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A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial
History & The Arts

A visit to Ada Lovelace's memorial

...de Grentmesnil held the lordship. Afterwards, the Mallories became its owners, and as there were other Kirbys and Kirkbys (both names being identical in origin) this Kirkby was known from the others as Kirkby Mallory. The family of this name was seated here from the reign of Henry the Third until that of Edward the Third, during five or six generations. The last of his...
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The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...based on de Broglie's idea that matter has a wave-like aspect. Schrödinger himself soon showed that his approach was mathematically equivalent to that of Heisenberg, but he too had difficulty working out what it all meant. The key step in the interpretation of quantum mechanics was first put into print by Born in June 1926. Imagine that you could arrange a collision...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...based on interviews conducted between May and December 2020.) Activity 1 Crime statistics Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes How do these crime statistics help plan policing capacity? What are their limits of how they help? Discussion The crime statistics can act as a guide to what crimes police deal with and the skill sets needed within forces to deal with those...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...based diets could sustain the global human population from half the agricultural land currently in use (Chai et al., 2019). In terms of water, ‘livestock’ farming often depends on irrigation using finite fresh water supplies. Animal-protein production has been calculated to use more than four times as much water as the most intensively-irrigated plant-based protein...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...based on observing people in sport and fitness environments, some on observing people in sport and exercise environments and some on observing how people behave generally...Motivation and factors affecting motivation: 2 Understanding motivation - Motivation underlies all aspects of human behaviour and can help to explain why people do what they do. At times, though, it...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...based in a range of jurisdictions with different legal processes. As a result, while the fictional case is based in England, the course is not intended to be an accurate portrayal of all legal processes and rules within England and Wales...Week 1: Introduction to the case: 1.1 Meet the psychological team - This course was written by two academic psychologists, Zoë...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...basing it on? Are you taking account of external factors such as the time you have or the circumstances in which you study? Are you basing your judgement on your own evaluation of your intellectual capacities? Do energy, enthusiasm and commitment come into the evaluation? The activity you have just engaged in is the first of several such activities. It is an example of a...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...based on Gigabit Ethernet standards. The material that follows refers to the IEEE 802.3 standard, 2002 edition. The Gigabit Ethernet standards describe the use of fibre in all three categories identified in the last section. Two different versions of 50/125 μm multimode fibres are specified, differing in their bandwidth. Here I am talking about the version with a...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs