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The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...variability in drug response (IVDR). However, recent research has shown that the gut microbiome of the individual also plays an important role in the IVDR. This new area of research has been called pharmacomicrobiomics. As you will learn shortly, the gut microbiome can be modified (both beneficially and detrimentally) in many ways. This can potentially alter the way an...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...class origins to fame and success, while another protagonist, King Edward II, is sexually infatuated with his favourite Piers Gaveston. Marlowe's literary reputation has depended to a considerable extent on how different historical periods have viewed his life and his unconventional protagonists. Those critics in the eighteenth century who had some knowledge of Marlowe...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...class you come from-- what you see, how you make meaning, and the choices that you make? Let me take that a step further. In fact, if that socioeconomic class was to be stripped away, that is, if you were to take out the glasses of the class that you come from, you might find that the other is just like you. In fact, it's another you. And what would you get by discovering...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...class’ ‘They won't let me in their group’ ‘Keep it in the family’ ‘Within the terms of reference’ ‘An outsider’ ‘Exclusive restaurant’ ‘In time’ ‘In washing the window, I cracked it.’ ‘There are lots of houses in London’ ‘In love’ ‘Let out your bottled up anger’ ‘Fall into a depression’ ‘I put a lot of energy into this’...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...classes. Being out of term the school was closed to its pupils, but we found a contractor there removing the old stoves and putting in a system of hot-water heating, which he said was better fitted to resist the cold of the Boston winters. He was not a very conversable man, but so much we screwed out of him, with the added fact that the tuition of that school was no...
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General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...classes of G-proteins – trimeric and monomeric. As their names suggest, trimeric G-proteins are composed of three subunits (α, β and γ). Monomeric G-proteins consist of only a single polypeptide that is analogous to the α subunit of trimeric G-proteins. Trimeric G-proteins interact with a class of receptor known as G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). In their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...class people who don't understand the economic situations of those whose livelihood depends on a particular industry. Take the fishing industry for example. Fishing quotas are seen by environmentalists as a chance for regeneration of fishing stock, whereas the fishing folk see it as unemployment and an economic decline in the local area. This particular issue is revisited...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...de Tocqueville put it, the idea of rights ‘removes from any request its supplicant character, and places the one who claims it on the same level as the one who grants it’. Rights: a definition A right is a justifiable entitlement to something (the object of the right), by virtue of the possession of a relevant attribute, against an agent or agents with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs