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‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...writing (2008), at least 1000 people are known to have died, while the final death figure may never be known. The estimated costs of damage range from US$100bn to US$200bn (Gotham, 2007, p. 81). [Figure 2 Map showing extent of flooding in New Orleans, 11 September 2005] Copyright © Greater New Orleans Community Data Center http://www.gnocdc.org © Copyright © Greater...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...writes that: ‘it appears that our only choices are to abide by the arbitrary verdicts of history or war, or to appeal on an ad hoc basis to other principles, none of which commands general respect’ (Whelan, 1983, p. 16). Nevertheless, vigorous debate continues. Let's map some of the approaches theorists have taken. Consider a country we can call ‘Y’, which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...writing in one thing about Fairview in each column. One thing they do that helps to nurture trust, one way in which they purposefully focus on relationships, and one aspect of the environment that helps relationships to flourish. Video 4 Fairview House case study Fairview House Fairview House is in an English market town on the Scottish borders and has around 40...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...write a summary of no more than 200 words based on the material that you have just read, or simply try to build a list of all the terms and definitions that you believe inform your understanding of a relationship between equity and capitalism. Once you have written a summary or compiled a list you can simply cut and paste the text into a word cloud creator: TagCrowd...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...write down the dissolved substances it contains, with their concentrations (EU regulations require bottled waters to give this on their labels). b.Compare your list with the EU drinking water standards in Table 4. Does your bottled water exceed the EU guide values or maximum acceptable concentrations for any dissolved substance in drinking water? Answer Table 4b...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...writes: I will say at the outset that I think R v T is an inept judicial opinion that creates bad law. The opinion went awry because the justices who wrote it misunderstood a key aspect of the evidence they were evaluating. The justices sought to achieve laudable goals, but their misunderstanding of basic principles of inductive logic, and particularly Bayes’ theorem,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...writing better regulation that is a bit more commercial. Within financial services especially, we've seen recent regulation that actually can be used to commercially make firms more efficient. So if we take GDPR as an example, on the face of it, it's a really annoying piece of regulation, because you now have to think about privacy and the way that you organise your data,...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...Writing Service. Available at http://www.chuckthewriter.com/vdisc.html (Accessed 12 August 2014). Picker, M. (ed.) (1965) The Chanson Albums of Marguerite of Austria. MSS 228 and 11239 of the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, University of California Press. Picker, M. (1999), ‘Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 228’, in Kellman,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs