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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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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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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
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...data. Dr Aleks Krotoski In my life, it's increasingly rare that I have time on my own, time to think. I have a Twitter account and several blogs to maintain, plus my Facebook status updates, my photo diary, my video blogs and my podcast that I have to record. And that's the content that I create. There's also the content that I consume, not least of which are the emails...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...Data (OECD, 2005). This definition comes from a wider tradition of research into the measurement of innovation. It is used by organisations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) to inform innovation policy. This sets out four main types of innovation (OECD, 2005): Product innovation...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...data was collected Analysis Examines the situation in great detail using the SWOT categories Four sections or paragraphs under the following headings: strengths weaknesses opportunities threats Conclusion Describes what the study has shown Paragraph briefly summarising the findings, i.e. the content of the analysis and highlighting the key factors Recommendations Suggests...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...data from 1960 to present, from the International Seismological Centre. The colour bar shows the corresponding depth on the image. Activity 2 Geographical distribution Looking at Figure 7, try to describe the main patterns of the geographical distribution of earthquakes. Consider also which surface features on the Earth appear to have (i) shallow, and (ii) deep...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...data suggests that people who are more resilient are more likely to recognise happy faces and less likely to recognise sad or fearful faces. We’ve also shown that people, exactly in line with what we hypothesise, the more resilient somebody is, the better they remember positive words and positive pictures. Geoff Watts: In the last few decades more and more hopes have...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs