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Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...based programme that allows antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance data from different countries to be compared. Study Figures 6a and 6b which compare cephalosporin use from 2000 to 2015 in the UK and South Africa. Then answer the following questions. a.How did cephalosporin use change over time in each country? b.Which country had the lowest consumption of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...based analysis tool for simulating and analysing engineering products and systems. FEA is an extremely potent engineering design utility, but one that should be used with great care. For example, it is possible to integrate a system with computer-aided design software, leading to a type of uninformed push-button analysis in the design process. Unfortunately, colossal...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...based’ approach, in which doctors used rigorous clinical research, rather than intuition or anecdote, to determine the best way to care for a patient. But this new emphasis on evidence, Lyerly noticed, didn’t seem to apply to the treatment of pregnant women. “It was well-known that we prescribed medications without a lot of good data about their safety or the right...
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Article 15 mins
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...based in the UK, explore one of the UK nations which interests you. Choose one of these documents and read the introduction. Fill in the table below. Where you are prompted to provide a full reference of the document you have found, use the title and URL / web address. Identify what kind of resource it is (e.g. if it’s a report, you need to go to the ‘report’...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...based on secular, rather than religious, views; science alone should define what we mean by death. The problem is that the scientific definition of ‘death’ remains as unresolved as the definition of ‘consciousness’. Much confusion is sowed by the term ‘clinical death’, the cessation of blood circulation and breathing. Even though this is reversible, the term...
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Article 15 mins
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...based in northern English cities, accounting for a very high proportion of acclaimed new books. The day when one major Scottish writer, Hugh MacDiarmid, languished out of print for years on end, and another, Edwin Muir, relied on the recognition of his quality by T.S. Eliot at Faber, were clearly over. The power of the ‘metropolis’ in British poetry had significantly...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...base of the pharynx are two openings: One leads to the larynx (which contains the voice box and Adam’s apple), from which air passes into the trachea or windpipe, a hollow tube kept permanently open by rings of cartilage (Figure 2). The other opening is to the entrance of the oesophagus, near the beginning of the digestive tract. Food is normally prevented from getting...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...de la Plata football was also flourishing in Uruguay. Clare Balding As in Argentina the game of football had been brought to Uruguay by British teachers and schoolboys, and again its popularity took off. The Olympics of 1924 and ‘28 were won by Uruguay with Argentina finishing runners up. And the first World Cup held in Uruguay was won by the hosts beating their...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs