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Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
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Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...Determine the odd one out. The first has been done for you. Tache el intruso. Word clusters SUSTANTIVO ADJETIVO iglesia grande • preciosa •• antigua aeropuerto moderno • grande • feo • gótico restaurante animado • agradable • moderno • metálico bar enorme • antiguo • comercial • céntrico parque blanco • grande • bonito • precioso Answer...
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...determined by technology and technological development, as Castells (1996) notes ‘many factors, including individual inventiveness and entrepreneurialism, intervene in the process of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and social applications, so that the final outcome depends on a complex pattern of interaction.’ He continues: Thus, when in the 1970s a...
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...determinants, quality and number. You can calculate the number of an interval by regarding the lower note as the tonic and then counting up the degrees of the scale. Thus, as shown in Example 60, the interval C–E would be a third, C–G a fifth and C–B a seventh. C to the same C is a unison; C to the C eight notes higher, an octave. Note that the two notes in the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...determine whether anyone unauthorised can read it. Similarly, decrypting a message can give the advantage to an eavesdropper. The film The Imitation Game (2014), starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, provides a good background to the decrypting or ‘cracking’ of the German Enigma machine during the Second World War (Figure 8). [Publicity poster for 'The...
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...determine our research methods. We should seek answers to our research questions through data rather than looking for research questions in data. This is why it is so important to have a research design that guides our methods. Following a traditional division, research designs are ‘types of inquiry within qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches that...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...determine success or failure. Kaplan and Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in the early 1990s as a means to provide a more holistic diagnosis of a business’ performance. They argue that lagging financial indicators are not sufficient enough to tell senior management whether work taking place on the ground accurately corresponds to the business’ corporate...
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...determining how the performers create and balance the different sounds of the instruments. In this quickly moving variation, the melody is in the slower moving parts, the cello and bass. In the previous section, you heard the performers discussing how they referred to the score when deciding on elements of balance. Now, listen to it several times and follow each layer of...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...determined not to create some alternative canon of works and composers in terms of women’s music. And so I would insist that performances not be repeated or particular pieces not be repeated. And then over the years, I’ve had to relax that partly because I realised that in fact, listening to different performances of the same piece by different performers is part of...