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Creativity and artificial intelligence
Languages

Creativity and artificial intelligence

...determines the whole question of whether AI is capable of being creative. The second issue concerns the likely implications that would result from machines learning to behave in creative ways. What impact will this have on our current ways of life? If computers are able to replicate this aspect of our behaviour, does this mean it’s just a matter of time before we’re...
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Cultural differences in mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cultural differences in mental health?

...determined. In the UK, psychiatric admissions to hospital of men from African and Caribbean origins are roughly twice as high as for white British men and there has been much concern that this group is being over-diagnosed with psychotic conditions. In his book Mental health, race and culture (Palgrave, 2002) psychiatrist Suman Fernando makes a plea for mental health...
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Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...determine how much of an investor’s portfolio to put in each asset class. Portfolio theory can also be used to determine so-called model portfolios which offer optimised benchmarks for investors with the same objectives and constraints...This course looks at how to take investor objectives and constraints and turn them into a portfolio which aims at achieving an...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...determined … well, men. It is perhaps hard for us to contemplate, then, that early in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a two-and-a-half-year dispute over pay, conditions and national bargaining rights involving women was transformed into a nationwide, profession-wide struggle that culminated in an all-out strike that lasted for around three months. Even...
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The Industrial Revolution and Time
History & The Arts

The Industrial Revolution and Time

...determined by sun dials. These were calibrated to the astronomical readings of an enthusiastic squire or vicar. Outside the great observatories, such as Greenwich, the first long-case clocks possessed only one hand to give a rough idea of the time before or after an approximate hour. Greater accuracy than twenty minutes a day was difficult to achieve. The Industrial...
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Article 10 mins
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...determined by the two copies of a gene that an organism possesses and these two copies are identical in a pure-breeding variety understand that when organisms with contrasting characters for which they are pure-breeding are crossed, the dominant character appears in the first offspring or first filial generation and the recessive character is masked...Meiosis and mitosis:...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Would you want your child to become an interpreter?
Languages

Would you want your child to become an interpreter?

...determined by the status of LOTEs as well as the people and communities who they serve. Examining the status of language workers is, therefore, a good prism through which to understand the sociolinguistics of bilingualism. If you are still not convinced, ask yourself this question: would you be happy if your child wanted to become an interpreter? This article was...
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Article 5 mins
Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: With the mothers of Munich & Birmingham

...determine what is important to them. One of the methods involved asking participants to respond visually to the question: how is it for you to be a mother here [e.g., in Birmingham]? I give the women a white sheet of paper and a bunch of colourful felt-tip pens and, when they are finished with the drawing, we start talking about the images they created. The images...
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