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Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...physical properties of air and water and describe implications of such differences for aquatic mammals give examples of the adaptations displayed by aquatic mammals that enable them to hold their breath while submerged for relatively long periods describe some of the biological differences between pinnipeds, sirenians and cetaceans discuss the importance of communication...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...physical feature puts a disabled person under a ‘substantial disadvantage’, a landowner only has to make reasonable adjustments to it if they are a ‘service provider’. There is one issue of fact and one issue of law. Everything else is agreed. The factual issue is whether the gate amounts to a ‘substantial disadvantage’ to Sara Hopmeier. Sara Hopmeier says...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...physical world around us to meet some recognised need’ (Rogers, 1983). Rogers was not a software developer, but an engineer specialising in thermodynamics and jet-engine development. Yet his definition captures the essence of engineering and has a wide applicability which extends to software. Much of our endeavour in software development is the design and construction...
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...physics), or particular fields within the sciences, as being dominated in any one period by a single paradigm. [People playing tug of war with a rope.] Figure 5 People can hold views that can be considered in opposition to those of others In the social sciences, however, within which some argue education and childhood and youth research sits, it can be argued that there...
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...physics, and ultimately it doesn’t really matter what level you want to stabilise the temperature at, any level of stable temperature requires greenhouse gas emissions ultimately to fall to zero, and that clear statement by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, by the scientists, has gradually been understood. And the G7 in its statement in the summer of this...
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...physics, mathematics and engineering. Journal websites [A screenshot of the results of searching for the term "ecology journal" on Google. ]Figure 7 Results of searching for "ecology journal"Show descriptionA screenshot of the results of a search for the term "ecology journal" on Google. The titles of nine journals with the word ‘ecology’ in the title are shown, and a...
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...physical things, with buildings. For example I think they would identify much more with Merchant City than many ordinary Glaswegians who had never heard of Merchant City until the image makers had created it. Jean Forbes: And then we're just passing on either side here ones which are nineteenth century buildings ... . . . I like what has been done to the Merchant City....
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...physical sciences, a number of educational deficiencies have resulted. It is, for example, unhelpful to overemphasise the idea that human behaviour is predictable and subject to immutable and universal ‘laws’. It is now commonplace to ‘reduce’ migration to an essentially mechanical process of ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors. The topic becomes disconnected from...