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Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...completely independent. Following in the footsteps of Ackoff, and with others, Schoderbeck et al. (1985) described the complexity of what they regarded as a real or physical system as arising from the interaction of: (a) the number of elements comprising the system, for example, the number of chips on a circuit board; (b) the attributes of the specified elements of the system, for example, the degree of proficiency of ......
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...et al. (2018) Nursing management of paediatric asthma in emergency departments. Emergency Nurse. Doi: 10.7748/en.2018.e1770 You can source this article online by entering the title into a Google search and downloading it from the source on ResearchGate. Remember, to avoid losing your place in the course, you should search for article in a new tab or window. Write down the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...doubling time for a population is 19 years and in other parts of the world it’s longer, but that’s about the worst I think. But it is a population increase that will eventually destroy us. Now, what will happen is that we will eventually eliminate all forms of life except for ourselves. There was a wonderful science fiction film, 1973, called Soylent Green. Soylent...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...doubling of the oil price. Alright it might happen temporarily if we have an explosion in Iran or whatever, but a fundamental shift upwards in the oil price, and the gas price. We may be in a world in which they're going to be low, and even possibly very low. Now, from a climate change point of view, this is potentially very bad news. Audio 1 Question a.Dieter Helm...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...double-sided one. For Protestants there were initially few regrets at the prospect of reforming what they believed to be false religion, but as it became clear that the preferred revolutionary alternative to Catholicism was not Protestantism but deism (the view that true religion is natural, not a matter of revelation), they became much more uneasy. At the same time the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...doubled, and there was a decision to concentrate resources in regions ‘lagging behind’ – the so-called ‘Objective One’ regions. Altogether five regional ‘Objectives’ were created and these subsequently became a focus for alliances, as regions of the various types, especially those with ‘industrial’ and ‘rural’ problems, sought to defend their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...et al. 2000) points out that sociology literally means ‘the study of the processes of companionship’. Although people have always been interested in how their society worked the actual term ’sociology’ was first publicly used by Auguste Comte in 1838. According to Abercrombie et al. (2000), Comte thought that sociology was a science employing observation,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...et al., 2017) so when we look at decisions such as numbers of police needed we are missing most of the workload. Thirdly, it does not usually tell us when or where officers are needed. The next section looks at an alternative way of understanding patterns in crime...Capacity and demand management: 2 Crime pattern theory - Criminologists can look at why crimes occur and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs