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Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists

...system. She is certainly not the archetypal leader of a far-right party. At the big table Now that it will sit in the federal parliament, the AfD needs learn how to deal with the challenges of real world political life inside the Bundestag. It has plenty of members who have plenty to say. It is not short of chiefs. But in the Bundestag it needs to find what the Germans...
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Plasma arc cutting
Science, Maths & Technology

Plasma arc cutting

...systems. Manufacture An alternative to flame cutting, laser cutting, electrical discharge wire cutting and abrasive jet cutting. Used mainly for profile cutting of metal sheets and slabs up to 200 mm thick, but can also be used for cutting, turning, grooving and piercing holes and slots. “Stand-off” height critical, hence process is often combined with other...
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Understanding tax avoidance
Money & Business

Understanding tax avoidance

...system and the responsibility of corporations to society. This episode of the Bottom Line looks at these timely themes in depth. A deceptively simple question: what is tax avoidance? In particular, how can we distinguish it from tax evasion? Tax avoidance is the legal use of the given system to minimise one’s taxes. It can include loopholes and tax haven. Companies who...
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Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...system using pairs of torches, but this doesn't seem to have been widely adopted (the Ancient Greeks were clearly too clever for their contemporaries!). Indeed, it wasn't until the late-18th century that a communications network widely regarded as the precursor to the electrical telegraph came into being. Claude Chappe devised a system of semaphore relay stations which...
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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...think human language and the call system of the vervet monkey might differ. Keep this list with you and compare it with the differences mentioned in the text as you go through the first half of this course. This course is in two parts. In the first half (Section 2), we will investigate the nature and structure of human language, keeping our vervet monkey example on hand...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...thinking about lifestyle and obesity in Activity 1 (i.e. the question ‘Is being overweight related to a person’s lifestyle?’), you might have realised that when considered from the perspective of health and wellbeing the concept is far more complex. In addition, lifestyles go beyond the individual level (Jensen, 2007); for instance, they can be conceived at a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...think it is a change, when your sort of fertile life, periods, ends, and you go into the next stage of your life really. SPEAKER 2 I think menopause, what it means to me is when someone who of a certain age gets more severe mood swings, as well as more drastic change within their bodies. INTERVIEWER Yeah. Why do you think we should be concerned about the menopause?...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...thinking about the world. This means that it involves a certain way of investigating, studying and writing about a topic. In this context, an organism is a living thing – ourselves and other animals, as well as plants, fungi, bacteria and so on. These living things interact with each other in various ways and with the non-living components that make up the environment...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs