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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...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 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
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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