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Talk, don't type: reduce RSI and increase work productivity by dictating text and controlling your PC by voice. This course, which is of particular benefit to users wishing to prevent or reduce the impact of RSI, gives an introduction to Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice activated software. At the end of the course, the student will be able to control his/her PC and produce notes and documents by voice.

Being able to negotiate well is essential for many staff at all levels within the University. Recognise your strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator and learn how to identify and examine different negotiation techniques. Start to identify and practice those principled approaches that are most likely to prove successful when negotiating an important agreement or settlement.

This course describes how patterns in text strings can be matched using regular expressions. A number of programming and scripting languages (such as Python, Perl, and Java) and other applications (such as Apache, PHP, Exim, and some text editors) support the use of regular expression patterns. Although there are some differences between the different implementations, there is also a lot in common.

The course has been modified and extended from the one previously given by Philip Hazel, the author of the PCRE ("Perl Compatible Regular Expressions") library, one of the standard and widely used regular expression libraries. The extensions are: Python and Java to the same level as Perl and PCRE; more warnings about problem areas, background usage and programming hints; and a short section on true (computer science) regular expressions and their uses when transferring data between programs.

Test course description

This workshop will cover some of the more advanced features of PowerPoint with plenty of opportunity to ask questions. The workshop is largely driven by audience questions. Please bring pen and paper as handouts are not provided.

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This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This course introduces the f2py application and the Numerical Python ("numpy") module in Python which allow Python programs to eschange data with subroutines written in Fortran.

Macromedia Dreamweaver is a powerful web creation tool that allows non-technical people to produce professional websites. This course provides a practical introduction for those that wish to use Dreamweaver to create web-pages and manage websites. It focuses on building a small website.

The course is designed to give a overview of some of the advanced features of Microsoft Word 2007, principally for staff who produce reports or long documents. This is is very similar to Word 2007: Mastering Dissertations and Theses (Level 3) which is aimed more at students so please do not book on both courses.

This course is for new users who have learnt how to get data into R already, and know how to operate basic syntax. Emphasis will be on examples of running applied analyses of regression models for continuous, binary and ordinal outcomes using standard R procedures. Half a dozen libraries will be introduced that enables importing of data and running of linear, binary, ordinal and nominal outcome regression models in R.

An introduction to the browser-based bibliography program EndNote Web and its interaction with Microsoft Word to produce documents containing formatted reference citations. EndNote Web is a “lite” version of the stand-alone EndNote program. It is free to use to members of the University as part of the UL's subscription to the Web of Knowledge database of references.

EndNote Web enables you to search for relevant books and articles and store their citation details online. You can modify your copies of these references and add some notes. The program can later work as a “helper” application with Microsoft Word so that you can add consistently laid-out citations to a document that you are creating and create a sorted bibliography at its end.

EndNote Web does not provide advanced features such as customisation of output formats (styles) , these are only available with EndNote for Bibliographies

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This course will cover using Mathematica for simple numerical programming, concentrating on linear algebra. It will indicate how it can be used for more advanced work, but not attempt to teach the details. The emphasis will be more on teaching what can be done than on teaching rules for how to do specific tasks.

Being able to negotiate well is essential for many staff at all levels within the University. Recognise your strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator and learn how to identify and examine different negotiation techniques. Start to identify and practice those principled approaches that are most likely to prove successful when negotiating an important agreement or settlement.

This two-part course will describe good-practice aspects of designing, building and running a web site, and providing information on a web server. The requirements for providing accessible web pages, utilising the site-wide search engine on your web pages and liaising with a web design company are also covered.

In addition, Helen Sargan runs an "access/site design clinic" with information providers on a one-to-one basis: please contact her directly to make an appointment.

This course is part of the Scientific Computing series.

This is a detailed overview of using parallelism for achieving more computation in the same amount of elapsed time, covering both "shared memory" and "distributed memory" designs. It will concentrate on principles rather than details, to help attendees make the right decision and proceed in the right direction. It is aimed at users with significant programming experience who need more computation power than can be delivered by a single thread of execution on a single CPU core, including those who already program in parallel. The course is also designed for system administrators who need to support parallel codes, by describing the range of practical options, and their strengths, weaknesses, configuration issues and other important issues.