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Pronunciation is the key to successful communication in French. Improve your speech, comprehension and pronunciation in this course, which is conducted entirely in French. You'll get personalized exercises that address intonation, rhythm, vowels, consonants, the liaison, the unstable "e" and many other specialized sounds. We'll also identify the differences in sound and rhythm between standard international and standard Québécois French. Improve your command of the complex sounds used in French. Develop a more authentic cadence. Improve the rhythm of your speech. Deepen your comprehension. Be better understood.

Gain a university level understanding of cellular biochemical concepts. You'll learn how proteins are the action molecules of the body, how fat burns in metabolic pathways when you exercise, and how the genetic information stored in your DNA makes you unique.  Proteins and Enzymes: nature of bonds in molecules characteristics of water, the universal solvent, and pH structures and nature of amino acids, building blocks of proteins levels of protein structure and protein 3-dimensional shape nature of enzyme catalyzed reactions, their regulation, inhibition and mechanisms hemoglobin, the oxygen transport protein characteristics of carbohydrates found in nature structures and nature of fatty acids and lipids found in biological membranes structure and functions of membrane proteins: receptors, channels and pumps Metabolism: basic concepts of metabolism and bioenergetics how glucose fuels running via the glycolysis pathway and mitochondrial oxidation building glycogen (polyglucose) reserves following meals how glucose is made during prolonged exercise -how fatty acids serve as fuels in distance running fat catabolism gone awry: diabetes and ketone bodies eicosanoids and the biochemistry of inflammation how fatty acids, phospholipids and cholesterol are made amino acid and nucleotide metabolism Nucleic Acids and Biological Information Flow: structures of the information molecules DNA and RNA DNA replication in cell division DNA Repair and Recombination -RNA synthesis tRNA and mRNA processing genetic code and protein synthesis recombinant DNA technology

If you want to create comics or graphic novels, bring your passion to this practical workshop. Graphic novelist experts will teach you the ropes, introduce you to the marketplace and provide a supportive space in which to develop your ideas. You'll discover a diverse new world of sequential storytelling and a community of like-minded writers. The course supports all genres, including fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Prominent industry guests will give their perspectives and take your questions. Understand the theoretical and practical structure of comics and graphic novels. Use new techniques and skills to turn your ideas into graphic works. Benefit from the advice of professional artists, editors, designers and other industry guests.

Lean Six Sigma is a problem solving methodology that businesses use to deliver value for customers, generate higher returns for shareholders and create an engaged workplace for employees. This hands-on course covers the more advanced tools of Lean Six Sigma.  It describes the use of statistical techniques to identify projects more effectively, conduct baseline analysis and managing process improvement and process control. The course also covers techniques  for data collection, and quantifying data measurement system errors, analyzing process variation, statistical hypothesis testing and designing experiments to improve processes. How to collect good quality data Analyse baseline processes and calculate process capability Create and apply statistical hypothesis tests to identify cause and effect Create and apply control charts to monitor and manage processes.

The course teaches you why business process management (BPM) is so important to organizations and how to use it to understand the strengths and weaknesses of existing business strategies and processes and the links between them. You'll use mapping, basic measurements and critical-thinking approaches and learn other ways to analyze, redesign, improve and document business processes. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of existing business strategies and processes and the links between them. Know why business process management (BPM) is so important to organizations. Use BPM to analyze, redesign, improve and document business processes. Use the Association of Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP) Common Body of Knowledge v4.0 as a reference for BPM activities.

Managing or improving processes to meet business needs and objectives requires an understanding of process metrics, including what drives them and how to analyze them, to uncover the often underappreciated opportunities for improvement available in all processes. But managing processes involves much more than crunching the numbers: it’s also about recognizing the capacity of your people to do the work and what motivates them to do it well. This course provides a thorough and unified introduction to both the power of metrics and the influence of people on process performance. Streamline and optimize subpar processes to achieve improved customer service at lower cost. Measure an organization’s capacity to serve customers and develop strategies to increase it at low or no cost. Use process simulation as an aid to diagnose and overcome process problems. Examine the human factors that drive and limit process performance, and use this understanding to increase receptiveness to process change. Manage the “people dimension” of processes.

Most process improvement initiatives fail not because of technical issues but because of the so-called soft issues: organization, structure, culture and human and political aspects. This course gives you a framework to analyze why an initiative fails, learn from the experience and recommend change to key decision-makers. You'll learn about factors that often undermine initiatives, including complexity, lack of consensus for action, social challenges and resistance. Diagnose organizational culture and assess readiness for change. Educate and influence key decision-makers and stakeholders to lead change more effectively. Manage intangible factors that often undermine process improvement projects. Organize and execute a large-scale process improvement project within the service industry and the business process sector. Adapt and sustain business processes for changing environments and client needs.

What is the difference between a historian’s grasp of the events of the past and the imaginative leap the writer must take to recreate it? While the historian must be scrupulously faithful to what is the case, the artist must cultivate a sympathetic imagination for the past. This is all about the sensory details as opposed to the overview—the sights, sounds, smells that make up a lived reality. How do you write convincing dialogue that is neither jarringly contemporary nor self-consciously archaic? How does a writer depart from the historically correct to find a story worth telling? How does a writer create characters that feel like flesh-and-blood, while observing the specificities and constraints of the time in which the story is set? Often what feels most “real” is what has been freely invented, and this course will enable the participants to begin the work of thinking like novelists as they approach history, and to create their own fictional worlds. Understand the unique process of creating historical fiction. Apply these techniques to your own work.

Selecting strong stocks based on fundamental data is the first step in building a successful portfolio. This course uses case studies, discussions and presentations to teach you how to find undervalued companies based on their estimated intrinsic values. You'll learn how to estimate a stock's target price and draft an equity research report, and study strategies used by legends such as Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham. The course will draw on research to build a database of potential investment picks. Identify undervalued (fundamentally strong) and overvalued (fundamentally weak) companies based on their estimated intrinsic values. Apply value-investing strategies and successful investment habits to your stock portfolio. Calculate the intrinsic value of a stock using absolute valuation and relative valuation models. Develop and present a professional equity-research report for your favourite stock.

This course gives you an overview of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and its role in implementing an organization’s strategy.  You'll learn about aligning business and IT and how to use principles, standards, patterns and best practices. Explore the most used EA methodologies, the fundamentals in business, technology and security and the interrelationships between domains. You'll also learn how to measure EA benefits, convey them to key stakeholders and develop architectural and governance skills that follow key frameworks used in the industry (e.g. TOGAF) and use an architectural language (e.g. Archimate). Understand how Enterprise Architecture (EA) helps deliver the organization's vision. Show how EA can influence the overall performance of the organization and affect its competitive advantage. Explain the relationships between business, application, data, technology and security aspects. Advocate good EA practices and appropriate governance. Evaluate the current state of an organization versus its stated vision and goals. Understand the fundamentals about using a disciplined, comprehensive methodology as well as take an agile approach. Explain how an architectural language like Archimate in conjunction with TOGAF. Evaluate the results of an Enterprise Architecture practice.