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Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...2, which discusses parabolic flights and how they can create a microgravity environment. This video also discusses how it is thought planets are formed. Then complete Activity 2. NARRATOR: 60 Second Adventures in Microgravity. Number Two, The Vomit Comet. When you're on a roller coaster and you feel your stomach being left behind, for that tiny moment, you're experiencing...
Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...2) Definition 2 Culture is a fuzzy set of basic assumptions and values, orientations to life, beliefs, policies, procedures and behavioural conventions that are shared by a group of people, and that influence (but do not determine) each member's behaviour and [their] interpretations of the 'meaning' of other people's behaviour. (Spencer-Oatey, 2008, cited in...
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...2: Climate change Session 3: Flood risk Session 4: Food security Session 5: Connection to nature Session 6: Water quality Session 7: Next steps...Session 1: Biodiversity: Learning outcomes - By the end of this session, you should be able to: explain why the mix of species in floodplain meadows varies over space and time explain why the diversity of species in floodplain...
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...2 and 4. Section 3 includes some ideas that are relatively difficult. You should read this section, but do not spend a great deal of time on it. Section 5 is of a similar length to Sections 2 and 4. Overall, do not allow yourself to spend too long on any section while you are studying this course. You can always come back and reread material here if you find later that...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...Le Mans BBC Two last on 29 Oct 2016 © BBC 2016 Activity 2: audio: extract from: BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth- Small Talk © BBC (2016) Activity 4: Video: extract from: The Human Body episode 3 Emotions © BBC 2 last on Nov 2017 © BBC (2017) Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...2. Table 1 is primarily intended to illustrate format, not to give an exhaustive list of all the cash flow items that could arise from this project. Perhaps from your own experience you can think of other possible cash flow items. The table should help to indicate where these would be incorporated. The revenue cash inflows include the additional profits that, it is...
Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...2 Forces for development Read the chapter Forces for development. This is taken from the book Researching Your Own Practice. In this chapter, John Mason, a member of the ME825 course team, looks at some of the forces for development in mathematics education and introduces reflection as an action. As part of your reading, you are invited to carry out a personal inventory...
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...the inside, Kiama, Angie Ballard, Robin Lambert, and Eliza Ault-Connell. ANNOUNCER 2 And that is the women's 100-metres sprint wheelchair. [MUSIC PLAYING] [CROWD CHATTER] ANNOUNCER 1 They're off and rolling now. Eliza Ault-Connell on the outside, and Angie Ballard. We've seen these two girls battle over the two and the 800. It looks like Angie Ballard here way too strong to win a plus 1.5, and she's going to take it out, ......