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Art history: modern and contemporary
History & The Arts

Art history: modern and contemporary

...changed. Industry was booming, and the speed of life increasing. Artists, thinkers and architects strove to find new ways of encapsulating this new world … and modernism was born. The collection describes how throughout the twentieth century different media and artforms were added to the canon, and the sophisticated social structure of the Art-world developed. This...
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Management in Chinese cultures
Money & Business

Management in Chinese cultures

...change... Management in Chinese cultures An introduction to this album. Clan-based networking Exploring the relationship between Confucian values and the way companies do business in Asia. Guanxi How a form of business relationship that entails mutual obligation is a common way of starting up businesses in Asia. East-West management Asian companies are less hierarchical...
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Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...changing climate and Earth movements is therefore involved in producing many of the geologically recent coastal landforms of the British Isles. In addition, we can remark that concerns about contemporary sea-level rise relate to yet a further process – that of rapid ocean warming accompanied by the expansion of seawater volume...Practising science: reading the rocks and...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...changing. The information about what we should be eating comes from various sources: in the UK a large amount of data was collected and published by COMA, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (1991). This committee has now been disbanded, but its publications still represent a valid source of information about diet. When this course was published (2004), the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...changes underfoot,” Melissa Leach, director of IDS, told the meeting. “The stakes in this, I must emphasise, couldn’t be higher.” Mass unemployment is one; loss of revenue for governments is another; and then there's the disproportionate effect on women workers. Amongst the worried development crowd was a sprinkling of more optimistic technologists and government...
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What is child-led research and why is it important?
Education & Development

What is child-led research and why is it important?

...change something, or wanting to learn about what doing social research is all about. All of these are important reasons for the Children’s Research Centre to support young researchers. Let’s have a closer look: Wanting to find out more about a topic: Few people would deny that curiosity and inquisitiveness are good characteristics to encourage in children and young...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering

...changing business environment, where both politicians and the public are demanding more corporate responsibility and governance – these strong shareholders hold the potential power to change a company’s policies and practices. They can, in this respect, turn to financial engineering to better assess the risks of balancing economic and social goals. Thomas Clarke...
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...Changing the intensity of the light caused the number of electrons emitted to change, but the electrons’ range of energies remained the same. Decreasing the wavelength of the light, however, caused the electrons to be emitted with a higher maximum energy. Conversely, increasing the wavelength of the light beyond a particular cut-off value (specific to each metal),...
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