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Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...account of a forensic investigation concerning a PE product which fractured as a result of oxidation and chain degradation. IR and UV spectroscopy were critical tools in the determination of the causes of the failure of the product...Introduction to polymers: 2.3.2 Chain branching - A germ of the idea is shown by the formulae for 2- and 3-methylpentane in Figure 16. A...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...account our own limitations as decision makers, we can at least hope to make ‘good’ decisions in the light of the available information. Yet if making good decisions is critical, so too is actually implementing those decisions. As we have already seen, when engaged in community policing certain skills such as active listening, communicating and stakeholder management...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...account when recruiting team members and allocating tasks and responsibilities to them. Team loyalties and commitments need to be balanced with other loyalties and commitments. Often we will have limited or no choice about who is recruited to the team. We may find that we just have to make do with the situation and struggle to be effective despite limitations in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...account, the primatologist Jane Goodall describes how a monkey who had spied fruit in a tree refrained from retrieving it, or even looking at it, until the other monkeys present had left the area (Goodall, 1971). Might this suggest that the monkey understood that its own behaviour would affect the knowledge (i.e. mental states) of the other monkeys? As humans, we assume...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...account of the fact that pulses don't remain rectangular as they spread, and that the effects are statistical – the error rate increases with increasing pulse spreading. The simple model of allowing spreading by up to half a symbol interval is adequate for order-of-magnitude considerations, however. The main causes of pulse spreading differ between multimode and...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...accounting for changing conceptions of the role of the author and performance. I want to say something about these issues, but first I'd like to ask you to think about how you answered the question. I can't anticipate every possible response to this question, but I'd be surprised if you hadn't taken into account that the three actors are young, white and male....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...accounted for 33.2 per cent of the advertisements (17 per cent + 16.2 per cent), and in September 1996, for 32.2 per cent (14.4per cent + 17.8 per cent) The data was derived from The Guardian and shows a breakdown of recruitment advertising by column centimetres (an area that is one standard column wide and one centimetre deep). This is the standard format for selling...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...accountable for their own practice. The next section looks at the work of the regulatory body for nurses in the UK...So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing: 5 Regulation of nurses in the UK - Nursing in the UK is regulated by a body called the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), where all registered nurses, midwives and nursing associates have their...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs