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10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...de-regulated online currency; but TripAdvisor and social recommendations - and the implications, both positive and negative, for all types of businesses - seem to be sticking around for the long term. Wearable technology is one of the big developments at the moment, but will it translate to the mainstream or stay strictly for the geeky gadget- fan niche? Apps are booming...
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Article 5 mins
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...de Clifford, who suffered death with his party chief, the Earl of Lancaster, when Edward of York took the city, and it is mainly memorable as the refuge of the Jews whom the Christians had harried out of their homes. They had grown in numbers and riches, when the Jew-hate of 1190 broke out in England, as from time to time the Jew-hate breaks out in Russia now, to much the...
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Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...prompt and support conversations with people with learning disabilities who are getting older. Watch the following video that explains how to use the cards: How to use the planning ahead cards for people with learning disabilities Now spend a few minutes reviewing the cards: Online version Finally, make some notes in your ‘Tips’ about how you might use these cards to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introduction to complex analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to complex analysis

...concept of partial differentiation for real functions of two real variables, and use it to establish a relationship between complex differentiation and real differentiation. This relationship sometimes enables us to differentiate a complex function using real derivatives. Indeed, at the end of the section, this approach will be used to show that the complex exponential...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...concept of deserts is based on the extreme Sahara, where huge areas of sand dunes support little, if any, plant growth. Certain animals such as camels (Camelus spp.; Figure 3), Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas; Figure 4) and oryx (Figure 5) that survive there by browsing on the sparse plant life and drinking very little or no free water, are regarded as typical desert...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...concept. For Sessions 1, 2 and 3, you will only focus on the “financial” aspect of your wellbeing. There is substantial literature that highlights the positive relationship between financial and other aspects of wellbeing. For a brief overview by the NHS, you may check the relationship between financial worries and mental health. Citizens Advice – cost of living...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...concept of a segmented labour market has been applied in a variety of ways. Analyses differ in the outcomes of interest (pay, employment stability or mobility), in the delineation of segments (by job, industry, gender, race or age) and in the methodology of investigation, whether qualitative or econometric (McNabb and Ryan, 1990). There is, however, a consensus among...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...concepts, scientific principles and language relating to meteorology and weather forecasting, in particular the techniques used to gather meteorological data receive and respond to information presented in a variety of ways, including text, tables, graphs, diagrams, computer-based multimedia and websites begin to understand how to develop personal learning
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs