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The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...architectures of planetary systems...The formation of exoplanets: 3.1 Forming giant planets via core accretion - Once the mass of a planetary core reaches a few Earth masses, it starts to build up a gas envelope. This process can lead to a variety of outcomes because, as seen in Activity 5, the speed at which a core grows and its final mass depend on where in the disc it...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...architecture through the use of automatically generated images and layouts. Figure 4 looks like it was drawn by hand, but it was actually generated by artificial intelligence (AI) via the software tool Adobe Firefly. It was created using the text prompt: ‘What does algorithmic design look like?’. Acquiring an understanding of the logics and principles of algorithms...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...Architecture for the Internet Protocol, Kent, S., Atkinson, R. Schneier, B. (1996) Applied Cryptography, 2nd edn, Wiley. Stallings, W (1999) Cryptography and Network Security, Prentice Hall. Stallings, W (2001) SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3, and RMON 1 and 2, 3rd edn, Addison Wesley. Further reading Anderson, R. (2001) Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...architecture of the body with that of a house: And just as architects relegate the drains of houses to the rear, away from the eyes and nose of the masters, since otherwise they would inevitably be somewhat offensive, so nature has banished the corresponding organs of the body far away from the neighbourhood of the senses. (2.56.141) Did the reality of life in the ancient...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...architecture, are a million miles away from what is usable for the citizen. So that’s a challenge. Now at this stage do I despair? I don’t actually. I’m really, really optimistic. I’m really optimistic that the law and your experience of the law could get and will get is about to get much, much better. And we’re kind of calling this good law. First rule of good...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...architecture school in Baghdad. He is a lousy email writer; you just don't expect any answers from him. […]. So instead of writing emails and then having to dig them up later it would all be there on the blog. So Where is Raed? started. […] The first reckless thing I did was to put the blog address in a blog indexing site under Iraq. I did this after I spent a couple...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...architecture and engaged in that field for five years and received a degree in it. At the end of those five years I was permitted to take some electives for the first time and I chose the electives in the philosophy of science, and that became a major interest to me. When I graduated in architecture I had a fellowship to continue graduate work in the field, but the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...architecture, canals, railway lines, telegraphs, etc. The prevailing political, economic, or social order, especially regarded as oppressive; the Establishment; any impersonal, restrictive organisation, with reference to business and social organisations and the operations or interactions they involve. OED (2013) These relate to systems that we can look at and see. But...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs