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What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...de Paul order in full habit, complete with cornette. All these cultural trends generated cultural products (maps, drawings, descriptions) which are, in themselves, evidence of socio-economic developments and power relations. After all, a person had to be very rich to acquire an estate of land and only the well-off had the money and time to purchase and read travel...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...classes of problem which lead to loss through a joint (referred to as insertion loss): Those resulting from differences between two fibres being joined, possibly because of imperfections in the fibres (variations in core or cladding refractive indices, core or cladding diameters, ellipticity, eccentricity of core and cladding), see Figure 9. Those resulting from alignment...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...de-personalizing of complex issues. This results in overt generalisations, reductionism, a lack of depth, and more recently, a global populist political backlash. [The Audio Booth; Photo Credit: Lucia Scazzocchio. All rights reserved.] The Audio Booth; Photo Credit: Lucia Scazzocchio. All rights reserved. Following the European Referendum in Britain, for example, the...
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Article 15 mins
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others...Collective leadership: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you should be able to: briefly describe leadership theory, considering the leader, the follower and the collective...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...class males to pick up young boys of different races. Very few drag queens were allowed in there, because if they had allowed drag queens into the club, it would have brought the club down. That would have brought more problems to the club. It’s the way the Mafia thought, and so did the patrons. So the queens who were allowed in basically had inside connections. I used...
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Article 5 mins
Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...Class Tyrel Maynor, USS Cleveland (LPD 7) Commanding Officer Capt. Frank McCulloch, and Culinary Specialist Seaman Sean Unterdorfer visit a patient at Cleveland's Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital. ] A child gets a visit from the US Navy while in hospital. But long stays in hospital can cause some children to develop attachments to objects Something special can...
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Article 10 mins
Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...class of signalling molecules produced and released by various glands in the body that regulate the activity of cells or organs. Hormones are essential for the correct function of many bodily functions such as blood sugar levels, sleep cycles, growth and mood balance. However, the growth of some cancers is increased by specific hormones. One example is prostate cancer,...
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Article 15 mins
Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...class of possibilities from which they can choose, so they do not jump at the first thing that comes to mind Activity 4 Main task Write down a decimal number that lies between 2 and 3. Now add a further constraint. Write down a decimal number that lies between 2 and 3, and does not use the digit 5. Now add a further constraint. Write down a decimal number that lies...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs