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Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...simple. The variability in the characteristics listed in Table 1 coupled with the interaction of these characteristics with other disturbances as well as climate, make fire regimes one of the most complex processes governing landscape dynamics and controlling biodiversity. Although there are several characteristics that define a fire regime, they are most often described...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...simple. It is the attempt to transform processes and products to improve their worth and benefit to organisational stakeholders. However, within this comparatively straightforward definition, there is much variation in practice. Concretely achieving this shared goal requires an understanding of the various parts of the organisation, as well as being open to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...simple, and mostly mimic natural processes. Not all treatment works use all the treatment stages — some plants provide only preliminary and primary treatment, and tertiary treatment is relatively rare. The processes are summarised in Figure 18 and amplified below: Preliminary treatment: This is the mechanical removal of coarse and fine solid material. The sewage passes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...simple group rules. Some of those might be about conforming to institutional requirements, about things ike copyright collusion etc. and obviously those should always be part of your group policies. Some will be about following your institution’s social media policy, and obviously there’s general things about just being decent human beings to each other. But don’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...simple family men who have arrived in France must be transformed into a collective fighting machine, and he must achieve this end through oratory. In the first scene of the play the Archbishop of Canterbury has extolled the King's rhetorical skill; here we have a chance to witness it for ourselves. Activity 6 Using the annotations in our example to help you, pick out some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...simple choice between adopting one of two alternative positions and that the debate about which paradigms should underpin research remain...Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth: 3.6 So, is there a resolution to the paradigm wars? - Despite the paradigm wars, as Gage (2007) predicted, no one paradigm has ‘won’ and the influence of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...simple-seeming expression of an extraordinarily complex combination of thought and emotion. The ‘dogs and wolves’ are the speaker's ‘unwritten poems’. Why ‘unwritten’? One infers that other matters take priority over love poems. But – ‘unwritten’ – their latent presence assumes nightmarish form, as if the frustration of being unwritten makes them...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...simple as a brick wall. It might be something that’s more sympathetic to maybe a historic environment. So concrete, but faced with local stone, sandstone or something like that. It might be a natural flood measure. So you might go kind of further up the river and speak to farmers and landowners, and see what they can do about their land management to make sure that you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs