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Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...Writing in support of using the notion of wellbeing in public policy, Hetan Shah has argued that ‘an incredible amount is spent on our “health” service, but most of it focuses on dealing with physical symptoms of sickness’ and that ‘we need to reconfigure the purpose of the system in order to promote wellbeing’ (Shah, 2005, p. 39). Other writers have argued...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...writing g super prime of t equals two times t full stop You should now be ready to see some more examples of finding formulas for the gradients of graphs – that is, formulas for derivatives. We’ll begin by setting out the general method that can be used to find such formulas. This is just the algebraic method that you saw in Section 1.3, where the formula for the...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...writing of fiction or the production of a film or piece of visual art. Figure 10 Gay marriage advocates demonstrate in front of the US courthouse in Norfolk, Virginia, 2014 Given the example you just worked through, you might be tempted to think that politics (whether broadly or narrowly defined) is all about critically engaging with or challenging the status quo – the...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...writing open-ended fieldnotes in which what is observed is written down in plain and concrete language, and/or through audio- or video-recordings that are subsequently transcribed. Data from interviews that are relatively unstructured, in other words that do not involve asking a set of pre-specified questions, even less offering informants a choice from pre-specified...
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...writing, state-of-the-art commercial systems operate at up to 40 Gbaud) or by effects in the fibre that cause pulses to spread as they propagate along the fibre. Pulse spreading limits the maximum signalling rate because the more that pulses spread the more inter-symbol interference (ISI) you can get, and so the further apart in time symbols must be to prevent them...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...writing this course in 2019-2020, research into ADHD in adults is still in its relatively early stages and therefore it is difficult to draw firm conclusions about this cohort. However, for children and adolescents, much more extensive research has been carried out. The data suggest that prevalence rates of the condition for this age group vary across the world as shown...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...Write a couple of sentences as to why, in your view, the slideshow presents an example of international relations? There’s no single correct answer to this first question, so just write a couple of sentences to summarise your initial thoughts. Discussion You might have noted the involvement of multiple states (countries); the way issues like trade and investment reach...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: © Alan Cayless Every effort has been made to contact copyright...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs