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Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...publication whether it can be and has been tested whether it has a known error rate; and whether the research was conducted independent of the particular litigation or was dependent on an intention to provide the proposed testimony.Footnote 6 By contrast, it is fair to say that in England and Wales, the common law courts have historically taken a fairly laid-back attitude...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Crime fiction in French: le polar français
Languages

Crime fiction in French: le polar français

...public français pour le mélodrame. Gaboriau inspire énormément l’écrivain britannique Wilkie Collins surtout par l’emploi d’analepses narratives (flashbacks) pour élucider les circonstances du crime, technique empruntée par Arthur Conan Doyle dans ses deux premiers romans avec Sherlock Holmes en vedette (Une Étude en rouge et Le Signe des quatre). Le...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...publications of his works. The Vienna in which Schubert lived in the early nineteenth century was full of domestic music-making. But the centre of musical activity had shifted somewhat since the late eighteenth century. Then it was the aristocracy who had supported Mozart and, at the turn of the century, the young Beethoven. By the time Schubert was active as a composer,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Sleep: A doctor's advice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sleep: A doctor's advice

...health benefits are huge. I have known patients who have a cigarette before bed "to get them off to sleep". Yet high levels of nicotine stimulate particular receptors in your brain and can affect the quality of your sleep, similarly to caffeine. So, while you're trying to quit, having your last cigarette of the day as early as possible will help you improve the quality of...
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Article 10 mins
Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...health and productivity issues of this false assumption, we must acknowledge that energy consumed by our colleagues (and even by end users while using our products) is the responsibility of the organisation. These emissions fall into what is known as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 3 emissions. As such, from an IT manager’s point of view, the products acquired...
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Article 5 mins
Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...health and wellbeing at the school. Between preparing for and attending meetings of the full governing body, sub-committee meetings, visiting the school, participating in training, and arranging activities at the school, as well as her work as chair of the school’s parent-teacher association, Kerrie estimates her work takes around 48 hours per month, but this ebbs and...
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Article 5 mins
Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle

...Health, 8(9): e1152–e1161. Bloomer, F., Pierson, C., MacNamara, N., Mackle, D a Trew, J. D. (2017) Abortion as a Workplace Issue: A Trade Union Survey North & South of Ireland. Ar gael yn:https://www.unison-ni.org.uk/sites/default/files/TU%20Abortion%20Report%20Oct9_Final_Final_Edit.pdf (Accessed: 3 June 2024). Bloomer, F. K., Mackle, D., MacNamara, N., Pierson, C. a...
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Article 5 mins
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...health records – and hold it in vast databases, where it can then be put to many uses. Many commentators argue that, while human societies have always created data, digital technologies are now gathering it as a speed and volume that is unprecedented historically. Some scholars and campaigners, however, are worried that, while we're very familiar with digital screens...
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Article 10 mins