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IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...out all of the multiplication stages. I'll use the number 7 390 000 to demonstrate the method. Start by imagining there is a decimal point at the right hand end of the number. (I'll add a final 0 so that the decimal point can be seen clearly. This extra 0 is redundant since it doesn't alter the original value at all.) Now move the decimal point one place at a time until...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...out she was expecting Tomos. Although Ceri tries hard not to interfere with how Siân and Dafydd bring up their family there are inevitable tensions with the three adults sharing a house and Tomos, at four, is beginning to play his parents and grandparent off against each other. Siân has decided to go back to work full time now that Tomos is moving on from preschool into...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...out how meaning is conveyed in language...How does what you say come to mean something? Does what you say inherently represent what you, the speaker, think it means, whatever that might be, or does what you say carry its own meaning, separate from your intentions in saying it? This free course, Language and thought: introducing representation, introduces you to the key...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the media still fascinated by Brady and Hindley's crimes?

...out this information right up to the end. Such an act might have indicated that even Brady was capable of some final contrition. But this turned out to be a forlorn hope. So we are left struggling to comprehend how someone could commit such acts and this is reflected in the media responses to his death. The monstrous and evil imagery takes centre stage and emphasises the...
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Haven't we been told there's water on Mars before?
Science, Maths & Technology

Haven't we been told there's water on Mars before?

...out circles and patterns of lines making canal-like avenues on it.] "Canals" on Mars drawn by Percival Lowell in 1896. Gullies & droplets Things became more interesting in 2000, with the announcement that high-resolution images from the Mars Orbiter Camera on board Mars Global Surveyor showed gullies several metres deep and hundreds of metres long running down the...
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Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?
Society, Politics & Law

Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?

...out for what was the second democratic election since the ousting of president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, defying the expectations raised by western skeptic polls that predicted a low turnout. Four parties emerged as the major winners of these elections, and all parties and candidates accepted the results—proof that Tunisia is maturing as a democracy. [Tunisian...
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The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness
Health, Sports & Psychology

The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness

...out only with a single individual and not repeated systematically with other dogs of different sex and age (for example Marc Bekoff in 2001 used a “yellow snow test” to measure how long his dog was sniffing his scent of urine and those of the other dogs in the area). Therefore, the final test of self-recognition in a species as phylogenetically distant from apes (thus...
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Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...In 1991, a survey of 5,000 Americans conducted by the Library of Congress to find out which book had made the greatest difference in readers’ lives listed To Kill a Mockingbird second only to the Bible. Bill Clinton claimed that reading the novel inspired him to become a lawyer. And, ironically, during President Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, the special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, tried to co-opt the novel’s hero, ......
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