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Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...chemistry, biology, physics electronic devices such as laptops and smart phones tools and gadgets applied science engineering design numbers measurements calculations problem solving data To what extent are the words or phrases you came up with similar to those listed here? In general terms, science is about a particular type of knowledge about the world. Scientific...
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...chemistry and physics. It was opposed by the doctrine of emergence which claimed that even if all physical and chemical phenomena were known it would not be possible to predict biological phenomena because new properties emerged at the level of biology that were not contained in any of its parts. These doctrines are now used generally in discussions of science, including...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...chemistry, there are substantial difficulties in providing an accessible format that includes the symbolic notation. Most of the guidelines for accessibility skip over this, or assume that the amount of notation is small and can be dealt with by supplying descriptions. In fact, communicating these kinds of complex notations to people without vision is a highly specialised...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...chemistry, and malfunction of the nervous system and vital organs. The loss can be replaced by drinking a simple oral rehydration solution (ORS) of sugar and salt dissolved in clean water until the diarrhoea subsides. Distribution of millions of sachets of ORS powder and teaching parents how to administer it is slowly reducing the mortality from diarrhoea in childhood. In...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...Chemistry, pp. 43–68. Wrap (2012) Facts and figures [Online], Banbury, UK, Wrap. Available at http://www.wrap.org.uk/ content/ facts-and-figures (Accessed 20 October 2012)...Environmental management and organisations: Acknowledgements - This unit was written by Kevin Collins and Andy Lane. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions),...
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...chemistry, we get results very quickly. Histology is much slower because the tissue cassettes are going in here. And overnight, these reagents, IMS, and distilled methylated spirit, and xylene, and finally, wax, will visit the reaction chamber. And over that length of time, by 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, all the water will have been removed from the tissue, and it will be...
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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...chemistry that's going on here? ZORICA They get absorbed by CO2, by water vapour. PHIL So CO2, carbon dioxide, and water vapour. So you've got this very complex sort of system going on. And I find that if you draw it as a diagram like this, you've got the steps in the process. You can see them. It's just easier to describe them. Now put the following steps into order...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...chemistry or the economy. However, in the past few decades Gaelic has been used more and more in such spheres and so the appropriate terminology and registers have had to be developed quickly. After Gaelic medium primary school education began in 1985, for example, the local authorities concerned brought together subject specialists and Gaelic academics and in 1992 issued...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs