Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: cortico-striatal alterations and beyond
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a disabling condition affecting between 1.5-3% of the world population. Despite being a disorder comparatively less studied...
From lactide to Polylactide, mechanisms and catalysts
Synthesis of lactide, bio-derived resources, synthesis of PLA, typical catalysts, coordination-insertion mechanism, activated monomer mechanism, kinetics, singe-site catalysts, advantages and disadvantages of...
The Role Of The State In Development And Innovation
In this lecture, Professor Kartel, based on the main ideas of his book “How do make an entrepreneurial state. Why innovation needs...
International Patent System: Patent Process and Requirements
During this lecture, participants will delve into the intricacies of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and its procedures for international patent applications....
Basics of Derivatives
A derivative is a financial instrument whose value is derived from changes in the value of an underlying item, such as other...
Introduction To Statistical Learning And Applications To Neuroscience
This is the third lecture from the series of lectures delivered by the group leader at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience....
Principles of Agricultural Price, Policy and Trade Analysis
The lecture will introduce the main reasons for government intervention in food and agricultural markets and the policy instruments used. Examples of...
Dynamics on complex networks
The lecture focuses on the study of dynamical processes taking place on complex networks. Students will learn about the spreading of diseases,...
How to turn a human into a fly
The genetic information of a human cell, its genome, is densely packed into 23 pairs of chromosomes taking two meters of DNA...
Clustering And Dimensionality Reduction In Neuroscience
This is the last, fourth, lecture in a series of lectures on neural data analysis. In this lecture Soledad explains the topics...
Bronze Age as the First World-System
In the 21st century B.C. global trade finally took off. Global, insofar it extended from Scandinavia to the Indus, from the Urals to...
User Experience Design and Affordances
Creating products that customers will actually use requires understanding the psychology of usability. This lecture introduces concepts from design psychology and human...
Creating The Next-Generation Risk Management Framework
This lecture will examine the issues around the development of strategic risk and crisis management frameworks and capabilities that are appropriate to...
Patent Enforcement
In this lecture, attendees will explore the strategic utilization of patents as tools to safeguard market share. Key topics include understanding claim...
Discovery of New Nanomaterials – Tiny Flakes that Define the Future of Technology
Discovery of new materials provides moments of inspiration and enables new technologies. Two-dimensional nanosheets, such as graphene, boron nitride, and dozens more,...
Risk and Safety Concerns in Deep Networks
In recent years, deep networks have demonstrated their powerful capabilities, often outperforming human experts, such as AlphaGO. Many have been deployed to...
