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Récolte forestière au Québec (album des vidéos)

Récolte forestière au Québec (album des vidéos)

Le site Web Récolte forestière au Québec a pour objectif principal de montrer les procédés de récolte des arbres ainsi que la machinerie forestière utilisés au Québec. Ce site s'adresse plus précisément aux étudiants et étudiantes du domaine forestier, qu'ils suivent des cours techniques ou universitaires. Il est également pertinent pour les intervenants forestiers tant de la forêt publique que privée ainsi que pour toute personne s'intéressant aux pratiques forestières au Québec.

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Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Audio

Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Audio

Spring 2011 - UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture Series is an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at the university, in bite-size chunks. Speakers are drawn from across UCL and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lectures require no pre-booking, are free to attend and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Virtual Reality in Vision Research - Audio

Virtual Reality in Vision Research - Audio

Immersive virtual reality is the research tool those of us who study human perception and action have been waiting for, because it enables us to perform rigorous experimental studies of natural behaviour. First off, it allows us to easily manipulate realistic visual environments while collecting continuous measures of ongoing behaviour. But its greater potential lies in the ability to test psychological theories by manipulating the world in impossible ways. I will describe several studies in which we break the laws of physics and optics to investigate some interesting visual-motor control problems: (a) How do baseball players catch a fly ball? (Manipulate gravity) (b) How do people guide locomotion? (Manipulate the optics) (c) What information is used for path integration? (Manipulate the visual-motor gain) (d) How can you tell if you're being stalked? And is a zig-zag path the best escape? (Manipulate the behavior of virtual agents) William Warren is Chancellor's Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. He earned an undergraduate degree at Hampshire College (1976) and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Connecticut (1982). He uses virtual reality techniques to study the visual control of human locomotion and navigation, with funding from NIH and NSF. Warren is author of over 85 research articles and chapters, the editor of two volumes, and the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship, an NIH Research Career Development Award, and Brown's Elizabeth Leduc Teaching Award for Excellence in the Life Sciences.

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Sustainable Cities Launch - Video

Sustainable Cities Launch - Video

UCL formally launched its Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities – a programme to rally the university’s breadth of expertise in service of urban sustainability – at an evening event on 8 July 2009. Hundreds of invited guests – including policymakers and practitioners from government bodies and non-governmental organisations, architectural practices and engineering firms – were welcomed by UCL President and Provost Professor Malcolm Grant.

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