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England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...changed the country’s linguistic and cultural character, and defined our very identity. As such, the places where these clashes of arms took place are contested spaces whose meaning and significance – and even their location – is hotly debated and, even today, fought over. While the swords, arrows and guns of the past have been replaced by academic debate and...
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Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...change, and the two mechanisms often ascribed to family firms relate to lower levels of skill (here, here and here) and lack of awareness of managerial underperformance (here, here and here). Neither of these mechanisms, however, fully explain the gap in management underperformance. We propose a different possibility based on the wealth of evidence that suggests family...
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Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...changing fast. The driving force for producing Dolly was not to produce genetically identical animals. Rather researchers want to combine cloning techniques with other methods in order to efficiently change animals genetically – much quicker than traditional animal breeding methods that take decades to make changes in populations of species such as cattle. One recent...
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Listening to content aloud
Digital & Computing

Listening to content aloud

...Change the reading speed to quicker or slower. Change the voice you hear, some text readers sound more natural than others and many even have different accents to choose from! Screen readers It’s worth noting that you might hear of software called a screen reader. There’s a big difference between these and text readers. Text readers generally read only the text on a...
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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...change over the past fifty years or so. Far reaching social, economic, cultural and political change has led to significant shifts in the gender composition of the labour force and in sections of the economy. Further, a shift in the balance of workplace power towards owners and managers, and an increasing and widening pattern of disputes in the public sector in Scotland...
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Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...changing the way that children form relationships? How is technology changing the way that children think, and how will it shape education as children begin to take up schooling again? This exciting new free course pulls together the latest evidence from experts in the field to explore these and other questions. Join us as we delve into the lives of children and discuss...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...changes that have occurred. Note that the virtual microscope tool will work in all modern browsers on desktop computers, laptops and tablet devices. However, we recommend completing the course on a desktop computer or laptop for better viewing of the sections and to enable integration of microscopy with the course text, images and video in separate windows...Week 1:...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...change. In Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 4, A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing, Buschmann et al. (2007) cite the following quote from Booch (2007, p. 214) which emphasises that design and architecture cannot be divorced from one another: All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs