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Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...multiple theories of leadership have been developed, each one retaining influences from the discipline in which it originated. For example, examining the behaviours and traits of individual leaders continues to be an area of study for those drawing on a background of psychology, whereas researchers emerging from a business studies background may focus on how leaders...
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...multiple realities that are subjective and complex depending on individual viewpoints? Theories about reality that are relevant to research in education or with children and young people, concern how you understand reality, which also involves people and their interactions. Ontological theories are concerned with how you understand the social world, what it is, and what...
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...multiple transmissions being broadcast on different frequencies; the tuning circuit ideally passes the wanted broadcast to the output and blocks all the others, which are on different frequencies from the wanted broadcast. Filters can be analogue or digital. Analogue filters use components such as inductors, capacitors, resistors, and sometimes operational amplifiers...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness
Health, Sports & Psychology

The dog beyond the mirror: Experiments with dog consciousness

...multiple individuals living in groups and with different ages and sexes, this test provides significant evidence of self-awareness in dogs and can play a crucial role in showing that this capacity is not a specific feature of only great apes, humans, and a few other animals, but it depends on the way in which researchers try to verify it.” This research was conducted...
When is the best time to buy plane tickets?
Money & Business

When is the best time to buy plane tickets?

...multiple travel agents, or go directly to a site that allows for a quick comparison of prices (such as kayak.com or skyscanner.net). Or check the airline itself. As for answering the original question we posed, here are some simple tips. First, if you have to travel during a peak period, such as Thanksgiving week, it is generally best not to delay buying that ticket....
From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old
History & The Arts

From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

...multiple species of fart, including “the sonorous and full-toned or rousing fart,” “the double fart,” “the soft fizzing fart,” “the wet fart” and “the sullen wind-bound fart.” The philosophy of fart jokes Clearly, as these examples show, flatulence humor is timeless. But why are farts universally funny? We might begin by asking what makes anything...
Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?
History & The Arts

Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?

...multiple mysteries, a scene unthinkable of Doyle’s more urbane original. Indeed, series such as Sherlock and Guy Ritchie’s films paradoxically render Holmes’s intellect less threatening by elevating it to absurd heights. In The Lying Detective, for instance, Sherlock is able to predict intricate events weeks in advance. If Doyle’s skill lay in keeping Holmes’s...
Why did millions march against Trump?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did millions march against Trump?

...multiple locations, people gathering spontaneously created their own sub-marches out of excitement as happened in DC when a band started playing on Madison street and people followed. Or, while waiting, waiting participants chanted “march, march.” Still, in many locations, once the official march started, people created sub-marches out of necessity because the...