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The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...classes. Being out of term the school was closed to its pupils, but we found a contractor there removing the old stoves and putting in a system of hot-water heating, which he said was better fitted to resist the cold of the Boston winters. He was not a very conversable man, but so much we screwed out of him, with the added fact that the tuition of that school was no...
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General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...classes of G-proteins – trimeric and monomeric. As their names suggest, trimeric G-proteins are composed of three subunits (α, β and γ). Monomeric G-proteins consist of only a single polypeptide that is analogous to the α subunit of trimeric G-proteins. Trimeric G-proteins interact with a class of receptor known as G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). In their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...de Almeida, F. C., Rossato, L. M., Leite, A. M. and de Lima, R. A. (2010) ‘Mothers’ view on late postoperative pain management by the nursing team in children after cardiac surgery’, Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 18(4), pp. 709–715. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692010000400008. Paisley, A. (2023) ‘WHO World Patient Safety Day 2023:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...de Tocqueville put it, the idea of rights ‘removes from any request its supplicant character, and places the one who claims it on the same level as the one who grants it’. Rights: a definition A right is a justifiable entitlement to something (the object of the right), by virtue of the possession of a relevant attribute, against an agent or agents with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...Las Vegas and got stuck on a runway you will know what that feels like!). The insulation also ensures that passengers don’t come into contact with any cold metal structures and helps to reduce external noise from the wind and engines. You may sometimes have noted that your luggage is quite cold and this because some of the luggage holds are not as highly insulated as...
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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...de la Paz. United Nations via Flickr: the original can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/3839892431 [Details correct as of 17 November 2011] Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Every effort has been made to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...de Janeiro. [Figure 5] Figure 5 The lines of longitude (in red) and latitude (in blue) on planet Earth as viewed from above the North Pole. In Figure 4 you can see that the blue lines of latitude are always the same distance apart, whereas Figure 5 shows the distance between the red lines of longitude decreases towards the North (and also the South) Pole, where they...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...informal reasoning’, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 58(2), pp. 142–52. Harrell, M. (2007) ‘Using argument diagramming software to teach critical thinking skills’, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA). Orlando, Florida, USA. Harrell, M. (2011) ‘Argument diagramming and critical ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs