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What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...simple password managers allow stored passwords to be copied and pasted into log-in boxes. More sophisticated managers let users launch and log in to an application or website by clicking on their entry in the manager itself, while some password managers include browser ‘plug-ins’ so that you can complete a log-in on a web page simply by pressing a button. How do...
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Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...simple instructions in order to achieve these tasks. All of this activity takes place in a simulated desktop tutorial below. No software is loaded onto your computer. To proceed with the activity follow these instructions: click once anywhere on the tutorial image below follow the instructions that appear in the tutorial. Warning – these tutorials sometimes don’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Pressureless sintering
Science, Maths & Technology

Pressureless sintering

...Simple shapes for ease of fill and to prevent mould restraint on shrinkage. Typical applications include filters and porous bearings. Filters require a high permeability, large percentage of controllable porosity and pore sizes. Depending on application, filters also require interconnected porosity, which is maximised by use of spherical powders. See Also: Slip-casting,...
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Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers
Education & Development

Developing reading for pleasure in the classroom with student and early career teachers

...simple audits, book blanket discussions, drawing and talking about their previous and current reading interests. They went on to review and add to a padlet of resources which offers suggestions for supporting early career teachers’ knowledge of children’s texts, reader identities and understanding of reading for pleasure pedagogy. [Developing Reading For Pleasure]...
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Video 20 mins
A reader's guide to Holes
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Holes

...simple and succinct writing style sweeps the reader along, and Holes is a book that can appeal to both adults and children. A film adaptation was released in 2004, with Sigourney Weaver as the sinister Warden and Jon Voight playing an odious guard, Mr Sir. The author has said that his main aim in his books is to make them enjoyable. The moral element has to be secondary...
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Article 5 mins
Write it right: seven common writing mistakes
Languages

Write it right: seven common writing mistakes

...This animation will provide some simple, accessible guidance to help students with their writing. A helpful refresher If you know that you struggle with these common writing mistakes, the time invested in viewing this animation will be valuable. You might want to bookmark this page and come back to this animation as and when you need a refresher on this topic....
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...codes. The process – given the codename ‘ULTRA’ – played a key role in the Allied victory. To make it work, the British government’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, recruited some of the cleverest people they could find. Because so much of the recruitment was through personal connections or Oxford and Cambridge universities, they tended to be more upper class...
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Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...code is designed from scratch, making no allowance for the reuse of existing software. Because the development is carried out as a linear process, the waterfall process does not allow previous phases of the development to be repeated without repeating the whole sequence of steps. [Figure 1] Figure 1 The waterfall development process Exercise 2 What are the disadvantages...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs