citations.

Reference Citations:

The sources you use in your work are included as a separate list at the end of the paper. The APA Manual suggests using the title, References, for the list.

Subject:: Higher Education; Literature and Composition
Material Type:: Reading
Provider:: Indian River State College
Date Added:: 04/24/2019

ARTH101: Art Appreciation

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ARTH101: Art Appreciation

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This course is an exploration of visual art forms and their cultural connections for the student with little experience in the visual arts. It includes a brief study of art history, and in-depth studies of the elements, media, and methods used in creative thought and processes. It is the only resource I have found that approximates techniques, media, and an overview of different processes that is usually the first half of a printed text on art appreciation or an introduction to art. This is geared toward an undergraduate, lower-level student population. The art history survey is inadequate, but combined with another source, like Boundless' art history, this can be a complete text for an Art 100 course.

Subject:: Arts and Humanities
Material Type:: Assessment; Lecture; Module; Reading; Syllabus; Textbook; Unit of Study
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Author:: Afshan Bokhari; Amy Gansell; Andrew E. Hershberger; Andrew Marvick; Anne Bertrand-Dewsnap; Denise Rogers; Hilda Werschkul; Jelena Bogdanovic; Jennifer Palinkas; Jill Kiefer; Lynn E. Roller; Marjorie Munsterberg; Michelle Greet; Shaoqian Zhang; Tracy Musacchio; William V. Ganis
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

Abnormal Behavior

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Abnormal Behavior

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This course will help to define abnormal and normal behaviors and to group these abnormal phenomena into 'disorders.' It will cover the basic concepts surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal psychological phenomena. The student will investigate the characteristics, epidemiology, controversy, and treatment of individual disorders. The student will begin by defining normal versus abnormal behavior and reviewing the historical context in which abnormal psychology emerged, then discuss the major theories or paradigms associated with abnormal psychology, the classification system used to differentiate and define disorders, and the research methods often utilized in the study of abnormal psychology. Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to: describe the historical context from which the current conceptualization of abnormal psychology has evolved; identify and describe the main theoretical perspectives/paradigms which have influenced the field of abnormal psychology; identify and differentiate the classification of psychological disorders; evaluate treatment approaches; explain the major research findings for each group of disorders and how they add to our knowledge of the causes and treatment of psychological disorders. (Psychology 401)

Subject:: Psychology
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Lecture; Lecture Notes; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

Abomasum - Anatomy & Physiology

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Abomasum - Anatomy & Physiology

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The abomasum is the fourth chamber in the ruminant. It functions similarly to the carnivore stomach as it is glandular and digests food chemically, rather than mechanically or by fermentation like the other 3 chambers of the ruminant stomach.

Subject:: Natural Science; Anatomy/Physiology
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: WikiVet
Provider Set:: Anatomy & Physiology
Date Added:: 12/27/2018

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Acceso

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The University of Kansas Collaborative Digital Spanish Project (Acceso) is an open-access, digital learning environment designed to promote the acquisition of Spanish and the development of cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share Spanish as a common language.

Subject:: Languages
Material Type:: Module; Primary Source; Reading
Author:: The University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center
Date Added:: 07/09/2020

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Accounting II

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This course is a review of concepts of how accounting is designed to help management make its most important financial decisions. It starts by reviewing the principles that should guide accounting in order to serve the purpose for which accounting is designed. Accounting for different business forms is contrasted. Analytical approaches for decisions related to the cost of production, volume and investment are introduced. The emphasis is on the ability of the accounting function to provide the needed information for the firm to remain profitable.

Subject:: Accounting
Material Type:: Assessment; Homework/Assignment; Reading
Author:: Andrew J. Fella; John Petroff
Date Added:: 12/02/2018

Acoustic Remote Sensing and Sea Floor Mapping

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Acoustic Remote Sensing and Sea Floor Mapping

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The course treats the following topics: - Relevant physical oceanography - Elements of marine geology (seafloor topography, acoustical properties of sediments and rocks) - Underwater sound propagation (ray acoustics, ocean noise) - Interaction of sound with the seafloor (reflection, scattering) - Principles of sonar (beamforming) - Underwater acoustic mapping systems (single beam echo sounding, multi-beam echo sounding, sidescan sonar) - Data analysis (refraction corrections, digital terrain modelling) - Applications (hydrographic survey planning and navigation, coastal engineering) - Current and future developments.

Subject:: Engineering; Oceanography
Material Type:: Homework/Assignment; Lecture Notes; Reading
Provider:: Delft University of Technology
Provider Set:: Delft University OpenCourseWare
Author:: dr.ir. M. Snellen
Date Added:: 02/09/2016

Active Transport - Physiology

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Active Transport - Physiology

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Active transport is reliant on carrier proteins and thus follows the same rules as facilitated diffusion in that they are specific have a maximum rate and are subject to competition. Crucially they transport substances against their concentration gradient and so require energy to work.

Subject:: Natural Science; Anatomy/Physiology
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: WikiVet
Provider Set:: Anatomy & Physiology
Date Added:: 12/27/2018

Adopting and Evaluating OER

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Adopting and Evaluating OER

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As faculty, you assess textbooks against a set of criteria that reflects your long experience and knowledge of student needs. You do the same with Open Textbooks, but there are a few additional considerations.

Subject:: Education
Material Type:: Reading
Provider:: Lansing Community College
Author:: Regina Gong
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

Adrenal Glands - Anatomy & Physiology

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Adrenal Glands - Anatomy & Physiology

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The adrenal glands are paired bodies lying cranial to the kidneys within the retroperitoneal space. The glands consist of two layers; the cortex and medulla.

Subject:: Natural Science; Anatomy/Physiology
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: WikiVet
Provider Set:: Anatomy & Physiology
Date Added:: 12/27/2018

Advanced Emergency Trauma

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Advanced Emergency Trauma

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In 2009, the University of Michigan Department of Emergency Medicine working with global health partners at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Ghana Ministry of Health established the Ghana Emergency Medicine Collaborative. The overall goal of the collaborative is to improve the provision of emergency care in Ghana through the development of physician, nursing and medical student training programs. This NIH-Fogarty International Center funded project also explores the use of new educational modalities such as open educational resources to provide education in Ghana. ** As part of this project, a 5-day Advanced Emergency Trauma Course (AETC) was constructed utilizing curricular materials from existing U.S. based emergency medicine residencies with modification to the available resources of developing Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) such as Ghana. The course, which was designed by University of Michigan and University of Utah Emergency Medicine Faculty includes 20 hours of didactic teaching material in open educational resource format, low-cost simulation models for procedural training and assessment tools. Attached are the full 20 hours of didactic materials in OER format. The full course is available by contacting the course director, Patrick Carter at cartpatr@gmail.com.

Subject:: Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:: Lecture; Reading
Author:: Carl Seger; Daniel Wachter; Patrick Carter; Rockefeller Oteng
Date Added:: 03/23/2020

Advanced Solid State Physics

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Advanced Solid State Physics

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This course is about the electronic properties of materials and contains lectures about scattering, transport in metals, phonons and superconductivity.

Subject:: Physics
Material Type:: Assessment; Lecture Notes; Reading
Provider:: Delft University of Technology
Provider Set:: Delft University OpenCourseWare
Author:: Y.M. Blanter
Date Added:: 02/03/2016

Advanced Spanish Composition II

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Advanced Spanish Composition II

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As part of the Worcester State University OER initiative in Spring 2017, Dr. Elizabeth Osborne created and translated course materials for her SP 322, Advanced Spanish Composition II, course. Materials have been divided into peer review (revisión por pares) handouts, close reading activities (actividades de lectura detallada) and other miscellaneous materials. The materials included here are by no means exhaustive, but they serve as a starting point to making education affordable and to filling the gap in Spanish-language OER for upper division courses.

Subject:: Spanish
Material Type:: Homework/Assignment; Reading
Author:: Elizabeth Osborne
Date Added:: 06/23/2020

Advertising and Promotion (Business 306)

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Advertising and Promotion (Business 306)

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The purpose of this course is to lead students in an exploration of fundamental advertising principles and the role advertising plays in the promotional mix. You will learn where advertising fits in the Marketing Mix, also known as the four Ps: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. Although some consider all promotion synonymous with advertising, you will learn the unique characteristics that separate advertising from other forms of promotional communication. You will revisit some familiar marketing concepts within a new framework, approaching the subject from the advertiserŐs perspective.

Subject:: Business and Communication; Marketing
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 10/22/2018

African-American Literature

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African-American Literature

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This course considers the impact of storytelling and spirituals on the literary production of African American authors from the Colonial period to the current day, examining the cultural, historical, and political contexts of the literature, as well as how the issues of gender, race, and class affect the production and meaning of these works. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: identify the cultural influences and the development of African American literature; analyze the evolution of African American literature from an oral to a literary tradition; define the functions of African American literature from its inception in the period of slavery to the contemporary period; identify the major authors and/or literary works in the various literary periods and movements (Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance Movement; Harlem Renaissance; Realism, Naturalism, and modernism; Black Arts; and the Contemporary Period). This free course may be completed online at any time. (English Literature 411)

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Literature
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Lecture; Reading; Syllabus; Textbook
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

African American Literature: Course Readings for African American Literature

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African American Literature: Course Readings for African American Literature

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AAS 267, African American Literature, is a survey course that will take us from the early days of enslavement to the present. We will read, analyze, and discuss literary texts written by African Americans, paying particular attention to the political, historical and social context that informs these texts.

Subject:: Literature; African-American Literature
Material Type:: Reading
Author:: Anne Rice
Date Added:: 10/04/2019

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African Art

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This course will introduce the student to the art and architecture of Africa from a Western art historical perspective. This course will emphasize the role of art as manifested in the lifestyles, spiritualities, and philosophies of particular African societies, while also broaching aesthetic principles and the study and display of African art. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: demonstrate an understanding of transitions in the national geography of the African continent from the 17th century to the present; demonstrate an understanding of the ethnic diversity and distinct cultural traditions among people of Africa; identify and discuss materials and techniques employed in the creation of a range of African artistic and architectural works; discuss the functions and meanings of a range of African art forms; identify traditional styles and forms strongly associated with particular cultural groups. (Art History 304)

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Art History; Ethnic Studies
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

African Politics

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African Politics

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This course will provide the student with a broad overview of African politics placed within the context of Africa's recent history, taking into account Africa's colonial relationships and then the post-colonial period. This course will analyze on the internal workings and challenges of African states, including their movements towards democratization, their economic statuses, the connections between their governmental and non-governmental institutions/organizations, and the various ways in which their societies and cultures impact their politics. This course also asks questions about the nature of Africa's conflicts, reviewing larger trends within Africa's political economy, and inquiring about the promise of continental and sub-continental political integration efforts. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: explain how colonialism and independence movements contributed to and shaped contemporary African statehood; identify the main causes of state and political failure in Africa; define underdevelopment and explain the causes of economic failure in Africa; discuss the causes of civil and interstate conflict in Africa; apply knowledge of Africa's history to explain current causes of crisis and the roles of different actors within the state and international community; compare and contrast economically and politically stable states with those that are unstable and identify the main features of stability; identify and explain some of the major social, cultural, and economic challenges (such as HIV/AIDS) that contemporary African states face, as well as the role international actors play in addressing these challenges. (Political Science 325)

Subject:: Political Science
Material Type:: Full Course; Lecture; Lecture Notes; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

Agent Based Modeling of Complex Adaptive Systems (Basic)

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Agent Based Modeling of Complex Adaptive Systems (Basic)

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Our human society consists of many intertwined Large Scale Socio-Technical Systems (LSSTS), such as infrastructures, industrial networks, the financial systems etc. Environmental pressures created by these systems on EarthŰŞs carrying capacity are leading to exhaustion of natural resources, loss of habitats and biodiversity, and are causing a resource and climate crisis. To avoid this sustainability crisis, we urgently need to transform our production and consumption patterns. Given that we, as inhabitants of this planet, are part of a complex and integrated global system, where and how should we begin this transformation? And how can we also ensure that our transformation efforts will lead to a sustainable world? LSSTS and the ecosystems that they are embedded in are known to be Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). According to John Holland CAS are "...a dynamic network of many agents (which may represent cells, species, individuals, firms, nations) acting in parallel, constantly acting and reacting to what the other agents are doing. The control of a CAS tends to be highly dispersed and decentralized. If there is to be any coherent behavior in the system, it will have to to arise from competition and cooperation among the agents themselves. The overall behavior of the system is the result of a huge number of decisions made every moment" by many individual agents. Understanding Complex Adaptive Systems requires tools that themselves are complex to create and understand. Shalizi defines Agent Based Modeling as "An agent is a persistent thing which has some state we find worth representing, and which interacts with other agents, mutually modifying each otherŰŞs states. The components of an agent-based model are a collection of agents and their states, the rules governing the interactions of the agents and the environment within which they live." This course will explore the theory of CAS and their main properties. It will also teach you how to work with Agent Based Models in order to model and understand CAS.

Subject:: Engineering; Environmental Science
Material Type:: Assessment; Lecture Notes; Reading
Provider:: Delft University of Technology
Provider Set:: Delft University OpenCourseWare
Author:: Dr. Ir. I. Nikolic; Dr.ir. I. Bouwmans
Date Added:: 03/03/2016

The Age of Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1776-1848

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This course introduces the history of the Age of Revolutions in the Atlantic World from 1776 to 1848. Running alongside and extending beyond these political revolutions is the First Industrial Revolution. The Atlantic World, dominated by European empires in 1776, was transformed through revolution into a series of independent states by 1848, experiencing profound changes through the development and consolidation of capitalism. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: think analytically about the history of the revolutionary age between 1776 and 1848; define what a revolution" means as well as describe what made 1776-1848 an "age of revolution"; define the concept of the Atlantic World and describe its importance in World History; explain the basic intellectual and technical movements associated with the Enlightenment and their relations to the revolutionary movements that follow; identify and describe the causes of the American Revolution; identify and describe the many stages of the French Revolution: the end of absolutist monarchy, the implementation of constitutional monarchy, and the rise of the Jacobin Republic; compare and contrast the Declaration of the Rights of Man and other major statements of the Revolutionary period and Enlightenment thinking; identify and describe the impact of the first successful slave rebellion in world history--the Haitian Revolution; compare and contrast the debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine; analyze and interpret primary source documents that elucidate the causes and effects of the Age of Revolutions. This free course may be completed online at any time. (History 303)

Subject:: World History
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Lecture; Reading; Syllabus; Textbook
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 02/20/2019

The Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1900

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The Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1900

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This course will introduce the student to the history of the Atlantic slave trade from 1500 to 1900. The student will learn about the slave trade, its causes, and its effects on Africa, Europe, and the Americas. By the end of the course, the student will understand how the Atlantic slave trade began as a fledgling enterprise of the English, Portuguese, and Spanish in the 1500s and why, by the mid-eighteenth century, the trade dominated Atlantic societies and economies. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: think analytically about the various meanings of 'slave' and 'slavery' during the age of the Atlantic slave trade; identify and describe the 'triangular trade' and define the Atlantic World; identify and describe the logic for enslavement of Africans by Europeans; identify and describe the African ethnic groups enslaved by Europeans and those captives' New World destinations; identify and describe the early slaving voyages of the Portuguese and Spanish. Students will also be able to describe how the Dutch and English later inserted themselves into the trade; identify and describe the expansion of the plantation complex in the New World in the 1600s and its impact on the Atlantic slave trade; identify and analyze the rise of European empires and the parallel expansion of the Atlantic slave trade; identify and analyze slavery within African societies. They will also be able to identify and describe the trans-Saharan slave trade and the Red Sea/Indian Ocean slave trade; identify and describe the nature of the African slave market and principal slaving ports in western Africa; analyze and describe New World slave societies and their impact on the Atlantic slave trade; identify and describe the 'Middle Passage' of the Atlantic slave trade; identify and describe the causes for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century; analyze and interpret primary source documents that elucidate all aspects of the Atlantic slave trade. (History 311)

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; World History
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Lecture; Lecture Notes; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 02/20/2019

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Aldosterone

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Aldosterone is a steroid hormone which is secreted from the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal gland. It has a mineralocorticoid activity and is the most important regulator of plasma potassium. When plasma potassium increases, increased stimulation of aldosterone occurs directly and also as a result of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (RAAS). Aldosterone is also the most important regulator of sodium excretion.

Subject:: Natural Science; Anatomy/Physiology
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: WikiVet
Provider Set:: Anatomy & Physiology
Date Added:: 12/27/2018

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Algoritmiek

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This course treats various methods to design and analyze datastructures and algorithms for a wide range of problems. The most important new datastructure treated is the graph, and the general methods introduced are: greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming and network flow algorithms. These general methods are explained by a number of concrete examples, such as simple scheduling algorithms, Dijkstra, Ford-Fulkerson, minimum spanning tree, closest-pair-of-points, knapsack, and Bellman-Ford. Throughout this course there is significant attention to proving the correctness of the discussed algorithms. All material for this course is in English. The recorded lectures, however, are in Dutch.

Subject:: Engineering
Material Type:: Homework/Assignment; Lecture; Lecture Notes; Reading; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: Delft University of Technology
Provider Set:: Delft University OpenCourseWare
Author:: M. de Weerdt
Date Added:: 04/25/2019

Alimentary System - Horse Anatomy

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Alimentary System - Horse Anatomy

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The horse is a monogastric hindgut fermenter. The horse evolved for grazing and it does so for up to 17 hours a day. A high proportion of the horse's dietary carbohydrate is in the form of starch. A mature horse eats 2-2.5% of it's body weight in dry matter every day, 1.5-1.75% of this should be fibre (hay/haylage). This is to prevent a rapid drop in pH in the large intestine and also to stimulate peristalsis in the gut and prevent build up of gas.

Subject:: Natural Science; Anatomy/Physiology
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: WikiVet
Provider Set:: Anatomy & Physiology
Date Added:: 12/27/2018

Alimentary System Overview - Anatomy & Physiology

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Alimentary System Overview - Anatomy & Physiology

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Gives an overview of the anatomy and physiology of mammalian and avian animals' alimentary systems.

Subject:: Natural Science; Anatomy/Physiology
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: WikiVet
Provider Set:: Anatomy & Physiology
Date Added:: 12/27/2018

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American Art

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This course surveys art of America from the colonial era through the post-war 20th century. The student will consider broad stylistic tendencies in various regions and periods and examine specific artists and works of art in historical and social contexts, with emphasis on the congruent evolution of contemporary American multi-cultural identity. Overarching issues that have interested major scholars of American art and its purview include the landscape (wilderness, Manifest Destiny, rural settlement, and urban development); the family and gender roles; the founding rhetoric of freedom and antebellum slavery; and notions of artistic modernism through the 20th century. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: Understand the historical (geographic, political) formation of the present United States of America; Be familiar with renowned influential American artists from the 18th through the 20th century; Be conversant in common stylistic designations used in Western art of the 17th through 20th centuries; Recognize subjects and forms in American art through history that mark its distinction; Be able to engage specific images, objects, and structures from different critical perspectives to consider their functions and meanings. (Art History 210)

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Art History
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Lecture; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

American Government

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American Government

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Introductory course on American Government, designed also to prepare for the College Board's CLEP subject matter exam.

Subject:: Sociology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

American Government (POLS 202)

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American Government (POLS 202)

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This course covers American Government: the Constitution, the branches of government (Presidency, Congress, Judiciary) and how politics works: elections, voting, parties, campaigning, policy making. In addition weęll look at how the media, interest groups, public opinion polls and political self-identification (are you liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican or something else?) impact politics and political choices. Weęll also cover the basics in economic, social and foreign policy and bring in current issues and show how they illustrate the process.

Subject:: Political Science
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Reading; Syllabus; Textbook
Provider:: Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
Provider Set:: Open Course Library
Date Added:: 04/26/2019

American Literature I (ENGL 246)

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American Literature I (ENGL 246)

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In this class we will practice skills in reading, analyzing, and writing about fiction, poetry and drama from a select sampling of 20th Century American Literature. Through class discussion, close reading, and extensive writing practice, this course seeks to develop critical and analytical skills, preparing students for more advanced academic work.

Subject:: Literature
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
Provider Set:: Open Course Library
Date Added:: 04/26/2019

American Political Thought

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American Political Thought

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This course will cover American political thought from the nation's founding through the 1960s, exploring the political theories that have shaped its governance. As there is no one philosopher or idea that represents the totality of American political thought, the student will survey the writings and speeches of those who have had the greatest impact over this period of time. Much of the study required in this course is based on the original texts and speeches of those who influenced political thought throughout American history. The student will learn and understand the impact that their views and actions have had on the modern American state. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: describe the religious and political origins of the American political system; explain how Enlightenment thinkers, such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Baron de Montesquieu, influenced the political philosophies of American founding fathers; analyze how the colonial American experience shaped many of the core values represented in American government and expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution; compare and contrast the differing opinions on the role of the government that the founders expressed; trace the development and evolution of the concepts of 'states rights' and 'federal (national) supremacy'; connect the observations of De Tocqueville in Democracy in America to the concepts of equality, individuality, and civic engagement in American political discourse; examine the evolution of race in the American political system (from slavery to the 2008 election of Barack Obama); discuss the changes in the political role of women in America from its colonial days to the present; connect the concept of 'American Exceptionalism' to the industrial revolution, capitalism, and imperialism; analyze the roots of reform in the Progressive Era and their impact on modern political discourse; explain major principles of American foreign relations over time; assess the purpose and impact of ĺÎĺĺĺŤAmerican war rhetoricĄ_ĺĺö over time; differentiate between 'liberal' and 'conservative' political beliefs in modern American government; illustrate how the political turmoil in the 1960s greatly shaped contemporary American political discourse; evaluate the current political discourse as represented in the 2008 and 2010 elections. (Political Science 301)

Subject:: Political Science
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Lecture; Lecture Notes; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

The American Renaissance

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The American Renaissance

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The ĺÎĺ_ĺĚĄ_American Renaissance,ĺÎĺ_ĺĚĺÎĺ a period of tremendous literary activity that took place in America between the 1830s and 1860s represents the cultivation of a distinctively American literature. The student will begin this course by looking at what it was in American culture and society that led to the dramatic outburst of literary creativity in this era. The student will then explore some of the periodĺÎĺ_ĺĚĺ_s most famous works, attempting to define the emerging American identity represented in this literature. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: discriminate among the key economic, technological, social, and cultural transformations underpinning the American Renaissance; define the transformations in American Protestantism exemplified by the second Great Awakening and transcendentalism; list the key tenets of transcendentalism and relate them to romanticism more broadly and to social and cultural developments in the antebellum United States; analyze EmersonĺÎĺ_ĺĚĺ_s place in defining transcendentalism and his key differences from other transcendentalists; analyze competing conceptualizations of poetry and its construction and purpose, with particular attention to Poe, Emerson, and Whitman; define the formal innovations of Dickinson and their relationship to her central themes; describe the emergence of the short story as a form, with reference to specific stories by Hawthorne and Poe; distinguish among forms of the novel, with reference to specific works by Hawthorne, Thompson, and Fern; analyze the ways that writers such as Melville, Brownson, Davis, and Thoreau saw industrialization and capitalism as a threat to U. S. society; develop the relationship between ThoreauĺÎĺ_ĺĚĺ_s interest in nature and his political commitments and compare and contrast his thinking with Emerson and other transcendentalists; analyze the different ways that sentimentalism constrained and empowered women writers to critique gender conventions, with reference to specific works by writers such as Fern, Alcott, and Stowe; define the ways that the slavery question influenced major texts and major controversies over literature during this period. This free course may be completed online at any time. (English Literature 405)

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Literature
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

American Sign Language I (ASL 121)

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American Sign Language I (ASL 121)

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ASL I is an introduction to the naturally existing language widely used by Deaf people in North America. Since ASL is a visual-gestural language, students will need to develop unique communication skills. These consist of using the hands, body, face, eyes and space. In order to achieve progress in this class, it is important to become comfortable communicating with your whole body and listening with your eyes.

Subject:: Languages
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
Provider Set:: Open Course Library
Date Added:: 04/26/2019

American Sign Language II (ASL 122)

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American Sign Language II (ASL 122)

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ASL II is a sequential course following ASL I, which continues to build knowledge of the naturally existing language widely used by Deaf people in North America. Since ASL is a visual-gestural language, students will need to continue to develop unique communication skills. These consist of using the hands, body, face, eyes and space. In order to achieve progress in this class, it is important to become comfortable communicating with your whole body and listening with your eyes.

Subject:: Languages
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
Provider Set:: Open Course Library
Date Added:: 04/26/2019

American Sign Language III (ASL 123)

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American Sign Language III (ASL 123)

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ASL III is the third quarter of the first year study of American Sign Language (ASL) and the people who use it. ASL III will enhance the use of ASL grammar and consist of concentrated efforts to develop the studentęs expressive and receptive skills. The course will continue to provide insights into Deaf Cultural values, attitudes and the Deaf community. Now learning more abstract concepts of the language, ASL III students will be able to: narrate events that occurred in the past, ask for solutions to everyday problems, tell about life events, and describe objects. Students will also be able to: demonstrate intermediate finger spelling competency, generate complex ASL structures with intermediate vocabulary knowledge, execute a wide variety of grammatical principles, including classifiers and inflections, adapt to different sign language registers, dialects and accents, and create opportunities to interact with members of the Deaf community.

Subject:: Languages; World Cultures
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
Provider Set:: Open Course Library
Date Added:: 04/26/2019

American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922

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American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922

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LibriVox recording of a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Includes selections from Mary E. Wilkins, Kate Chopin, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Dunbar, Willa Cather, Lola Ridge, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Fannie Hurst, Zitkala-Sa, Amy Lowell, Hilda Doolittle, Elinor Wylie, Lucretia P. Hale, Edna Ferber, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Lydia Maria Child, Sara Teasdale, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

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Subject:: Literature
Material Type:: Reading
Author:: Alice Dunbar; Amy Lowell; and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Edna Ferber; Elinor Wylie; Fannie Hurst; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Hilda Doolittle; Kate Chopin; Lola Ridge; Louisa May Alcott; Lucretia P. Hale; Lydia Maria Child; Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman; Mary E. Wilkins; Sara Teasdale; Susan Fenimore Cooper; Willa Cather; Zitkala-Sa
Date Added:: 07/29/2019

Anaesthesia and Surgery - Small Mammals

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Anaesthesia and Surgery - Small Mammals

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Because small mammals are prey species, they do not take to intensive conditions of surgery and hospitalisation very readily. Those that are handled very frequently by their owners are more bonded with humans and better surgical subjects as a result. Rodents and rabbits are particularly susceptible to the surgical complications of dehydration (blood and fluid loss), core temperature depression, hypovolaemic shock, ileus and renal and respiratory depression.

Subject:: Natural Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: WikiVet
Provider Set:: Anasthesia
Date Added:: 12/27/2018

Analytic epidemiological studies

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Analytic epidemiological studies

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Analytic epidemiological studies aim to investigate and identify factors associated with the presence of disease within populations, through the investigation of factors which may vary between individual members of these populations. Details on study designs appropriate for these investigations are given elsewhere. Conceptually, this involves investigating the disease experience amongst different 'groups' of animals within an overall population, distinguished according to the factor(s) of interest. These factors can be classified as one of the components of the 'epidemiological triad' of Host, Agent and Environment, many of which are closely interrelated with each other.

Subject:: Natural Science
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: WikiVet
Provider Set:: Veterinary Epidemiology
Date Added:: 12/27/2018