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ISC Paris Summer 2015: Luxury Products Management

In Paris, city of light and world capital of the Luxury industry, you will strengthen your skills and competencies to understand a sector based on values such as modernity and tradition, innovation and know-how. You will be able to answer the demand of the new market that is emerging from the

Global Health & Human Rights

Global Health and Human Rights will focus on defining the basic concepts of human rights and their links to global health. It will explore the main issues of global health; the human rights instruments and tools of prime importance to health; the impact of globalization on the health of population;

3rd International Summer School on Intangible-Driven Economy

During the School participants will attend classes and workshops conducted by commended professors from European Universities. The School is based on an active learning model and tutorship and includes the following types of activities:%E2%80%A2 lectures and workshops of invited professors in order

Innovation, Employment and Growth in the Global Economy

The recent wave of innovation, in particular the ICT revolution, had a deep impact on countries worldwide. It also led to a reassessment of the effects which innovation has on our economies. How do innovations spread over space and time? How do they affect the global organisation of production?

Analysis of prospective studies with Stata%C2%AE

This course is designed to introduce student to the analysis of cohort studies, managing person-times, estimating counts and incidence rate ratios of both fixed and time-varying exposures and fitting count regression models. By the end of the course, the student will be familiar these epidemiogical

Tables for epidemiologists using Stata%C2%AE

This course is designed to introduce students to basic Stata commands useful in epidemiological research: descriptive statistics to estimate the incidence of a binary response and to characterize the demographic information supplied by study participants; statistical tests to identify univariate

Basics of Stata%C2%AE

This course is designed to introduce students to the basics of Stata. It will focus on the minimum set of commands everyone should know to organize their own work. Specific topics include data-management, data-reporting, graphics and basic use of do-files. By the end of this one-day course, the

Security Governance & Conflict Resolution | GSSS

The word %E2%80%98security%E2%80%99 is omnipresent in media, politics and daily conversations. But what does it actually mean? What makes one feel secure? And, more importantly, how is security organised in order to improve it and what are effective ways to deal with (violent) conflicts? In other

Introduction into Sexuality Studies | GSSS

Sexuality and gender define what it is to be human: they are at the core of our existence. But how does society define and reinforce these concepts? How do these concepts impact our relationships within society, and what analytical tools have been developed to study their role in social and

New Concepts in Energy Storage

This meeting and summer school in June - the very best time in the Baltic - is organized by Tallinn University of Technology (TUT) in cooperation with Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).Focus is on the basics and new achievements related to advanced energy

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Key Skills for Academic Study

This module runs in both sessions: June 13 - July 4, and July 4 - July 25.This course provides students with the key knowledge, skills and attitudes required to gain maximum benefit from academic studies thereby enabling them to %E2%80%9Chit the ground running%E2%80%9D from the first day of their

English for Business

This module runs in both sessions: June 13 - July 4, and July 4 - July 25.English is the key language for communication in international business. Acquisition of communicative competence and the range of skills necessary to perform in business will provide students with a competitive edge when

English for Film and Theatre

This module runs in both sessions: June 13 - July 4, and July 4 - July 25.This course will provide the language necessary to discuss and comment on films and plays in English, both socially (in conversation and in social media) and semi-professionally (e.g. as a blogger, critic, or commentator)

Photographing the City: London

This module runs in both sessions: June 13 - July 4, and July 4 - July 25. This class is concerned with an investigation of the city as represented through historical and contemporary photography. Through a series of lectures and workshops, students gain a critical perspective on the city as a

Off The Beaten Track 2015

More on: www.anthropologyfieldschool.orgCourse descriptionThe course runs for 20 days, during three editions in the summer of 2015 (see dates on the bottom of the home page). The working days of the week will be reserved for fieldwork, fieldtrips as well as individual guidance by academic experts

Summer School on Women, Peace and Security

In 2000, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325, the first in a series of six resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, which not only recognizes the disproportionate impact of armed conflict on women but also stresses the crucial importance of including women in all phases of peace

Good practices in the use of mouse models for biomedical research

The program of the PHENOMIN thematic school consists of invited speakers' talks, work sessions on selected scientific and/or methods issues, oral sessions of the attendees, poster sessions. The school will cover the different fields of mouse phenogenomics, ranging through 5 topics from

Statistical methods for population-based cancer survival analysis

The course will address the principles, methods, and application of statistical methods to studying the survival of cancer patients using data collected by population-based cancer registries. We cover central concepts, such as how to estimate and model relative survival, as well as recent

Introduction to Social and Biological Networks

Network analysis can be used to study how pathogens spread in contact networks, or how behaviors to counter illnesses diffuse in social networks. This course introduces some essential network concepts and covers the basics of the Python programming language to analyze networks and to simulate

Applied Logistic Regression

This course introduces students to the practice and application of logistic regression modeling for binary outcomes. Students will fit, evaluate, and interpret binary data models arising from epidemiological studies, clinical trials, or other application areas. Topics include assessment of