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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...communities of these food webs below ground that make terrestrial ecosystems work,” says Diana Wall, a soil ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, who also chairs the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, an international scientific collaboration. “If they were just soil and carbon and no life, we’d be on Mars, where you have soil, but not life in...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...communication, and responds appropriately. It might be expected that caregiver personality differences would thus be found to be associated with infant attachment security, but here again few direct effects have been found (Egeland and Farber, 1984). What has been found, however, is that the combination of child and caregiver individual characteristics does predict...
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The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...communicated to them the goods of heaven; but he made it a capital duty to decline all self-interest, and whatever might dishonour his ministry. He took nothing from the many thousands whom he baptized, and often gave back the little presents which some laid on the altar, choosing rather to mortify the fervent than to scandalize the weak or the infidels. On the contrary,...
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An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...community and while receiving care due to health problems, in a range of settings. The basic principle of infection prevention and control is hygiene. WHO, 2011a. In response to the level of concern about the increasing incidence of the spread of infection, including within and across the more economically developed regions of the world, the WHO launched ‘Clean Care is...
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Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...Communicating with AI Google's 'Prompting Essentials' Course Glossary of key terms AI: 'Artificial intelligence' is an umbrella term that refers to computer systems designed to perform tasks and processes typically characterised as requiring human intelligence or input, such as reasoning, translation, decision-making, visual perception and speech recognition. GenAI:...
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Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...communicating and using the predictions. It also makes it difficult to predict and measure the effects of any future potential geoengineering. In the next session you will tackle the question: how has Earth’s climate changed in the recent past? Get started with Session 2...Session 2: The planet is changing: Introduction - Do you believe the climate is changing? If so,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...communicative skills in general: production, perception and interaction. Reference: Underhill, A. (2010) Four reasons to teach pronunciation...Week 1 Why teach pronunciation?: Speaking with an accent - When learning a new language, our mother tongue undoubtedly exerts an influence over our pronunciation, which is perceived by native speakers as a foreign accent. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...communicate and understand emotions (Bard, 2004). which you might have expected as they are very close relatives of humans. And you might not have been very surprised to learn that cats can experience emotions, based on your own experiences of them. There is evidence that cats experience fear in the presence of dogs, with specific responses being found in the amygdalae...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs