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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...thinking: might animal noses be quicker, or more accurate, and/or cheaper – and so able to be used more widely – than some high-tech cancer-screening techniques? If dogs really could sniff out cancer, what other diseases might they smell? And might the noses of other animals be useful too? Over the past decade, there have been projects investigating the use of bees to...
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Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...thinking it through will inform us not only about Egyptian mathematics, but also about what studying history can involve. The question arose because it seemed to suggest itself from the source material, or from our efforts to understand it. We use fractions, the Egyptians also seemed to do so, yet only in a seemingly highly restricted way which drove them into subtle and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...thinking is that efficiency, which is related to the speed and volume of output a process produces, needs to be balanced against effectiveness, or the quality of that output. In the next section, we will spend some time considering how the ideas that have been highlighted so far fit together, before moving on to consider how you can use them in your own working...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...think about choosing a revision place where you can spread out your materials and leave them as they are, without having to pack anything away. This means that you can pick up and put down your revision whenever you find time to revise. This will help you to make the most of your revision time. On the other hand, you may find that you concentrate better away from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...system that discouraged the language’s use. The Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge11, established in 1709, played an important role in the education of young Gaels through the 18th and 19th Centuries. Initially, their attitude to the language was outwardly hostile and the speaking of Gaelic was banned even in the playground. In 1750, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...system of accounting. Being able to understand and express the accounting equation in different forms is crucial to understanding and preparing the balance sheet (the principal financial statement) and the income statement...Week 2: Essential numerical skills for accounting: 2.1 Mastering accounting numeracy - Competent accountants should be able to use mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...system, however, the national polling average is not as valuable as individual state polling. It’s the states, not the whole country, that decide the election. To be elected president, a candidate must win more than 269 electoral votes, which are apportioned to the individual states based on the size of their delegations to Congress. With the exceptions of Maine and...
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What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...systemic crises of capitalism, such as environmental degradation and the alarming growth in poverty and inequality within nation-states. As a result of this failure, powerful economic elites came to completely control politics through lobbying and corruption. In the US the so called political establishment, expressed in the shape of Democrat candidate Hilary Clinton,...
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