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Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...et al., 2012). Some scholars claim that religion is becoming more private or privatised as a result of our consumer society, in which the individual practitioner is encouraged to customise their spiritual experience by picking and mixing elements that make sense to them, rather than follow a religious path or belong to one religious community. So, what kind of religious...
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...Institute. Available at http://column.global-labour-university.org/ 2012/ 08/ t-shirt-economics-labour-in-imperialist.html (Accessed 24 April 2019). Masum, M. (2016) ‘The Bangladesh textile-clothing industry: a demand-supply review’, 社会システム研究, 33, pp. 109–39. Rieple, A. and Singh, R. (2010) ‘A value chain analysis of the organic cotton industry: the...
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...Institution, or where words are very similar in spelling and pronunciation, as in Wein, Glas, Haus, Lampe, trinken. However, there are also many other cultural parallels which can help you understand written German. Using the example of the wine label you will see that wine labels are very similar in German speaking countries and many other countries, with the items...
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer arwain

...et al. (2022), bydd diwylliant hybrid yn gweithio dim ond os ydych chi’n trin pawb fel eu bod yn gweithio o bell. Mae hyn yn sicrhau bod pawb yn cael yr un wybodaeth, adnoddau a chyfleoedd i lwyddo, ac nid yw’n wahanol yn ôl lle maent yn eistedd a pha un ai a ydynt yn gweithio wrth ddesg yn y swyddfa, yn gweithio wrth sawl gweithfan mewn ardal gydweithio, neu...
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...Institute Figure 13: Damian Peach; www.damianpeach.com Figure 14: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute - Original file from JPL Photojournal. Additional editing by Kaldari (seams removed, distortion corrected, missing corner extrapolated)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/ index.php?curid=6983094 Figure 16:
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...et al., 1999, p.52.) Activity 2 Let's try looking at an example of reading statistical evidence. There has been a great deal of discussion in recent years about changes in our patterns of travel, because of concern about car use and its impact upon the environment. What does the table reproduced below tell us about car use? Can you detect any patterns or trends over time?...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...et al., 2017) so when we look at decisions such as numbers of police needed we are missing most of the workload. Thirdly, it does not usually tell us when or where officers are needed. The next section looks at an alternative way of understanding patterns in crime...Capacity and demand management: 2 Crime pattern theory - Criminologists can look at why crimes occur and...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...et al (eds) (2004) Designing a More Inclusive World, Springer-Verlag. Myerson, J. (2001) IDEO: Masters of Innovation, New York, te Neues Publishing Company. Noyes, J. (2001) Designing for Humans (Psychology at Work), Psychology Press. Papanek, V. (1983) Design for Human Scale, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold. Ulrich, K. T. and Eppinger, S. D. (1995) Product Design and...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs