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Charles Darwin lectures at the University of Nottingham
No full textAs part of the University of Nottingham, School of Biology's 200 years of Darwin celebrations,
Darwin — aka evolutionary geneticist Professor John Brookfield in full Victorian attire — outlines the ideas from his 1859 breakthrough publication The Origin of Species, which presented the theory of natural selection as the main driving force for evolution.
Presentation delivered March 2009
Suitable for Undergraduate study and community education
Professor John Brookfield, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, School of Biology
Professor John Brookfield has a BA in Zoology, University of Oxford 1976; PhD in Population Genetics, University of London 1980; He has worked as a Research Demonstrator in Genetics, University College of Swansea 1979-1981; Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Genetics, The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina 1981-1983; Lecturer in Genetics, University of Leicester 1983-1986; Lecturer (1987), Reader (1997) and Professor of Evolutionary Genetics (2004) University of Nottingham. He was Managing Editor, Heredity (2000-2003). Vice-President (External Affairs), Genetics Society 2008-, Appointed Fellow of the Institute of Biology, 2009. Member RAE Biological Sciences Panel and Sub-Panel, 2001 and 2008
Education - eChina UK Project
No full textBNU / BFSU case study - Visual Learning - This case study outlines the two eELT training projects that the University of Nottingham developed, in collaboration with Beijing Normal University and Beijing Foreign Studies University. This case study outlines the two eELT training projects that the University of Nottingham developed, in collaboration with Beijing Normal University and Beijing Foreign Studies University. Both sets of material supported self-study and small group work online that is scalable throughout HE in China. Also, both projects used a wide range of media and technologies that were matched to learning and teaching needs.
Sport
No full textThis online exhibition features a small selection of material held by Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham relating to sport. It includes photographs of University sports teams and items relating to the wider history of team sports and individual exercise through the centuries
International Classification of Function, Disability and Health
No full textThis package was originally designed for undergraduates in Medicine at the University of Nottingham. It will also be useful to students in nursing, allied health professions and pharmacy. Practitioners in these fields, who are new to the ICF, will also find it a useful introduction. It describes the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a classification system published by the World Health Organisation to describe health status. This system is widely used in rehabilitation research and practice to describe impairments of body structure and function and how these impact on activities and participation. By the end of this package you should be able to: - List and describe the five domains of the ICF. - Apply the ICF to real-life patient scenarios in order to understand your patient's health status.
Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest
No full textThis online exhibition highlights resources for the study of Robin Hood in the collections held by Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham. It includes examples from printed versions of the Robin Hood story in collections of traditional ballad literature, in popular chap books and in stories for children. It also features documents which can be used for the study of the historical Sherwood Forest and its laws
BURN - Biosciences Undergraduate Research at Nottingham
No full textThis is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file. Research produced 2006 - 2009. BURN brings final year undergraduate research work to public view in a professional and relevant way. The students represented here have risen to the challenges of doing rigorous research and presenting their work to a wider audience. Their articles show the distance they have travelled during their studies. They also demonstrate the inquiry and critical thinking skills that have been developed. As graduates, they will be able to exploit these valuable skills in their careers, whether they continue in science or whatever path they may choose. Suitable for undergraduate study Coordinated by Dr Martin Luck, School of Biosciences Dr Martin Luck is Associate Professor of Animal Physiology at the University of Nottingham. After reading Animal Physiology at Nottingham, he moved to the University of Leeds to complete a Masters in Steroid Endocrinology and a PhD in Physiology. He carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Southampton and then moved to Hamburg, Germany where he led a research group investigating ovarian follicular development. He returned to Nottingham as an academic in 1990. Dr Luck also has a BA in Mathematics, is a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Higher Education Academy and is Chair of the Management Board of Bioscience Horizons, the National Undergraduate Research Journal. He has held teaching advisory posts at the University and been a consultant for the Quality Assurance Agency and Higher Education Academy.
Sport
No full textThis online exhibition features a small selection of material held by Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham relating to sport. It includes photographs of University sports teams and items relating to the wider history of team sports and individual exercise through the centuries.
Secondary currents and morphological evolution in a bifurcated channel
No full textIn studies of flow structures on single-thread meandering rivers, secondary currents have been shown to have a large influence on the morphological development of meander bends. Until this joint study between FAP 24 and the University of Nottingham, UK, there had been few similar studies carried out on the influence of secondary currents on large braided rivers such as the Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh. As a consequence of this lack of fieldwork, our understanding of braided river behaviour and the development of predictive tools have been impeded. This document reports on a series of field surveys to investigate the flow distributions around a braid bar in the Brahmaputra River near Bahadurabad. Results demonstrate linkages between large scale secondary current cells and the pattern of primary flow and the pathways of concentrated suspended sediment around the bar. Patterns observed along the flanks of the braid bar curved anabranch are similar to those observed in single-thread meandering channel bends. Patterns observed at the flow bifurcation upstream of the bar demonstrate how the secondary currents influence the development of the bifurcation through their effect on the near bed primary flow pattern and sediment transport. The results further demonstrate that an Acoustic Doppier Current Profiler is a powerful instrument, capable of investigating three-dimensional coherent flow structures in large rivers. A copy of all the data presented in this document is contained on a 3.5" diskette in ASCII text format attached to the back cover.River Survey Projec
Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest
No full textThis online exhibition highlights resources for the study of Robin Hood in the collections held by Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham. It includes examples from printed versions of the Robin Hood story in collections of traditional ballad literature, in popular chap books and in stories for children. It also features documents which can be used for the study of the historical Sherwood Forest and its laws.
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