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Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...writing (2003) the threat is considered to be so low that vaccination has only been reintroduced in the UK and USA for health workers who would be in the ‘front line’ of any response to an outbreak...Vaccination: 1.5 Summary of Section 1 - Smallpox, caused by the variola virus, was one of the great pandemic infectious diseases for more than 10,000 years, killing a...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...write a short description of the kinds of features you can see on Europa's surface, noting for example relative brightness and characteristic shapes or textures. Concentrate on a simple description of appearance; we do not expect you to explain the origin or precise nature of what you can see. (b) Try to deduce the relative ages of the features you have described. Answer...
Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...writing Using the values L = 1038 W and c = 3 × 108 m s−1, we get Q = 1022 kg s−1. Converting this into solar masses per year using 1M⊙ ≈ 2 × 1030 kg and 1 year ≈ 3 × 107 s, we get Q ≈ 0.2M⊙ per year. Is there a large enough supply of matter for a fraction of a solar mass to be accreted every year? Most astronomers think that the answer is yes, and that...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...writing (2009), 20 p/litre less than that on ultra-low sulphur petrol. A recent review has shown that biofuel production is a high-cost process overall; only the production of bioethanol from sugar cane was considered to be cost-effective. If, however, the price of crude oil rises then biofuels may start to become more competitive, although this would depend on...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...writing scripts in which we were using CGIs, and I was bringing fossils to life with skeletons coming off, and that sequence made it perfectly clear that there was something funny going on technically that enabled you to allow a skeleton, bones to come off a slab of rock and hop about, but you didn’t have to do that every time, and so eventually you got a situation...
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 2: adapted from Korkmaz, A.V., Van Engen, M.L., Knappert, L. and...
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...writing). AIDS-related deaths fell from 2 million in 2008 to 1.8 million in 2010 due to the expansion of access to effective antiretroviral therapy. One outcome of this success is that HIV prevalence (the number of people living with HIV infection) is steadily increasing – to 34 million in 2010. Just over 2 million of those people were children under 15 years infected...
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...Write down the mammalian features evident in monotremes. Is their egg-laying habit similar in all ways to that displayed by reptiles? Answer Both echidnas and the platypus have fur – though in the former, some of the hairs are thickened in the form of spines. Both animals produce milk – they have mammary glands, though well-defined nipples are not evident. Immature...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs