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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...Les Sables-d’Olonne in France, which sits at 46.49 degrees north. On the outward portion of the race the sailors made their way south across the Bay of Biscay, down the Atlantic Ocean and crossing the equator, before rounding the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa at 34.36 degrees south (Figure 4). On this outward Atlantic leg, once the sailors left the...
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Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...Le Verrier and Adams in the nineteenth century? b.What do the paper’s authors think can be learned from the history of particle physics? c.Do the authors think there is strong evidence that a paradigm shift to a new cosmological model is needed? Discussion a.It was observed that the orbit of Uranus appeared inconsistent with Newtonian gravity. Bessel postulated that a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...verbs as well … contemporary Javanese now includes words for the process of recording onto a commercial cassette: Gendhing kuwi wis dikasètké (That piece has already been recorded on commercial cassette’ – i.e. there is an objectified ‘text’ which can be referred to like a publication). […] One of my gamelan teachers once explained to me that he preferred to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...verbs, the activities, I am drawing your attention to are being, engaging, contextualising, and managing. The remainder of the unit is structured around these four balls being juggled by a systems practitioner...Managing complexity: a systems approach – introduction: 1.1 Making sense of the metaphor - The metaphor of the juggler keeping the four balls in the air is a...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Felly, rydych chi eisiau bod yn nyrs? Cyflwyniad byr i nyrsio
Health, Sports & Psychology

Felly, rydych chi eisiau bod yn nyrs? Cyflwyniad byr i nyrsio

...le yn y byd. Byddwch yn dysgu am bedwar maes nyrsio yn y DU, sut beth yw hyfforddiant nyrsys, yn ogystal â beth sy’n gwneud nyrsys gwych. Mae’r cwrs hwn yn cynnig cyflwyniad byr i’r proffesiwn nyrsio a gall eich helpu i benderfynu ai nyrsio yw’r yrfa iawn i chi...Mae’r cwrs yma am ddim, Felly, rydych chi eisiau bod yn nyrs? Cyflwyniad byr i nyrsio, yn rhoi...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...Le Trio Joubran playing an ‘ūd, a short-necked lute (guitar-like instrument) whose strings are plucked Comparing Example 11 with Example 10 reveals that the ‘ūd player is using notes from Set 2, the group of notes containing B half flat. However, several of these notes are in a lower octave than in Example 10. You will need to count down several ledger lines to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...Le Dealabhan/A Gaelic Dictionary, underlining the aesthetic as well as linguistic links between the two works. The ‘F’ of ‘Faclair’ is closely related to the ‘F’ of ‘Failt’ on page 108 of volume one of Carmina Gadelica. Figure 37 The title page of the first edition of Dwelly’s Gaelic Dictionary Thus by the early years of the 20th century there was great...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...Le Tentation de Saint Antoine, which he read twice and declared to be ‘splendid’ (UK RED: 17758), Théophile Gautier’s Le Capitaine Fracasse - read in the evening in front of the dining room fire (UK RED: 17784) - and Alexandre Dumas’ Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (UK RED: 13546). He also read non-fictional French prose such as Michel de Montaigne’s Essais, which he...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr