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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...social status and relationships, and, in Catherine's case, her likes and dislikes, her accomplishments and pastimes. You will probably have noticed that this extract comprises a single, extremely long paragraph and is mostly concerned with describing the young Catherine Morland. This amount of detail at the start of the novel suggests to us that Catherine is likely to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...interactive, screen-based use. No backup facilities were included to meet the users' requirement of long-term archival of their data. No user manuals were provided! Answer The user requirement for interactive, screen-based use forms part of the system specification, but actual performance can only be identified at implementation time, when the system has been built and is...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...social development: Mathematics education supports the growth of critical citizenship. It has the potential to develop a distinctively valuable set of tools that students can understand and use to interrogate many elements of the social and political worlds around them. Mathematics as an intellectual pursuit: An aim of mathematics education must also be the continuance of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...interactions of a number of different organisations. Every day, you use a multitude of physical objects and a variety of services. Most of the physical objects have been manufactured and most of the services have been provided by people in organisations. Just as fish are said to be unaware of the water that surrounds them, most of us give little thought to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...interactions between humans and the space environment, how life support and other essential systems could be adapted to minimise contamination events, and how the space environment itself might propagate or sterilise any biological life humans might invertedly deliver. [A cartoon of a human on Mars]Human exploration is an upcoming challenge for Planetary ProtectionShow...
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Article 5 mins
Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...interaction with others. It is not only the work of academics that carry a citation. Experts, practitioners, policies, artists and others who comment in the public space may also find their words taken up, amplified and included in whatever academics are writing. As has been pointed out in the section about asking research questions, the literature you engage with shapes...
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Article 20 mins
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...interaction with it. Indicators of intelligence – Cyberneticists were not especially interested in intelligence in the human sense. They tended to focus on characteristics that both humans and animals had in common, such as activity and purposeful behaviour. As we've seen, Symbolic AI was – and is – more narrowly focused. These are some of its main characteristics,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...social processes. We call it the 'three C's' in terms of how people feel in terms of their competence, how much control they have over their behaviour and how it impacts on their health and, also, how much companionship and relatedness that they have with other people. Those three things seem to be quite important for mental health. If we feel competent about what we do,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs