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Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...analysis. Table 1.2 shows trophic bands as defined in relation to concentrations of total phosphorus. Table 1.2 Trophic bands for standing waters. (Phosphorus concentrations tend to be higher in running waters that carry suspended sediment.) TROPHIC BAND TOTAL PHOSPHORUS/MG L-1 dystrophic <0.005 oligotrophic 0.005-0.01 mesotrophic 0.01-0.03 eutrophic 0.03-0.1 hypertrophic...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...data. Answer First, calculate how many students there were altogether: 16 + 32 + 12 = 60 students. The whole pie chart (360°) must, therefore, represent 60 students. This means that each student is represented by 360° ÷ 60 = 6°. So the angles for the three slices are distinctions 16 × 6 = 96° pass grades 32 × 6 = 192° failed to complete 12 × 6 = 72° The pie...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...Data – April 2011 to February 2012 [Online]. Available at https://digital.nhs.uk/ data-and-information/ publications/ statistical/ hospital-episode-statistics-for-admitted-patient-care-outpatient-and-accident-and-emergency-data/
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...analysis (Porter, 1979). This framework was originally developed to assess the attractiveness (profit potential) of different industries. The five forces make up an industry’s structure: the threat of entry into an industry the threat of substitutes to the industry’s products or services the power of buyers of the industry’s products or services the power of...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...analysis: ‘not seeing the wood for the trees’. The required balance between analysis (the ordering and identification of a number of interrelated points relevant to a set question) and illustrative detail or textual evidence will vary. Try to keep in your mind this distinction between detail and argument as you read the rest of this course. Often the main point being...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...analysis, is what they really don't want to do. Although Berlin doesn't actually use the term, in the passage you have just read Berlin contrasts paternalism with a particular way in which the concept of positive freedom has frequently been misused. Paternalism is coercing people for their own sake. An example of paternalism is putting fluoride in drinking water, whether...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...analysis of the political and economic structures of a given society. It might be said that everyone has a kind of ‘criminological imagination’. That is, whenever a crime story or other shocking or harmful event is featured in the news, people often immediately begin to imagine the circumstances that may have led to the event, how the victims and their families may...
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...analysis and understanding of the tablet. Although there is clearly an error somewhere along the bottom line, our pattern is equally preserved by taking it to be the column B entry that is in error, as double what it should be. This, however, disrupts the analysis in terms of generation by means of p,q pairs. The choice, then, between these two alternative errors depends...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs