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Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...Data specific to the medium is also added at the post-production stage. For a CD or download this would include information about track separation, track numbers and the length of each track. Once all the digital audio and associated data is finalised, the master recording is stored. At the same time as all this is going on, any accompanying text and artwork is finalised...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...analysis of ‘The Teetotaller’ is possible. For example, section A can be divided into two shorter subsections, as shown in Table 13. These subsections begin with the same melodic material and might thus be understood as variations of one another. These have been notated as a and a′, using lower-case letters to indicate that they are subsections of the larger A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...data indicates a worsening of the situation. What is critical to realise is that inequality of income is but one fragment of the story. Inequality of income intersects with inequalities related to accessing education and healthcare. For instance, maternity mortality rates in low-income countries in 2017 was 462 per 100 000 live births compared to 11 per 100 000 live...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...analysis of visual and material expressions of religion understand the role of material culture within religious rituals and practices recognise the complexity and diversity of the many different styles of ‘veils’ and ‘veiling’ practices in Islam and of the range of different factors that can influence the adoption and interpretation of different ‘veiling’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...data). It wasn’t until 1974, that ITN introduced the computer to present the information on screen. Using a VT30, it was the first time raster graphics were seen on British Television. Although the images produced were similar to those used on Teletext, it had the advantage of being able to be played back quickly ideal when large amounts of data are being presented...
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Article 15 mins
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...data. The rats are saving lives every day, and, argue some advocates, the time has now come for dogs to do the same. There is a lyric of a Van Morrison song: ‘I can smell your TB sheets’. The first ‘Lancet letter’ came in 1989. Writing, as the name suggests, in the Lancet medical journal, a pair of dermatologists reported the case of a patient whose dog constantly...
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Article 5 mins
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...data floating around and it’s getting more every year. When you shoot on 4K cameras you get something like a terabyte of information every 45 minutes, so that’s enormous amounts, and those images, remember, are almost worthless unless you get someone to go through and look at them and make a note of what is on each file, because the files are meaningless. So could you...
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Video 35 mins
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...data with students. Encouraging students to reflect on their own work and that of their peers is an important language learning strategy, because it builds higher-order thinking skills. In addition, being able to monitor your own progress against learning outcomes (i.e. to self-assess) is important in becoming an independent learner. Discovering for yourself how to move...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs