This book was written to accompany the Tufts University introductory engineering course, "Engineering in the Kitchen". The book covers foundational topics in the course, including circuit analysis, Python programming, microcontroller I/O using MicroPython, and computer networking.

Engineering principles of nuclear reactors, emphasizing power reactors. Topics include power plant thermodynamics, reactor heat generation and removal (single-phase as well as two-phase coolant flow and heat transfer), structural mechanics, and engineering considerations in reactor design.

In this course, students explore the engineering design of nuclear power plants using the basic principles of reactor physics, thermodynamics, fluid flow and heat transfer. Topics include reactor designs, thermal analysis of nuclear fuel, reactor coolant flow and heat transfer, power conversion cycles, nuclear safety, and reactor dynamic behavior.

In the course “Enhancing collaboration in flood disaster risk management“ you will be provided with the practical tools and background knowledge to improve multi-stakeholder exchange, cooperation and collaboration in the specific area that you’re working in. This way, you can contribute to making flood disaster risk management more effective and create a meaningful impact on your environment.

This course is divided into a welcoming section and three content blocks with various chapters. In each of the content blocks, you will find educative material in video or text format, reflective questions to test your knowledge plus a PDF that summarizes the lessons learned for download. You can also download all of the course content as one PDF in eBook format.

We are looking forward to guide you through the course and provide you with the theoretical background, tools and knowledge that you need in order to involve stakeholders effectively and therefore improve the efficiency of flood disaster risk management in the environment you’re working in.

Ensembl offers integrated genome, variation, gene regulation and comparative genomics data on an open access web browser platform. This course includes an introduction to Ensembl, what kind of data Ensembl has, and how to browse and export the data.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Navigate Ensembl using the web browser platform
Access main data types in Ensembl: genomes, genes, genetic variation, regulatory features and comparative genomics
Annotate your own variant data with the VEP
Mine Ensembl data using BioMart
Display your own data in Ensembl

This course focuses on genomes on the Ensembl website at www.ensembl.org. It provides a quick beginner's guide to the overall structure of the Ensembl genome browser.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Explain what Ensembl is and where the data come from
Access and navigate the Ensembl homepage
Search the Ensembl browser with a gene, location (a region of a genome), or variant of interest
Explore a region on a genome, a gene and a transcript
Determine where to view gene trees, sequence variation, and regions involved in gene regulation in Ensembl
View a sequence for a gene, protein, or a genome of interest
Determine how genes are annotated
Assess the different ways the data are presented in Ensembl (including the gene, location, transcript and variation tabs)
Export Ensembl data quickly and easily with the browser and BioMart

Ensembl runs API workshops worldwide, and here we have made one available online. You will find a collection of video lectures from the 'Ensembl API workshop' that took place at EMBL-EBI 22nd-24th May 2013, using Ensembl version 71. The exercises associated with the workshop are included to carry out at your leisure.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Describe how data are organised in the Ensembl database
Describe how Ensembl assigns objects and methods
Navigate the API Doxygen documentation
Write Perl scripts that query the Ensembl database for various different kinds of data

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Ensembl Genomes, the non-chordate genome browser.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Describe what Ensembl Genomes is and how it can help you to access and analyse genome-scale data
Recall where to find out more about the Ensembl Genomes resource

This course provides a very short introduction to the Ensembl website for browsing chordate genomes.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Outline Ensembl and what you can do with the resource
Know where to find out more about Ensembl

The Ensembl REST API provides language-agnostic programmatic access to genomic data in the Ensembl database. This course uses Jupyter Notebooks hosted by Google Colab to walk you through the APIs and practise writing scripts to access these data. A video provides a brief overview of the REST API, endpoints and instructions on working with the Jupyter notebooks.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Describe the data types accessible through the Ensembl REST API
Describe the methods in the Ensembl REST API
Navigate the Ensembl REST API documentation to find available methods
Write scripts to access data via the Ensembl REST API

“Ensinando Permacultura” é uma síntese da experiência de ensino do Núcleo de Estudos em Permacultura da UFSC (NEPerma/UFSC) que procura transmitir a “cultura de permanência” de forma plural, com embasamento científico, transpassando diversas temáticas para possibilitar uma melhor compreensão de como planejar espaços geográficos sustentáveis de forma sistêmica. Esta obra busca também ultrapassar os limites da academia, expandir e popularizar o ensino de Permacultura de acordo com os preceitos de seu idealizador, Bill Mollison. Os autores esperam, assim, contribuir para o conhecimento de uma forma de viver mais harmônica com o planeta.

Pharo is a clean, innovative, open-source, live-programming environment.

Enterprise Pharo is the third volume of a series of book covering Pharo and its community. Whereas the first volume Pharo by Example is intended for newcomers and the second volume Deep into Pharo covers deep topics of Pharo, this third volume covers libraries and frameworks for enterprises, and in particular those doing web development.

Are you an entrepreneur, or do you have a passion for building your own technology startup? This course will help and encourage you to start a successful technology-based venture.

If you always wanted to become an entrepreneur, or if you are simply interested in putting a new technology to innovative use, this course is for you.

This course helps you understand the process of entrepreneurship from a technology-oriented background.

The course is made up of modules that are presented by experts in the field of entrepreneurship and technology. Modules include:

Team Building
Opportunity Recognition
Financing
Customer Acquisition

This course will introduce you to entrepreneurship for global challenges in emerging markets. You will get to know other like-minded entrepreneurs around you, and discover how institutions in your target region are working on innovation and entrepreneurship.

As an entrepreneur in an emerging market, you may be faced with many challenges that need to be solved. These might include scarcity of fossil fuels, climate change or water, food and health security. This Delft University of Technology course will provide you with examples from partner universities and affiliated entrepreneurs in emerging markets which explain the opportunities and obstacles that they faced as they established themselves and created value.

You will acquire a set of practical tools which will enable you to discover the opportunities in your own environment and how these can be used to make an actual change! You will learn how to rethink your value proposition with your own case study, or with one we provide.

After the course, you will be able to develop your value proposition more quickly by getting to know your customers and partners better and understand local values and institutions.

Increasingly volatile climate and weather; vulnerable drinking water supplies; shrinking wildlife habitats; widespread deforestation due to energy and food production. These are examples of environmental challenges that are of critical importance in our world, both in far away places and close to home, and are particularly well suited to inquiry using geographic information systems. In GEOG 487 you will explore topics like these and learn about data and spatial analysis techniques commonly employed in environmental applications. After taking this course you will be equipped with relevant analytical approaches and tools that you can readily apply to your own environmental contexts.

Short Description:
This college-level open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues from a biological perspective.

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This open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues from a biological perspective. The text is designed for an introductory-level college science course or as a course for non-science majors. Topics include the fundamentals of ecology, biodiversity, pollution, climate change, food production, and human population growth and the biological concepts that allow a student to understand the large challenges facing our society.

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This college-level open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues from a biological perspective. Environmental Biology is a free open textbook that enables students to develop a nuanced understanding of today’s most pressing environmental issues. This text helps students grasp the scientific foundation of environmental topics so they can better understand the world around them and their impact upon it. This book is a collaboration between various authors and organizations that are committed to providing students with high quality and affordable textbooks.

Taking into consideration the outstanding importance of studying and applying the biological means to remove or mitigate the harmful effects of global pollution on the natural environment, as direct consequences of quantitative expansion and qualitative diversification of persistent and hazardous contaminants, the present book provides useful information regarding New Approaches and Prospective Applications in Environmental Biotechnology. This volume contains twelve chapters divided in the following three parts: biotechnology for conversion of organic wastes, biodegradation of hazardous contaminants and, finally, biotechnological procedures for environmental protection. Each chapter provides detailed information regarding scientific experiments that were carried out in different parts of the world to test different procedures and methods designed to remove or mitigate the impact of hazardous pollutants on environment. The book is addressed to researchers and students with specialties in biotechnology, bioengineering, ecotoxicology, environmental engineering and all those readers who are interested to improve their knowledge in order to keep the Earth healthy.

Students learn about the wonderful and fascinating country of China, and its environmental challenges that require engineering solutions, many in the form of increased energy efficiency, the incorporation of renewable energy, and new engineering developments for urban and rural areas. China is fast becoming an extremely influential factor in our world today, and will likely have a large role in shaping the decades ahead. China is the world's largest energy consumer and the largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions, leading engineers and scientists to be concerned about the role these emissions play in rural and urban public and environmental health, as well as in global climate change. Through exploring some sources of air pollution, appropriate housing for different climate zones, and the types of renewable energy, the lessons and activities of this unit present ways that engineers are helping people in China, using an approach to cleaner, smarter, healthier and more-efficient ways of living that apply to people wherever they live.

In this unit, students explore the various roles of environmental engineers, including: environmental cleanup, water quality, groundwater resources, surface water and groundwater flow, water contamination, waste disposal and air pollution. Specifically, students learn about the factors that affect water quality and the conditions that enable different animals and plants to survive in their environments. Next, students learn about groundwater and how environmental engineers study groundwater to predict the distribution of surface pollution. Students also learn how water flows through the ground, what an aquifer is and what soil properties are used to predict groundwater flow. Additionally, students discover that the water they drink everyday comes from many different sources, including surface water and groundwater. They investigate possible scenarios of drinking water contamination and how contaminants can negatively affect the organisms that come in contact with them. Students learn about the three most common methods of waste disposal and how environmental engineers continue to develop technologies to dispose of trash. Lastly, students learn what causes air pollution and how to investigate the different pollutants that exist, such as toxic gases and particulate matter. Also, they investigate the technologies developed by engineers to reduce air pollution.