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Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...system. Gauguin’s paintings are complex, being on the one hand highly sophisticated and self-conscious examples of an avant-garde rejection of the conventions of bourgeois taste, and on the other seeking out ‘authentic’ effects according to the discourse of ‘primitivism’, which was beginning to be influential among artists tired of the superficial sophistication...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...system. They have a skeleton of calcium carbonate, silica, or, as in some bath sponges, horny organic material. Water passes in through the sponge's many surface pores, often to the central cavity of a sack-like body, and out through a large hole at the top. Some have a stalk (Figure 1a), others are encrusting and irregular in shape. Sponges feed by filtering off minute...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...systems. I So if I had to put you on the spot and give you a statement and just to see whether you would go along with it, so would you say that the future was and if not what is it? CS Oh no. I don't believe in a single future. I think can make a component, you know. I believe we could get 30% of our transportation fuels from biomass so it maybe in 25 years roughly 6% of...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...system d. Organisational culture can affect employees’ love of the organisation via influencing organisational myth and ritual. a. a. Organisational culture is a mechanism to shape employees’ attitudes and values which ‘fit’ with the espoused ideals of an organisation b. b. The underlying assumptions of organisational culture define organisational membership c. c....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Cefnogi datblygiad plant
Education & Development

Cefnogi datblygiad plant

...system rheoli dysgu arall. Er y gallwch ddefnyddio'r fformatau amgen all-lein er cyfleustra i chi, bydd angen i chi weithio drwy'r fersiwn ar-lein o'r cwrs er mwyn sicrhau ymarferoldeb llawn (fel defnyddio dolenni, defnyddio'r deunyddiau sain a fideo, a chwblhau'r cwisiau). Defnyddiwch y lawrlwythiadau fel adnoddau cyfleus ar gyfer astudio'r deunyddiau pan na fyddwch ar y...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...system rather than accessing services designed around their needs. Designing services around individual needs is commonly referred to as person-centred care. As well as becoming centred on the needs of children and young people, services need much better coordination so that it is clear what is available and how to access it. In 2018, the CQC recommended: joint action...
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...systems: in theory, what kind of engineering solution would work best? Then he met a Dutch researcher who had come across stalled plans to try to use cockroaches to detect TNT exuding from buried landmines. “I thought, yes – this was the way forward: using local resources, a solution based on what was available in the context. This was for me an a-ha moment.” Except...
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...system. There are pockets of excellence that we should all be very proud of. How do we really diffuse that innovation? How do we copy it from one area and transplant it into another area? We need the front line staff, the 1.3 million people who work in the NHS, to have access to that evidence base. ON SCREEN: “33,000 fewer deaths from cardiovascular in people under 75...