This video discusses the revolution in military affairs brought about by new technologies, particularly in the United States military. It highlights the advancements in smart munitions, information technology, and precision-guided bombs,...

Part 2 of the series, Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits the legendary Seven Seeds Farm and its founder, Don Tipping, discussing Don's seed breeding efforts, philosophy, and his successful business Siskiyou Seeds. This is a...

In financial and legal usage, defalcation may involve misappropriation of funds by a person trusted with their charge; also, the act of misappropriation, or an instance thereof.

What is Inorganic Growth in a business venture? Inorganic growth is growth from buying other businesses or opening new locations. Meanwhile, organic growth is internal growth the company sees from its operations, often measured by...

What is a Cross-Functional Team? What is a Cross-Functional Team? A cross-functional team, also known as a multidisciplinary team or interdisciplinary team, is a group of people with different functional expertise working toward a common...

What is Growth in a Startup Venture? There's an initial period of slow or no growth while the startup tries to figure out what it's doing. As the startup figures out how to make something lots of people want and how to reach those...

What does it mean for a Private Equity Firm to Exit a Business? PE firms buy an interest in a business. As an exit strategy, private equity firms use IPOs to partially or completely divest their ownership and provide liquidity to their...

Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) describes his initial confusion when trying to understand Machiavelli and other Renaissance philosophers when they spoke of what it means to be a free citizen.

What is automated machine learning, and how likely is it to put machine learning engineers out of a job?

Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University, describes how the field of psychology has historically been beset by essentialism - the notion that there are essential features or characteristics that define a psychological category - and...

Last week, Sunak passed his Windsor Framework through Parliament to address the issues created by the Northern Ireland agreement. So has the Prime Minister finally succeeded in quashing any Brexiteer rebellions on his backbenches and got...

While obesity is becoming more and more of a problem in many countries around the world, it's particularly acute in the UK. So just how bad is the situation and what's caused it? And what, if anything, can the government do to address...

Learn how to create, append and delete elements in a list in this session. Lists are immutable in Scala.
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This clip is from the chapter "Data Structures" of the series "Scala & Spark-Master Big Data with Scala and Spark".This...

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This Video Explains the Best Practices in an Integrative Negotiation

Hiring Part 2/2: This video features advice from entrepreneurs on how to effectively hire the right people for your startup. The speakers stress the importance of defining the necessary skills and values for the job, using behavioral...

In which we discuss the amazing phenomenon of chlorophyll fluorescence.

This video is a review of basic arithmetic for the purpose of solving problems on the quantitative reasoning section of the GRE revised General Test. This video covers the basics of fractions. Topic covered: division of fractions,...

Process manufacturing is a form of continuous manufacturing

In this video, the presenter discusses crude oil - what it is, how it's formed, and how it's separated into its various components through fractional distillation. The video covers the different fractions of crude oil, their properties...

Fund managers cannot possibly know what the future will bring, yet they have to commit today to holding assets that promise a return tomorrow. Such a commitment requires confidence -- confidence that is hard to find in the face of...

Ha-Joon Chang is a faculty member in the department of Political Economy of Development, University of Cambridge and a speaker at INET's Conference at Bretton Woods on April 10th, 2011<br/>

What are Business Entities?

Rarely have women in history played a more deliciously mysterious role than that of the 600 years of the Ottoman Empire, when what is modern-day Turkey and lands from the Balkans to Syria sat at the center of a great Empire. These were...