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Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...creative opportunities of opening up the BBC's digital archive...Paul Williams Paul Williams is a wildlife photographer, and a producer at the BBC Natural History Unit. Born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Paul's interest in the natural world started at a young age. He found his first fossil on a beach when he was 8 years old, and from that moment he was hooked. At...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...Creative Commons it’s called and it’s an absolutely fine and charitable idea and I’d say, talking as a BBC man, I would say that there’s a rather wonderful public service spirit in that, the creative commons, that we could put an awful lot of rushes or clips, ins or outs, whatever jargon you want to use, online, free to use. And there’s a lot of talk about this...
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Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...writing philosophy the overriding aim is clarity. Clarity is generally best achieved by writing in plain English. Technical or semi-technical terms should only be used when – as in this case – plain English provides no easy way around a potential confusion. Why is the question as to the nature of persons a question for philosophers not biologists? In ordinary...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...write some notes in the box below. If you have difficulty differentiating the different bars on the bar chart, please see the further description below. . Further description The figure comprises a set of statements numbered from 1 to 12. You are required to provide an answer for each statement for your view of both your ‘line manager’ and ‘senior management’ by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...writing is from left to right, in horizontal lines. The alphabet was originally written on palm fronds. As a result, the letters are made up mainly of curved strokes which would not have ripped the fronds. Table 1 The 12 Tamil vowels அ a எ e ஆ aa ஏ ee இ i ஐ ai ஈ ii ஒ o உ u ஓ oo ஊ uu ஔ au Table 2 The 18 Tamil consonants, with the Grantha letters...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...writing, the blog WordPress.com boasts of having over 400 million people viewing more than 22.3 billion pages each month! According to the Pew Research Center (2012), over 91,000 podcasts were produced in 2011 alone. Finding the most relevant resources from all of these is a difficult task and one that will get more difficult as the number of blogs and podcasts increases....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...writing, if a learner is already familiar with the sounds to which the letters can correspond: for instance, that the phoneme ‘k’ can correspond to the letters ‘c’ as in ‘curtain’, ‘k’ as in ‘kilo’ and ‘q’ as in ‘queen’. Once this code has been ‘cracked’ for one language, it is easier to apply those principles of matching to another...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...write each value as the symbol x plus a subscript number in brackets, where the subscript number shows the position of that value within the ordered batch. Figure 2 shows the 15 prices written out in ascending order using this subscript notation. [Described image] Figure 2 Subscript notation for ordered data The lower extreme, uppercase E subscript uppercase L end , is...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs