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for October 27, 2009

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October 27, 2009

12:10 p.m. - 1 p.m. Peak Oil: When Will It Happen, or Has It Happened?

Peter McCabe will address the theory of peak oil, technical issues surrounding its analysis, nongeological controls of oil supply and demand, and future scenarios of petroleum production and consumption.

1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. NEW Search System for Searching the Agricultural Literature

Learn how to search efficiently in the !NEW! OvidSP version of the three core agricultural databases: CAB Abstracts, Agricola, and Food Sciences and Technology Abstracts. The unique scope and content of each database will be reviewed. Researchers in the farm animal (including veterinary), ...

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Petroleum in the Arctic: Geology, Climate and National Interests

A seminar based on the results of and responses to a recently published study of oil and gas in the highest northern latitudes

4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Improve Efficiency Searching Animal and Human Health Information

Database searching strategies covered may include: using database thesauri, specialized indices, and search history features; using the wildcard and limits; and topic/keyword, title and author searching. Current awareness or update/alert services and how to use UC-eLinks may also be discussed. ...

4:10 p.m. - 6 p.m. Photography and Ontology

Photography has two distinctly appealing properties that stake their claims on universality. On the one had, photography has mechanically-enhanced artistic powers: it can capture a moment, orchestrate an intricate arrangement, or populate an empty frame in the blink of an eye. We might call this ...

7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Sex-in-Change: Configurations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary ...

A public lecture by Dr. Afsaneh Najmabadi