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Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...analysis. In so doing he contributed to the ongoing debate on the French Revolution and the changing nature of British society and politics. A Practical View can usefully be compared here with another work that gave considerable prominence to religion in the aftermath of 1789, Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). To Burke the revolutionary...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...analysis of the peculiar arterial patterns of the extremities in Lorisidae: the rete mirabile, Primatology Today, Elsevier Science; Figure 5 (b): Suckling, J. A., Suckling, E. E. and Walker, A. (1969) Suggested function of the vascular bundles in the limbs of Perodictus potto, Nature, vol. 221, January 25 1969. With permission of Nature (http://www.nature.com) Figure 5...
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...analysis of representational notions (meaning and mental content) into, ultimately, properties belonging to the natural sciences Everything recounted so far is more or less resonant with Grice's position as it is manifested in his 1957 paper. But if the Gricean Programme stopped here it would be incomplete. For what, in scientific terms, is mental content? The final piece...
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...analysis of the verb groups used in the passage provides a different perspective. The Warlpiri are often referred to as being affected by events rather than as agents (e.g. a severe drought forced [them] from the desert). Where the actions of the Warlpiri are referred to using active verb forms, the choices made convey a sense that their agency is limited (e.g. they tried...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...analysis to infer how likely it was that a particular company polluted a river. [Described image] Figure 5 (a) skid marks; (b) medical evidence; (c) chemical analysis However, when making findings of fact, the fact-finder also has to follow legal rules contained in common-law cases and parliamentary statutes. For example, in the previous section on everyday fact-finding,...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...analysis of marketing opportunities, researching the market, deciding which segments to focus on and so on. From this perspective, marketing represents a structured and standardised approach to marketing management. Marketing as a philosophy Marketing as a philosophy does not necessarily view marketing as a process but as a collection of underlying theories or principles....
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...data. So we can start seeing if there's any trends, as if they do pick up an injury, is it related to any sort of common features of how we load them and try and avoid that in the future? JACQUES BURGER The game of rugby, is it brutal on the body? I think it kind of feels like you've been in a car accident every weekend. Your body is just wrecked for two days off. And I...
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...data sets – one with n = 10 elements and another with n = 100 elements. The run-time of one algorithm scales as n3 and the run-time of another algorithm scales as en. How do the run-times of the two algorithms compare for the smaller data set? How do the run-times compare for the larger data set? Answer For the smaller data set, the run-times for the two algorithms are...