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Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...change things, now that you are probably getting a better feel for the kind of notes you wish to make and how much space they take up. Discussion We can gain a lot from thinking back over things by ourselves. It is also valuable, at least occasionally, to think about other points of view or perspectives. One way of doing this is by getting feedback from others...Week 4:...
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...changing the signal so that the communication channel can be used more economically or more efficiently; or it might mean processing a signal so that it can be sampled satisfactorily in an analogue-to-digital converter. What is filtering? In the context of electronic signals, filtering means altering the signal so that some aspects of the signal are removed while other...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...changes in the way that families function in recent years, in particular to living arrangements in the developed world. The family unit now takes many different forms to the 20th century Western society construct of two parents and two children living in the family home. Celia Brackenridge (2006) acknowledges these changes in her definition of the term ‘parent’:...
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...climate, in our culture, and in our country. And that has a part to play with children and young people. But very much, it's about relationships. The family unit is not the same. The community cohesion is not necessarily the same. So in terms of that mentoring role, that supportive role, we often consider children and young people within concentric circles. And we don't...
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...changing him, she found herself unable to stop herself from shouting at him the things which the voice had uttered. She woke up the next morning with a bad cold, which she used as an excuse to take time off work. She has not been to work for the past two weeks, only leaving the flat briefly to run small errands. She has not told anybody about hearing the voice and has...
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...changes in the weather. It is hard to imagine that forecasting success rates were high for more than a few hours ahead, so military discipline and scientific curiosity may have been essential for keeping the observation networks going in the early days. In addition to supplying data for forecasting, records of past weather are an important input into
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...changing voltage, but other properties can change in this way, such as current, power, pressure, and so on. [Described image] Figure 1 A sinusoidal signal A sinusoid is an example of a periodic signal. It repeats at regular time intervals. Any non-sinusoidal periodic signal can be regarded as a sum of sinusoids. A section of a periodic signal between two consecutive...
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...change (43 BCE–17/18 CE). Rome was transforming from a republic into a new system – an empire – under the control of one man, the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Against this backdrop, it makes sense that the main thread of the Metamorphoses should not be the story of a brave hero or a great queen or the foundation of a city, but transformation itself. The poem is...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs