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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...accounting for nearly one-quarter of the amount of MSW expected to be generated by the entire world (Hoornweg and Bhada-Tata, 2012). [Described image] Figure 8 Estimated past and predicted annual growth of MSW in China in million tonnes per year from 1980 to 2025 (adapted from Zhang et al., 2010; Hoornweg and Bhada-Tata, 2012) Activity 3 Growth of MSW Timing: Allow about...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...account and do the activities associated with it if at all possible, as this does add a great deal of value to your networking practice. We will look at pedagogy associated with open learning itself in Week 5 of this course. The course is set out week by week as many learners prefer to structure their study this way. However, it is not essential that you study it in this...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...account of Acadian history as it contains numerous inaccuracies and dissimulates historical details. And yet, this rose-colored account not only contributed to the strengthening of the American national sentiment of the time; the Cajuns, for want of a founding myth, also readily accepted the New England poet’s retelling of the Grand Dérangement and appropriated it as...
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Article 15 mins
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...accounts are far from unanimous on how this happened – there are now but a handful of papyri and other objects to convey a sense of Egyptian mathematical activity. The largest and best preserved of these is the Rhind papyrus (Extract 1), now in the British Museum, a copy made in about 1650 BC of a text from two centuries earlier. In Box 3 the Egyptologist Sir Alan...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...account for 11 per cent of 2023 coverage hours of women’s sport but 77 per cent of viewing hours, with football dominating. Of note, women’s sport continues to attract new audiences: for example, 15.6 million people watched the Women’s World Cup in 2023. While progress has been made in terms of visibility, with record numbers in 2023, coverage reduced in 2021 and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...account all the statutes and ACOPs, including fire precautions, which all persons must be told about. The host employer must provide these persons with adequate information regarding the risks to their health and safety. In view of the fact that Acts of Parliament take a long time to be enacted, and health and safety is an ever-changing subject, the HSWA 1974 allows for...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Internships and other work experiences Badge icon
Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...accounted for a whopping 90% of the difference between the best and the rest. But what exactly is emotional intelligence? According to Goleman, it's made up of five components, self-awareness self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill. Let's examine each in turn. Self-awareness is understanding one's own emotions and their effect on others. Self-aware leaders...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...accounted for less than 3% of domestic energy consumption. In some commercial offices, however, lighting can account for up to 30% of the delivered energy use. Modern factory units and hypermarket buildings are built with barely any windows, and some ‘deep-plan’ office buildings, such as those at Canary Wharf in London shown in Figure 10, have plenty of windows on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs