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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...writing. Notice that in Figure 4 the direct carbon footprint of households (the bottom two sections of each bar) from home heating and car driving is relatively small. This is because this breakdown uses the footprint boundaries mentioned earlier, in which household electricity for lighting and appliances, travel by public transport and holiday flights are considered as...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...Write some notes explaining why traditional cost and management accounting systems may not provide adequate support for customer relationship marketing and what the likely adverse consequences of this failure might be. Discussion Customer relationship marketing (CRM) requires knowledge/understanding of customer profitability, rather than just turnover/revenue, since the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...writing this technology is under development in Norway as a possible solution to the similar problem of fjord crossings needed for the coastal highway project. [Described image] Figure 21 An artist’s impression of a proposed floating tunnel for Norway A floating tunnel may be held up by its own buoyancy and anchored to the sea bed, or it may have negative buoyancy (i.e....
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...write training plans I’m looking what can I get rid of. You know, how few of things can we do. (Pfaff, 2012) It is debatable whether athletes who choose to put in more sessions are doing so due to individual ambition, which is reinforced by sport training culture. However, a shift in ethos to ‘less is more’ and ‘recovery is training’ would clearly help many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...writing). AIDS-related deaths fell from 2 million in 2008 to 1.8 million in 2010 due to the expansion of access to effective antiretroviral therapy. One outcome of this success is that HIV prevalence (the number of people living with HIV infection) is steadily increasing – to 34 million in 2010. Just over 2 million of those people were children under 15 years infected...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)
Languages

Cànan nan Gàidheal (Gaelic language)

...writing’: smaoinich air ‘scribe’ no ‘scribble’ *4 ‘Litir’ = ‘a letter’: Chan eil leithid ‘a’ no ‘an’ anns a’ Ghàidhlig...Cànan nan Gàidheal: 5.2.2 Fuaimean agus litrichean - Faodaidh fuaimreagan a bhith goirid no fada sa Ghàidhlig. Tha sràc air an fheadhainn fhada, me: bata bàta Faodaidh dà fhuaim a bhith aig connragan cuideachd – mar...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...write your hypothesis in your notes. (Hint: remember that a hypothesis is a statement (not a question) proposing an explanation for an observation as a starting point for further investigation.) Then compare your hypothesis with ours below. Answer Your wording may be a little different to ours but it should capture the same point: ‘Exposure to cowpox infection will...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...writing is provided by Körtner and Geiser (2000). Torpor is best defined as entry of the whole animal into a state of hypothermia which is accompanied by behavioural inactivity, regulated by a combination of external and internal signals. Hibernation is defined as a sustained and profound state of torpor, entry to and exit from which is governed by internal signals...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs