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Exploring Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring Psychology

...researching topics like this in social psychology? The audio tracks feature disabled people who reflect on how disability has affected their sense of identity. Also featured are the cases of twins who didn't grow up together, people coping with memory loss, and the famous case of the soprano Lisa-Lee who discovered in her twenties that a rare genetic disorder meant she...
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Audio 1 hr 33 mins
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...centre The full training and development of highly skilled and specialist staff Discussion Both of these decisions would come under long-term planning as the time horizon in each case is many years. In the case of the new facility it can take many years to obtain the right permissions and funding. To develop a highly skilled workforce again the lead time can be many years...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Physical vapour deposition (PVD)
Science, Maths & Technology

Physical vapour deposition (PVD)

...centred on the coating of machine tools (particularly twist drills) and forming dies with TiN, which can give hardnesses in excess of 2000 Hv. Design: Coating thickness can vary from 0.25 to 250 µm according to requirements, but is typically in the range 1–10 µm. Coating can be so thin that in many cases it is possible to deposit it on components within the design...
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Article 10 mins
Induction/flame hardening
Science, Maths & Technology

Induction/flame hardening

...centres. The steep thermal gradients required necessitate high flame temperatures, with the risk of overheating, burning and distortion, so the process is usually automated using specially shaped burners. Typical applications include gear teeth, brake drums, axles, cams and crankshafts. Materials: Ferrous metals whose composition is such that the required hardness will be...
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Article 10 mins
St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity
History & The Arts

St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity

...centre for creative media production. Helen Barlow and Martin Clarke are co-authoring a chapter that examines the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity. It traces the origins of singing the Welsh national anthem at rugby internationals back to the famous 1905 victory over the touring All Blacks as well as exploring more recent practice, including...
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Article 5 mins
From space to laboratory in four days
Science, Maths & Technology

From space to laboratory in four days

...centres around understanding how water evolved in the early Solar System, including how our own planet came to possess such vast oceans. To do this I look at water rich meteorites called CM chondrites, which probably come from very old asteroids formed early in Solar System history, and may have even brought water to Earth when the Solar System was in its infancy. I use...
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Article 10 mins
Park Hill Estate
History & The Arts

Park Hill Estate

...centre, and is built on a slope, so increases in height as the hill slopes away. The estate consists of huge snake-like blocks which contain the duplex apartments and the estate's famous 'streets in the sky', (based on the Smithsons' Golden Lane Housing plan of 1952), a bold attempt to preserve the communal benefits of street-life. The New Urban Cool Each apartment had a...
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Article 5 mins
Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome
History & The Arts

Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome

...centred displays were a feature of funeral rites, and women in particular hit their breasts, pulled their hair and lamented loudly. Other aspects such as ripping clothing and lacerating flesh, that Virgil noted, were less often seen, but there was an overall sense that the bodies of mourners were dishevelled, bruised, noisy and demonstrative, and the opposite of their...
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Article 5 mins