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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...autonomously, without access to the likely meanings of words or the context. This is a modular model, with processing going on in separate watertight subsystems. The alternative would be an interactive approach. In an interactive model, phoneme recognition and segmentation processes would already be influenced by information about what meanings are likely to be conveyed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...autonomous learners; the value of childhood in its own right; relationships matter.] Figure 4 A Froebel Trust poster showing Froebelian principles See the poster in its full size here Watch this video where Dr Sacha Powell, Chief executive Officer of The Froebel Trust, as she talks to Nicola about the importance of these principles. SACHA POWELL: Principles are really...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...autonomous activists and youth movements, but also institutions such as political parties, trade unions and churches. Beyond those involved in the anti-nuclear campaign in some way, popular culture reflected the pervasive anxieties of the very real possibility of a nuclear war that could lead to the end of humanity. Pop music from this period saw artists ranging from...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...autonomous action. These features seem to be present in the Linux case. (My colleague John Naughton considers the Internet as a wonderful example of self-organisation.) This perspective, it is claimed, builds on the study of non-linear feedback networks, complex adaptive systems and what Stacey and his colleagues now call complex responsive processes (see Appendix C)....
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...Système International. The SI unit for length is the metre and for time is the second. In SI units, therefore, speed is expressed as metres per second. There is more about SI units in The Sciences Good Study Guide (Northedge et al., 1997). Activity 30 For a communications satellite to be in a geostationary orbit it has to be about 36,000 km above the Earth. How much...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...autonomously perform the descent. The crew is in constant communication with the ground. They verify the validity of the data before allowing the computer to use it. At this stage, the crew must pay special attention to prepare for the next critical operation, the deorbit burn. As can be seen, although the Soyuz is now far away from the station, it is still orbiting the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Système Internationale (SI) or International System, on which the metric system is based, and imperial. Both of these will be covered over the next two weeks, and this week will look in particular at measuring length. Watch the course author Maria Townsend introduce Week 1: Maria Townsend: This is my height measured in books, not a common unit of measurement but still an...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...autonomous genius and cannot simply have been painted according to official dictates. This conception of artistic creation as self-expression in fact crystallized during the period that we are considering, and is one of the defining features of Romanticism as a broad cultural movement. Click to see plate 3 Antoine-Jean Gros, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs