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Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...based on the figures you saw earlier, work out what binary data each of these represents. [Described image] Figure 6 Three digitally modulated waveforms Answer Waveform (a) is an example of a BPSK-modulated waveform representing the data: 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1. Waveform (b) is an example of a BASK-modulated waveform representing the data: 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1. Waveform (c) is an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...based empire by its throat. To understand why this was so, we need to understand how the Chinese empire worked; and to do this we need to look at empire as a ‘system of power’. In particular, we need to understand just how vital the Yangzi and Grand Canal were to its internal mechanisms. The Yangzi extended from Shanghai near China’s east coast, past Zhenjiang,...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...de Zeeuw [A face comprising a merger of a photo of a woman and a cartoon of a man] The interview Pirate practices often involve theft and property violations without clearcut ideological motives, as is the case with most torrent trackers. For this reason they are often dubbed apolitical, in a pejorative, delegitimizing sense, namely as ‘merely’ criminal, directed...
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Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...based on the situation you are in. Try to ensure you make the same choices you feel you would naturally make in the given situation. Your choices and decisions will enable the game to identify the gaps in your knowledge and assess your familiarity with the cyber security concepts taught in this lesson. You will need to be watchful and observe what happens around you in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...de France. 1968 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issues a list of banned substances. First ever testing at Mexico City Olympics results in Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a member of the Swedish modern pentathlon team, being stripped of his bronze medal. 1972 Blood doping method is invented in Sweden: removing blood, increasing the concentration of red blood cells in a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...La poubelle This might sound complicated, but doing it is much simpler than describing it. It is very successful as well as being a lot less effort and more fun than learning lists of vocabulary by repeating the words over and over again. Michael Raugh and Richard Atkinson (1975) developed this key word technique and carried out an experiment on two groups of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...De Wolff and Van IJzendoorn, 1997), namely, the extent to which the caregiver is attentive to the infant’s state, behaviour and communication, and responds appropriately. It might be expected that caregiver personality differences would thus be found to be associated with infant attachment security, but here again few direct effects have been found (Egeland and Farber,...
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Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...based) in 2004, and the Encyclopaedia of Wales was published in 2007. Crucially, the first members of the National Assembly for Wales (NAW) were elected in 1999 – since when we have seen the development of a raft of Welsh policies and bodies, in both the government and civil society. These developments are both cause and effect of how people in Wales see themselves, of...
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