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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...de Commynes remarked that ‘most of the people are foreigners’. And this perception of a society in which northerners (Flemish and Germans), Dalmatians, Greeks, Muslims, Jews and mainland Italians mingled with indigenous Venetians was sharpened in the sixteenth century by the Venetian writer Francesco Sansovino: ‘Peoples from the most distant parts of the world...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...class, vehicle and target audience, constructing a promotional message is key in the creative process. There are several crucial structural elements of the message that need to be considered. These are: i.message source ii.message balance iii.message appeal. In the following sections, you will explore each of these in turn...Marketing communications in the digital age:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...class of drugs called the antihistamines. So histamine is just usually walled off in the mast cell and not in our system. But the IgE antibodies we just talked about, they are friends with the mast cells. And only when they’re carrying a foreign body like this do they find a mast cell and attach to it. So every pair of the IgE that has picked up an allergen will go then...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...DES Data Encryption Standard PSTN public switched telephone DMZ demilitarised zone network DNS domain name system RC2 Rivest cipher 2 DSS Digital Signature Standard RC4 Rivest cipher 4 FTP file transfer protocol RSA Rivest, Shamir and IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Adleman block cipher Authority S-HTTP secure hypertext transfer ICMP internet control message protocol...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...class areas of Northern Ireland. It was produced with young people from Belfast and local community activists, for young people aged 14+. The course aims to help young people think about what community means to them; to identify issues they are concerned about locally; and to develop skills to make positive choices about changing things and contributing to their community...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...classes of membrane receptors: (a) ion-channel receptors; (b) 7-helix transmembrane receptors (7TM receptors); (c) receptors with intrinsic enzymatic activity (RIEA); (d) enzyme-associated receptors (recruiter receptors). Receptors that also serve as the effector For example, one type of acetylcholine receptor is also an ion channel, and belongs to a family of receptors...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Fast Reactors and Thorium
Science, Maths & Technology

Fast Reactors and Thorium

...class of reactors: the ‘fast reactors’. A fast reactor has no moderator, merely a coolant with which useful energy can be extracted (e.g. for electricity generation). Typical coolants used in experimental, prototype, and demonstration fast reactors have included liquid sodium, inert gases and lead (or lead alloys). Fast reactors have been investigated throughout the...
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Article 10 mins
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...class culture. The stories of individual prisoners told by Fry and other reformers to promote the Newgate project don’t provide much insight into the typical female prisoner or their experience at Newgate. Prison journals and registers do give us a brief snapshot of the women’s crimes, personal details and punishments. Most were unmarried, under the age of 30,...
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Article 15 mins