3D-printed heart-on-a-chip with integrated sensors

source: Harvard University    2016年10月24日
Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and customized, allowing researchers to easily collect reliable data for short-term and long-term studies.

The Spiritist Religions of Brazil with Stanley Krippner

source: New Thinking Allowed   2016年10月10日
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Saybrook University, is a Fellow in four APA divisions, and past-president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he was director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, in Brooklyn NY. He is co-author of Dream Telepathy, Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them, The Mythic Path, and Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans, and co-editor of Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion, Healing Tales, Healing Stories, Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence, Advances in Parapsychological Research and many other books. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and has published cross-cultural studies on spiritual content in dreams.
Here Stanley Krippner discusses the three main spiritist religions of Brazil: Candomblé, Umbanda, and Kardecismo. Candomblé and Umbanda are, essentially, variations of the African Yoruba tradition. The African slaves in Brazil incorporated Catholic Saints into their religion in order to disguise the fact that they were still worshipping the deities of their homeland. The Kardecismo tradition was imported from Europe, based on the spiritist writings of the French pedagogue, Allan Kardec. Krippner describes his own research with spiritist mediums of these traditions, pointing out that when they incorporated spiritual entities measurable changes occurred in their physiology.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also past-president of the non-profit Intuition Network, an organization dedicated to creating a world in which all people are encouraged to cultivate and apply their inner, intuitive abilities.
(Recorded on May 14, 2016)

探索16-2講座：封神榜裡面的角色是怎麼來的？---談人類先天性缺損(human birth defects)--謝豐舟教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心    2016年11月8日
封神榜中的角色，長得奇形怪狀，作者的靈感從何而來？我想有可能是，根據從古至今人類所看到的先天性缺損病患的長相，發想而來。童話中的獨眼巨人，很可能是第13號染色體的異常(Trisomy 13)，而泰國的四面佛可能是發想自連體嬰。
本系列的主題是：「發育的奧秘」。發育是細胞形成組織，再形成器官，眾多器官集合成一個生物。每個生物，每個器官，都有其固定的大小，形狀，構造。重點是大小，形狀，構造要正常，才會有正常的功能。這個過程就是「發育」。就像水泥，磚塊，沙石，木材一定要形成牆壁，屋頂，門窗，最後成為一間可以居住的房子，否則水泥，沙石，磚塊，木材不會有居住的功用。生物學裡面最深奧的，不是癌症學，就是如何形成構造旳「發育生物學」了。
發育過程若出錯，生物的結構，形狀，大小，功能，就出現異常，在人類，就是「先天性缺損」。在新生兒約有3％會有主要的先天性缺損，如果包含比較輕微的先天性缺損，則可達14％。其原因包括，染色體異常，單基因異常，而以多因素異常居大宗，也就是基因和環境交互作用所致。
目前，由於產前診斷科技的發展和普及，許多先天性缺損在產前就可發現。原則上若是出生後可以治療的，可在出生後給予適當的治療，若是不能治療的，可以選擇中止姙娠。
本講將介紹台灣的先天性缺損狀況及產前診斷的發展。
講座時間：2016年10月15日（六） 14:00
講座地點：臺灣大學思亮館國際會議廳（同步網路直播）
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Ole Christensen: DTU: Mathematics 4 Real Analysis (Denmark Technical University)

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source: DTUbroadcast    2013年2月6日
01325: Mathematics 4 Real Analysis
Class materials at Denmark Technical University: http://www2.mat.dtu.dk/education/01325/

Normed Vector Spaces Part 1 51:54
Normed Vector Spaces Part 2 51:38
Banach Spaces part 1 48:52
Banach Spaces part 2 52:21
Hilbert Spaces part 1 50:18
Hilbert Spaces part 2 55:55
Adjoint Operator Part 1 43:08
Adjoint Operator Part 2 54:35
Lp Spaces on the real line 50:59
Lp Spaces On The Real Line part 2 50:49
More On Lp And L2 Spaces Part 1 48:00
More On Lp And L2 Spaces Part 2 55:37
More On Operators On L2 Part 1 52:34
Orthonormal Bases Vs Fourier Series Part 2 46:37
Approximation Theory Part 1 48:32
Approximation Theory Part 2 53:28
The Fourier Transform Part 1 47:42
The Fourier Transform Part 2 50:20
Fourier Transform And Wavelets Part 1 47:32
The Fourier Transform And Wavelets Part 2 51:09
Wavelets And Multiresolution Analysis Part 1 51:54
Wavelets And Multiresolution Analysis Part 2 54:10
Wavelets And B-Splines Part 1 43:50
Wavelets And B-Splines Part 2 59:57
Special Functions And Diff. Equation Course Evaluation 1:16:49

Are preservatives bad for you? - Eleanor Nelsen

source: TED-Ed     2016年11月8日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/are-preserv...
Food doesn’t last. In days, sometimes hours, bread goes moldy, apple slices turn brown, and bacteria multiply in mayonnaise. But you can find all of these foods out on the shelf at the grocery store — hopefully unspoiled -- thanks to preservatives. But what exactly are preservatives? How do they help keep food edible? And are they safe? Eleanor Nelsen investigates.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelsen, animation by Compote Collective.

迴歸分析--黃冠華 / 交大

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source: NCTU OCW   2016年10月27日
The goals of this course are to introduce regression analysis for continuous and discrete data. Topics include simple and multiple linear regressions, inferences for regression coefficients, confounding and interaction, regression diagnostics, logistic regressions, Poisson regressions, and generalized linear models.
The course consists of lectures and laboratory sessions. The lectures are given on Tuesday 9:00-11:00. The lectures will primarily review and reinforce major issues. There is a laboratory session on Tuesday 11:10-12:00. The laboratory exercise will be distributed prior to each class, and students are expected to read each lab exercise at home. Each student will be assigned to a lab group and discuss the exercise with group members in the lab. At the end of the lab, there will be a seminar-type discussion. Each group is required to hand in a write-up of laboratory problems.
The course uses the R software for statistical computing. Students are expected to be familiar with the usage of the software.
本課程是由交通大學統計學研究所提供。
課程資訊：http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/course_detail....
更多課程歡迎瀏覽交大開放式課程網站：http://ocw.nctu.edu.tw/

Lec 01 Introduction 10:10
Lec 02 A review of basic statistical concepts 57:23
Lec 03 Measures of association with emphasis on the difference of means 25:24
Lec 04 Basics of linear regression analysis 2:02:21
Lec 05 同學報告 10:13
Lec 06 Correlation 1:04:49
Lec 07 同學報告 14:05
Lec 08 Analysis of variance (ANOVA) table and prediction of y 48:40
Lec 09 Basics of multiple linear regression 45:40
Lec 10 同學報告 12:16
Lec 11 Hypothesis testing in multiple regression 50:06
Lec 12 Polynomial terms and dummy variables 46:43
Lec 13 同學報告 16:47
Lec 14 Interaction and confounding 54:10
Lec 15 補充: Confounding and interaction in epidemiology 45:14
Lec 16 同學報告 18:29
Lec 17 Regression diagnosis 1:23:04
Lec 18 Variable selection and model building 54:31
Lec 19 同學報告 7:00
Lec 20 同學報告 13:43
Lec 21 Relative risk, odds ratio and significance testing for 2*2 tables 1:43:34
Lec 22 Introduction to logistic regression 1:05:54
Lec 23 同學報告 22:51
Lec 24 Logistic regression for contingency tables 47:54
Lec 25 Goodness-of-t for logistic regression 45:55
Lec 26 同學報告 12:01
Lec 27 Logistic regression for case-control data and conditional logistic regression 1:10:09
Lec 28 同學報告 8:55
Lec 29 Analysis of polytomous data 1:06:00
Lec 30 同學報告 5:18
Lec 31 Poisson regression and log-linear model 1:13:54
Lec 32 同學報告 17:08
Lec 33 Generalized linear models 42:05
Lec 34 同學報告 10:54

Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching: A Round Table with Mychal Denzel Smith

source: The New School    2016年9月22日
Join Nation Institute Knobler fellow and New York Times bestseller Mychal Denzel Smith at The New School (http://www.newschool.edu) for a panel discussion on the themes of his new book: How do you learn to be a black man in America? This is the question at the heart of the Nation writer’s celebrated new memoir, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education.
​With power and poignancy, Smith chronicles his own personal and political education in America​, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that has denied his humanity. Smith will moderate a roundtable discussion of the book's themes with activists Alexis Coe, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, and Rembert Browne.
This event is co-sponsored by The Nation Institute, Nation Books, and The New School.
Location: The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm