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Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...account. The second point puts forward one's nation as a core of value; the third is about the creation of varied markers of centre and periphery; borders, government institutions and others that embody, and which make real, what the ideology has imagined. Freeden rightly warns that this set of concepts cannot be used to explain a great deal in itself. It is necessarily a...
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...accounted for up to 40% of global CO2 emissions in each of those years. In general, there are three categories of fire severity: low severity surface fires high severity stand replacement fires mixed severity fires. Low severity surface fires (Figure 2) are usually frequent and burn surface fuels at low intensities, causing low understory vegetation mortality. They are...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...Accountability: it’s easier to live unconsciously; it’s easier to live through other people; it’s easier to give responsibility for your happiness or success to someone or something else. Negativity: self-awareness takes a lot of work; it’s difficult to break habits; self-awareness is intangible; people don’t see the value in getting to know themselves. (adapted...
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...account for the longer, narrow face of mainland subspecies compared to Svalbard reindeer. The insulating properties of furs and feathers can be easily compared by wrapping pelts around heated objects such as bars and measuring their rate of cooling under various conditions. Such observations indicate that in still air, the insulation of all coats of fur or feathers is...
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...accounted for 7% of global electricity demand in 2012, but could be as high as 12% in 2017. Activity 2 Find the current figures for the power consumption of computers and computer systems. Compare them with these historic figures. Have the trends between 2012 and 2017 continued? Has the proportion of energy spent on manufacture continued to decline, while the proportion...
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...account and to recognise cultural differences in regard to the recording and significance of age...Applying social work law to asylum and immigration: 8.2 Trafficking - Data suggests that 2118 young people were trafficked into the UK in 2016 for the purposes of modern day slavery (ECPAT UK, 2018). The UK government has an obligation arising under the Council of Europe...
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...accounting for a very high proportion of acclaimed new books. The day when one major Scottish writer, Hugh MacDiarmid, languished out of print for years on end, and another, Edwin Muir, relied on the recognition of his quality by T.S. Eliot at Faber, were clearly over. The power of the ‘metropolis’ in British poetry had significantly weakened. This corresponded to the...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...account both environmental and human processes. It suggests looking at how these processes worked together, rather than looking for simple causes and effects taken from either the environmental or human worlds alone. Though each individual wildfire had a distinctive and specific trigger, it was the web of wider processes, circumstances, and events that was key to making...