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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...based therapies as a result." The Arguments: Michael West [Michael West] Dr Michael West is president and chief executive officer of Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (ACT), a biotechnology company based in the USA. ACT is a company engaged in the research and development of technologies enabling the genetic manipulation of cells to produce transgenic animals for...
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Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...bases of natural history filmmaking because you capture your image with an optical device, a pair of binoculars, you arrange the image with an editing device or tweezers and then you display your image in a jam jar or perhaps through a television screen. And that early experience of seeing those wild animals when I was a boy of eight or nine, I think, pretty much set my...
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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...base of the population pyramid. The OpenLearn article “How fertility rates affect population” provides a guide to using an interactive population pyramid chart for the UK published by the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS). The pyramid allows you to explore the effects of different fertility rates on population pyramid models. Animating population pyramids can be...
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Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...based on one or maybe two quite short musical ideas, maybe a theme or a rhythmic idea or something like that, and I suppose at its best it becomes a development of that, and at its worst I suppose it's a series of repeats of the same idea without really developing it. Trevor Herbert Right George, at this point I think we have to come clean and own up to the fact that I've...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...based on the same two events, namely: equal numbers of cystic fibrosis and normal gametes are produced; male and female gametes combine at random during fertilization. Pre-natal testing might then change the probability from 1 in 4 to near certainty that the fetus is or is not affected. However, pre-natal diagnosis cannot be used to rule out all possible birth defects, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...based on some knowledge of statistics. The sort of question we would like to be able to address is: ‘What range of physiques must we accommodate in order to be sure that 95% of the population can drive the vehicle comfortably?’ In doing this you will see that we can also address other questions which are of interest to engineers, such as: ‘Given a batch of...
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Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...based on the actual or perceived race, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation of the victim. Key theorists Key theorists who have conducted research or written about crimes of the powerful include: Stanley Cohen; Hazel Croall; Frank Pearce; Edwin Sutherland; Steve Tombs; Dave Whyte (Source: adapted from Mclaughlin, E. and Muncie, J. (eds), 2001)...Crimes of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...based on the part of the study that focused on staff who had direct course-related contact with students. Interviews were conducted with 39 associate lecturers across first year health, education and language curriculum areas. For the purposes of this section, the staff are referred to as ‘tutors’ but it also recognised that the title of the staff may vary across...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs