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Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...data. “That’s the interesting challenge with infants,” says Smith. “They’re completely non-compliant to instructions.” What about the educational potential of devices? There are thousands of apps, e-books and videos purporting to have educational value for children, yet very few have been able to support this claim with solid research. “The app marketplace...
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Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...data here seem pretty clear.” Additional support for this comes from a highly influential 2000 paper, by a team lead by Professor Shelley Taylor at UCLA, that looked at bio-behavioural responses to stress. They found that while men tend to exhibit the well-known ‘fight or flight’ response, women are more likely to use ‘tend and befriend’. “Although women might...
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Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...data, statistics and graphs. Activity 8 Read the case study in Worksheet 4. Jack evaluates his voluntary experience and what action was taken, by using a STARE grid and ‘action words’ (see also Worksheet 5 in Section 6). Try completing the blank grid provided in Worksheet 4 using examples of your own activities to demonstrate your skills and how you acquired them. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...analysis of the market. The necessity to counter action by competitors. (The explosion in the range of kettles and their different features since the introduction of the first jug kettle exemplifies the response of an old, established industry under siege from new competition; once one manufacturer has introduced such a product the others must follow suit or risk being...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...analysis of the thickness of insulation required to meet a specified U-value will require some detailed calculations. The earlier discussion of the basics of U-values only considered the thermal resistance of a single slab of a building material. In any practical building element there will be extra thermal resistances, particularly those of the thin layers of air...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...analysis of this was that the fact that these were non-renewable was not the point; it was the fact that we couldn’t absorb the pollutants that they generated. So I first got interested in energy as a thermodynamic problem and the thermodynamics underpinned the whole of our economies. Our economies basically run on the laws of thermodynamics because the whole of the...
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Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...analysis? Make notes on what you have read. Answer Discussion Figure 7.1 of the report in Activity 2 provides an effective image of the division of types ofland used in the calculations. It shows the main components of the EF, simplified into 'biodiversity', 'built land', 'energy land', 'bioproductive sea' and 'bioproductive land'. A city's EF is enormously larger than...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...analysis from this perspective aids a critique of how rights are constructed. It allows us to question the bases from which rights are created and protected. If rights are about ensuring health and well-being while minimising pain and suffering, then humans are not the only species to experience such emotions...Criminology beyond crime: Conclusion - The concept of social...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs