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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...circulation of images of themselves on coins and medals. As an experienced Venetian diplomat, Giovanni Dario was, of course, fully conversant with the artistic situation in Venice, and one of the requests that emerged from Constantinople in the summer of 1479 was for a ‘good painter’ to make medals and to paint the Sultan’s portrait. 48 After 1453, Venice had lost a...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...doubled between 1860 and 1914, while the number of patients attending each practitioner remained roughly constant (Hardy, 2001, p. 17). However, not everyone was equally well provided with care. Even in the twentieth century, patients in remote Scottish islands faced a journey of several hours to consult a doctor. The situation was much worse in the eastern regions of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...double cone, open at both ends, is not a surface. Solution Although most points on the double cone have disc-like or half-disc-like neighbourhoods, the point z in the middle, indicated in Figure 10(a), does not. One way to see this is to note that if we remove the point z, then the neighbourhood breaks into two pieces, as shown in Figure 10(b). This cannot be the case if...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...double the benefit, because the guard band between the channels can be used for data. Similarly, an 80 MHz channel gives slightly more than double the benefit of a 40 MHz channel. 802.11n and ac can use Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), which takes advantage of the multiple routes radio waves can take in a reflective environment (such as indoors) to enable multiple...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...circulated and read, it was Sir Steven Runciman (1903–2000) who came to the defence of the Empire and Byzantine art in a paper published in Daedalus in 1976. Sir Steven’s article was short, yet punchy, placing Gibbon’s disdain for the Empire within the latter’s contemporary social perspective. Sir Steven, like El Greco did with Vasari, concluded that ‘for all...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...et al. (2016) argue that the very identity of group leadership and that of the leader is open and fluid according to the debates and collective learning of groups and that such processes are even more expansive and open to possibility within a cross-organisational context, which necessarily draws on a broader range of perspectives. Another example will help you understand...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...et al., 2005). In the next activity you can consider how your own responses might relate to these research findings. Activity 7 By looking at your own results from the detecting deception activity you can work out whether or not you a) displayed a truth bias and 2) were better at judging lies or truths. From your results, how many out of the eight did you think were...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...doubleness: he may despise the yes-men who thrive in the courtly milieu, but at the same time he wants to share in the material prosperity they enjoy. Bosola has in common with Iago from William Shakespeare’s Othello his status as a disgruntled servant, though Webster invests his version of this character type with a level of moral awareness absent from Shakespeare’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs