The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid pptx

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Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... should bring them back into the presentation with the beginning of the next topic. At the presentation’s end, you should 36 THE CRAFT OF SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS come back to the shallows and then examine ... became the C-portion of the syllogism and the main evidence that contributed to the awarding of the contract. Statistics are another form of l...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 18:20

... of each property in the class to check the length of the new value to see if it exceeds the maximum length of the column in the Customers table. If the length of the new value does exceed the ... you need to write code to check whether a value is valid. For the CustomerID, you simply need to check the length of the string. (Later on, you'll...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 06:17

... out to fill the basket. The innies and outies fairly fly together. I calculated all kinds of things with this theory. The first thing I calculated was the rate of disintegration of the muon and the ... you meet people. And listen to them. People will love to tell you what they do and what they know. It is especially easy, even for the shy, to go to a big boo...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:47

... must water and fer- tilize and weed. There is work to be done. But the work pays off biggest when the plants are right for the soil and micro- climate of the particular garden. Is there some ... longer go to an of- fice. I tell myself I am going to write for one hour and then stop. I set an alarm, and when it rings, I STOP—but only in theory, because I get engrossed...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... fact: Some to much of today’s research is mistaken or incomplete. Furthermore, the longer you live, the more of the “facts” in your head will be erroneous. Science keeps moving and the Todal takes the ... Thurber and his readers, so I offer you “flob,” with which to describe the movement of Slinkies, sloths, or stranded jellyfish, and thousands of other words just...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 10:15

... quiet.” “There are no others. Only the three of us.” “But?y” “I am in charge of the security brigade. I ordered the others of my command to go back to our spacecraft and wait there.” And the scientists? ... tamper with the laws of nature to suit the needs of the story. The archetype of this requirement is Tom Godwin's " ;The Cold Equations,"...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 20:20

... past the point where I paid it any mind. So I sat and waited while she finished. Finally, she pulled out the page, gathered it together with one or two others and, still not looking up, passed them ... Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Elise. Ideas into words: mastering the craft of science...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... editors needn’t start off knowing much science. Some of the best of them do, but some of the best of them don’t. They must, though, be able to learn sci- ence, be eager to wade into its complexities, ... draw me into the rare and splendid precincts of her mind. And in doing so, she’d bestow just the sorts of insights you’ll find in the pages of this book. I spea...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... license to go find something new and interesting about how the world works, and then another something, and another, and an- other. For the rest of your working life, you will get paid to talk to people ... fire together wire together,” and they mean that literally. When a group of neurons fires hard enough to activate other neurons, the re- ceiving neurons actually c...

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