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Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...et al. (April 28, 2000) ‘Influenza virus isolates’ reported from WHO, Surveillance for Influenza – United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Video 1: Immunology Interactive (Male, Brostoff and Roitt) copyright the authors, reproduced by permission of David Male Video 2: with kind permission from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Every effort has...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...et al., 2005, p. 1). In these respects, the disaster illustrates wider issues of social inequality, discrimination, marginalisation and poverty. Katrina provided an opportunity for long-standing US-wide political controversies to be re-energised, and within days of the disaster different interpretations of its underlying causes, who or what was to blame, and what was...
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...et al. (2015, p. 78). As you can see, cadaver dogs are generally quite accurate, but not all the time. Table 1 Cadaver dog response rate DOG’S RESPONSE SCENT ACTUALLY PRESENT SCENT ACTUALLY ABSENT Woof! A body! 224 11 No body 4 115 Here, the number 11 represents a false positive, and 4 represents a false negative. In this next activity, you will be given a chance to try...
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...motivation for offshoring is access to cheaper labour input, then firms that have labour cost that is a low proportion of their product’s total cost have little to gain from moving production overseas. Also as increasing numbers of firms follow the same strategy, they end up producing in the same country or location, which pushes up local wages, eroding the expected...
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...motivation. In our idle moments too, or in diverting ourselves amidst tedious tasks, we might imagine winning the lottery or our hero scoring the winning goal in a match or, more sinfully, an obnoxious colleague falling under a bus. When we meet or talk to anyone, whether we are assessing them as potential friends or enemies, lovers or colleagues, for either ourselves or...
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...motives for line-breaks. This way, you can discover something about words, about poetry, about your own thought processes and imagination...What is poetry?: 5.3 Stanzas and verse - The poem ‘The literal and the metaphor’, which you read in Section 5.1, was divided into two sections. We call these verses or stanzas, and they are the poetic equivalent of paragraphs, but...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...motives of the people involved. It simplifies the ideas and information in a given situation. It takes wholes as its unit of analysis. It examines each aspect of a problem separately Answer False – this is a feature of casual thinking. False – it may do so, but not always. It can be applied to mechanical or natural systems. True – as do all ways of thinking. True...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru
Money & Business

Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru

...et al. (1998), mae'r cwsmer yn cael tair lefel o fantais o'r cynnyrch: manteision craidd y cynnyrch manteision gwirioneddol y cynnyrch manteision estynedig y cynnyrch. [Y ddelwedd a ddisgrifir] Ffigur 16 Tair lefel o fanteision cynnyrch, Dibb et al. (1998) Yr un manteision craidd sydd i gynnyrch pob cystadleuydd. Mae'r manteision gwirioneddol ac estynedig yn cynnwys y...