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Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...physical and mental capacity, age, religion, housing status and regional differences fall under this heading. The claim that the United States is becoming ever more linguistically and culturally diverse is also relevant to other countries, including those of Western Europe. This means that many of the issues raised in the video have a global relevance, even if the...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
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Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...physical act of writing will keep you focused, even if you never need to refer to the notes after the event. If there are just too many distractions, tell the speaker at the earliest opportunity and suggest you move to a different place or delay the conversation until it is quieter. Finally, make sure that you are not the cause of the distraction. Playing with your pen,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...physical space and use analogue tools such as a whiteboard or pens and paper? Use the space below to note your thoughts, if you wish...Hybrid working: skills for leadership: 2 New ways of working need new ways of leading - Who are you as a hybrid leader? This next section of the course will focus on you and your role as a hybrid leader. You will have to be flexible in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...PHYSICAL QUANTITY NAME OF UNIT SYMBOL FOR UNIT length metre m time second s mass kilogram kg temperature kelvin K amount of substance mole mol electric current ampere A luminous intensity candela cd Most of these base units relate to physical descriptions that apply universally. The SI base unit of time, the second, is defined as the period over which the waves emitted by...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...physical classroom environment, learners can feel isolated and unsupported, so an increased pastoral presence by the teacher, initiated via online communications, can help reduce that feeling of isolation and develop a more ‘comfortable’ experience for the learner. A large scale, follow-up study by one of Price’s co-authors (Richardson, 2009), which looked at the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...physically (it is not broken). The assembly of components that forms a system does something, it carries out some process. This process will work on inputs, carry out transformations and produce outputs in order to achieve a goal. If you view your body as a system, it consists of organs, it takes oxygen and food as inputs, and does transformations that keep you alive. As...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...physically enter the economic system for further processing or direct consumption (they are ‘used’ by the economy). Direct Material Input (DMI) DMI represents materials supply. It measures the direct input of materials for use into the economy, i.e. all materials that are of economic value and are used in production and consumption activities. Total Material...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...physical vigour and attractiveness: Happily with some strong-thighed bargeman; Or one o’th’woodyard that can quoit the sledge Or toss the bar; or else some lovely squire That carries coals up to her privy lodgings. (2.5.42–5) The lines register a fear of encroachment by men whose lower rank is compensated for by their superior masculinity. But what the verse chiefly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs