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Business Models for Innovative Care for Older People
Aging has been coined as one of the major societal challenges. The fact that we simply live longer, is in itself not a problem but rather a triumph. However, this unprecedented demographic change significantly affects individual life histories through an increased number of e.g. lifestyle related chronic diseases. These extra life years, also have a massive imprint on the organization of welfare institutions and the financial sustainability of the welfare system. This course will introduce you to healthcare innovation within the field of healthy living and active aging.
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12 hours
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English
Interest Rate Models
This course gives you an easy introduction to interest rates and related contracts. These include the LIBOR, bonds, forward rate agreements, swaps, interest rate futures, caps, floors, and swaptions. We will learn how to apply the basic tools duration and convexity for managing the interest rate risk of a bond portfolio. We will gain practice in estimating the term structure from market data. We will learn the basic facts from stochastic calculus that will enable you to engineer a large variety of stochastic interest rate models.
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30 hours
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English
Create Interactive Graphs in Tableau
Tableau is widely recognized as one of the premier data visualization software programs.
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3 hours
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English
SOLID Programming: Open-Closed Principle in Unity
Programming of any kind, including in game-development, can get complicated as the size and scope of a project increase.
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2 hours
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English
Data Science Ethics
What are the ethical considerations regarding the privacy and control of consumer information and big data, especially in the aftermath of recent large-scale data breaches? This course provides a framework to analyze these concerns as you examine the ethical and privacy implications of collecting and managing big data. Explore the broader impact of the data science field on modern society and the principles of fairness, accountability and transparency as you gain a deeper understanding of the importance of a shared set of ethical values.
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15 hours
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English
Automate Blog Advertisements with Zapier
Zapier is the industry leader in task automation and gives users the ability to not only organize but to automate social media posting. By the end of this project, you will be able to set up an account with Zapier. You will learn how to connect your blog site to Zapier and then send out automated social media messages to your owned social media accounts. This is a great tool to use if you are blogging once a week or less and want to maximize your time spent on other tasks. Blogging is one of the most recognized ways of improving traffic to websites.
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2 hours
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English
Dive Into Ansible - Beginner to Expert in Ansible - DevOps
Docker Captain, CNCF Ambassador and Industry Veteran James Spurin (25+ Years experience in Technology with a career spanning Engineering, Development and Senior Management at Goldman Sachs, Dell EMC and Virgin Internet) brings you the most concise Ansible learning resource available. Taking you from Beginner to Advanced in one course! Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems interrelate, rather than just managing one system at a time.
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8 hours
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English
Physics 102 - AC Circuits and Maxwell's Equations
This fourth course serves as an introduction to the physics of electricity and magnetism. Upon completion, learners will understand how mathematical laws and conservation principles describe fields and how these fields are related to electrical circuits. Learners will gain experience in solving physics problems with tools such as graphical analysis, algebra, vector analysis, and calculus. This fourth course covers AC circuits, Impedance, and Magnetism.
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18 hours
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English
Intro to Analytic Thinking, Data Science, and Data Mining
Welcome to Introduction to Analytic Thinking, Data Science, and Data Mining. In this course, we will begin with an exploration of the field and profession of data science with a focus on the skills and ethical considerations required when working with data. We will review the types of business problems data science can solve and discuss the application of the CRISP-DM process to data mining efforts.
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7 hours
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English
Continuous Delivery and Managing Builds with Azure DevOps
This Guided Project is for IT professionals who want to raise the quality of their software products to a higher level by totally automating their software applications' build, test and packaging processes. In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will learn how to use Azure DevOps Services to safely store your applications' code in a source control and how to set up build pipelines and branch policies to automate packaging of your products and preparing them for deployment. Since this project uses Azure DevOps Services, you will need access to an Azure DevOps account.
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3 hours
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English
Business Case Analysis
The Capstone project is the culmination of your journey through the Business English for Non-Native Speakers specialization. It is aimed at applying the written and spoken skills that you have gained to an authentic business situation. You will be able to choose a business case provided by HKUST, or use an example from your own work experience and: (1) prepare an online video presentation (approx. ½ hour) that analyses the case and provides recommendations, and (2) prepare a business recommendation report to coincide with the presentation (approx. 2,000 words).
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20 hours
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English
Data Science Tutorial
Start learning Data science with the W3Schools course. Data Science is about data gathering, analysis and decision-making. Data Science is about finding patterns in data, through analysis, and make future predictions. This is a structured and interactive version of the W3Schools Data science Tutorial. The course is self-paced with text based modules, practical interactive examples and exercises to check your understanding as you progress. W3schools is the world's largest web developer learning site. Start learning with our proven tutorials used by millions of learners!
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7 hours
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English
Predict Baby Weight with TensorFlow on AI Platform
In this lab you train, evaluate, and deploy a machine learning model to predict a baby’s weight. You then send requests to the model to make online predictions. This lab is part of a series of labs on processing scientific data.
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2 hours
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English
Networking in Google Cloud: Defining and Implementing Networks
This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of networking options on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy Google Cloud networking technologies, such as Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks, subnets and firewalls. The course also covers access control to networks, sharing networks and load balancing.
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8 hours
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English
International Law in Action: A Guide to the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague
International Law in Action explains the functions of each international court and tribunal present in The Hague, and it looks at how these institutions address contemporary problems. On the basis of selected cases, and through interviews with judges and lawyers, you will explore the role of these courts and tribunals and their potential to contribute to global justice. The first module of the course will investigate how judicial settlement is different from other more political forms of dispute settlement, such as negotiation and mediation.
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18 hours
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English
Enhance your Writing with Adjective Clauses
Do you have a hard time describing things, people, and places in English? This course will show you how to be more descriptive in your writing by incorporating adjective clauses in complex sentences. You will begin each course learning some basic information about adjective clauses. Then, we’ll get into the specifics of how to identify and use adjective clauses and the pronouns that begin them. In the last part of the course, you’ll demonstrate what you’ve learned by writing a paragraph.
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13 hours
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English
AstroTech: The Science and Technology behind Astronomical Discovery
"How do they know that?" Modern astronomy has made some astonishing discoveries - how stars burn and how black holes form; galaxies from the edge of the universe and killer rocks right next door; where the elements come from and how the expanding universe is accelerating. But how do we know all that? The truth is that astronomy would be impossible without technology, and every advance in astronomy is really an advance in technology. But the technology by itself is not enough.
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6 hours
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English
Seismology to Earthquake Engineering
This course ranges from the earth structure, the generation of earthquakes and seismic waves by faults to the seismic response of soils, foundations and structures as well as seismic risk. It is consequently aimed at undergraduates, graduates and professionals interested in engineering seismology, earthquake engineering or seismic risk.
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15 hours
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English
Public Health Perspectives on Sustainable Diets
What we eat and how we produce that food have significant effects on human health and the sustainability of our planet. But what is a ‘sustainable’ diet? A sustainable diet, as defined by the FAO, promotes health and well-being and provides food security for the present population while sustaining human and natural resources for future generations. This short course looks at the urgent need to address the sustainability of our food systems, including better understanding the complex relationship between diet and climate change.
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7 hours
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English
Build a no-code customer support Telegram chatbot with Azure
In this guided project, we will use Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services to build an AI-powered customer support chatbot that can converse with your customers and solve their queries.
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2 hours
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English
Getting Started with AWS DevOps
Getting Started with AWS DevOps Course is the first course of the Exam Prep: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Specialization. This course is designed to describe the basics of AWS DevOps using multiple AWS services. This course includes an overview of Compute, Management & Governance, and Serverless related AWS services. This course is basically divided into three modules and each module is further segmented by Lessons and Video Lectures. This course facilitates learners with approximately 3:00-3:30 Hours of Video lectures that provide both Theory and Hands-On knowledge.
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6 hours
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English
Moralities of Everyday Life
How can we explain kindness and cruelty? Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Why do people so often disagree about moral issues? This course explores the psychological foundations of our moral lives.
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24 hours
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English
Social Services for Families, Seniors and Those with Disabilities
Course 4 discusses four populations: families, poor families, people with disabilities, and people as they age. This course addresses issues of power, oppression, and white supremacy. -The first module identifies the needs of children and the role of the state in child development. We will explore changes in the family and the resulting debates about how to best support families and child development.
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11 hours
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Create Customer Support Data with Microsoft Excel
By the end of this project, you will create a free account on Microsoft 365, get access to Microsoft Excel, and create a table with customer data. You will edit and format the data, hide sensitive information, sort, and filter data. Your new skills will help you manage your customer relations and be more efficient.
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3 hours
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Using Date and Time Functions in Excel
By the end of this project you will be able to use 15 practical date & time functions in Excel, and have a better understanding of their use. You’ll learn the basic use of the function, an example formula for the function, and some alternative ways to use the function by adding or combining to the formula. I will guide you step-by-step, explaining every part of the formula and how it achieves the desired calculation.
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3 hours
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English