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How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...Institute, the Social Affairs Unit, said something similar in a report called “Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State”. It said the system was out of control, out of financial control and moral control, and it was misleading and mesmerising people especially intellectuals. We were then regarded as eccentrics. All would be well, the policy experts said, if only the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...Institute of Technology, who set up a scale on the basis of many years of observations and applied it to well-known earthquakes. He explained the scale in a now classic paper published in 1935. Professor Richter modestly never attached his own name to the scale. He even refused to call it the Richter scale in his papers, long after the press and public had made 'Richter...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...et Psychologie Normale et Pathologique, vol. 27, pp. 36–52. Campbell, A. (2011) Report of the Fingerprint Inquiry Scotland [Online]. Available at http://www.thefingerprintinquiryscotland.org.uk/inquiry/21.html (Accessed 17 December 2013). Chisum, W. J. and Turvey, B. E. (2000) ‘Evidence dynamics: Locard’s Exchange Principle & crime reconstruction’, Journal of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...institutional guise, would argue there are going to be profound psychological impacts of those different forms of organisation. What are they? How do we set about investigating those? So, there’s the face-to-face instruction element and there’s understanding the impact of different forms of social organisation on the way children think and learn. I think that is a...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...et al. (April 28, 2000) ‘Influenza virus isolates’ reported from WHO, Surveillance for Influenza – United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Video 1: Immunology Interactive (Male, Brostoff and Roitt) copyright the authors, reproduced by permission of David Male Video 2: with kind permission from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Every effort has...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...communal periods because of the loudness of the TV. Noise is a major problem. (Ashley, et al. (1994), p. 12) So is this prisoner really free to study? Although the prison authorities don't actively prevent him from doing so, the noise in the prison at some times of the day does. A prisoner's freedom may be curtailed in many ways beyond preventing him or her leaving the prison, and not all of those curtailments of freedom......
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...et al., 2006, pp. 47–8) The doctrine of ‘just war’ was further influenced by Christian theologians such as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, the latter famously stated in Summa Theologica that the three criteria for just war are: it should be waged by a sovereign authority (prohibition of waging a private war) it must have a just cause (punishment of wrongdoers)...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl

...et al. (2008, t.5) yn diffinio iechyd meddwl a lles da fel dim salwch meddwl fel iselder, a’r gallu i ymdopi â heriau bob dydd mewn ffordd gadarnhaol, optimistaidd ac adeiladol. Gan ddefnyddio’r diffiniad hwn, mae ymarfer corff yn gallu bod yn fuddiol i’ch iechyd meddwl mewn dwy ffordd. Yn gyntaf, mae ymarfer corff yn gallu atal neu leihau salwch meddwl fel...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs