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Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...de-emphasizing their individual sufferings and deaths’ (Dunayer, 2004, p. xii). The disciplining of nonhuman bodies in the AIC is resisted in the ways in which ‘livestock’ express their distress at confinement, pain and overcrowding, or the ways in which fishes attempt to evade or escape capture (Wadiwel, 2015). Some of the harms documented in Section 2.1 are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...class’ ‘They won't let me in their group’ ‘Keep it in the family’ ‘Within the terms of reference’ ‘An outsider’ ‘Exclusive restaurant’ ‘In time’ ‘In washing the window, I cracked it.’ ‘There are lots of houses in London’ ‘In love’ ‘Let out your bottled up anger’ ‘Fall into a depression’ ‘I put a lot of energy into this’...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...class. James dropped from the top of his class to the bottom. Their middle child developed behavioural issues. CLARE JENNINGS I think in the last couple of years, we've seen more families who have experienced street homelessness, where the local authority have concluded that the children aren't in need because they don't think the parents are credible. It's moved so far...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...classed as non-conventional: deep-water oil, polar oil and natural gas liquids. Oil sands [Described image] Figure 10 An aerial view of oil-sand mining at Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada showing the huge scale of the extraction process. Oil sands (also known as tar sands) are formed when oil flows into near-surface sands from deeper underground reservoirs. Exposure of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...class. This is the group of scores 80–89. It is not possible to find the precise value of the median from the frequency distribution or histogram. The best you can do is to identify the group that contains the median by adding up the frequencies of each of the groups until you have included the 15th and 16th score. The total of the first four groups is 11 and for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...classes of LTI (linear time-invariant) digital filter: the finite impulse response (FIR) filter and the infinite impulse response (IIR) filter. An IIR filter requires fewer computations to achieve the same performance as an FIR filter, so has a speed advantage. However, an IIR can have stability issues and also non-linear phase issues (where signals of different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...classed as a customer – so the category covers a wide range of people. Understanding their behaviour can make us more effective in keeping them satisfied, with possible benefits for us in return. We all act as customers ourselves, so studying theories of customer behaviour can help us understand ourselves and make better choices in the future. We can gain valuable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...class of malware known as ‘worms’. As you saw in Activity 2, these are stand-alone, self-replicating programs that spread through network connections, accessing uninfected machines and then hijacking their resources to transmit yet more copies across the network. Similar to a typical malware worm, WannaCry contains an infection module and a ‘payload’. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs