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Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...variables in the equations stand for the following: PI is initial project investment NCF is positive net cash flow L is project life. Where PI = £100 000, NCF = £135 000, and L = 5 years: multiline equation line 1 annual average proceeds equals cap n times cap c times cap f divided by cap l line 2 equation left hand side equals right hand side prefix pound of 135 000...
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...variability in children’s mental health, meaning that it can vary between being ‘good’ (or ideal) or ‘bad’ (or compromised). However, there are significant differences between adults and children. For instance, very young children are likely to have less understanding about their feelings: they can find it difficult to clearly identify their emotions and they...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...classed as mildly learning disabled. Next you will consider learning disability as a social condition...Session 1: What is a learning disability?: 3 Medical or social? - You might have come across debates about whether a learning disability is a medical or a social condition. You already know from the definitions given in Section 2 that a learning disability is lifelong,...
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

...variables. And in an ideal world, most clinics would use LED microscopy or GeneXpert. But these techniques are expensive and slow. A rat, which costs $6,500 to train, can rattle through 100 samples in 20 minutes. A GeneXpert device, which costs $17,000, takes around two hours to analyse a single sample. It costs about $1 to screen a sample using a rat, compared with $10...
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...class Mammalia. Many of these are adaptations to a life on land. For example: Mammals give birth to young at a relatively advanced stage of development and feed their young on milk. Most mammals have hair, or fur, covering part or all of the body. Mammals have a high metabolic rate and maintain a relatively high and constant body temperature, irrespective of the...
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...variable and another, as is shown on the x and y axes of a graph. * Functional: Something working as it is meant to. Fit for purpose. The term functional is also used to describe an item or operation as practical or utilitarian, rather than attractive. * Geometry: The shape and relative arrangement of constituent parts. The study of the relationship between points, lines,...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...variable in success. Research undertaken by The Open University has revealed that learners experiencing mental ill-health are very reticent to ask for support from their educator (Lister et al., 2021). Learners reported that knowing their educators were supportive and genuinely cared about their mental health needs made a big difference to their sense of attachment to...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...variables such as your skills, the coach’s openness, their perceptions of the development process and initiating your relationship productively. You have read about the need to get to know coaches as people and find some shared mutual connections that allow empathy and rapport. In effect, you have explored the first three steps in the Behavioural stairway model (Figure...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs