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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...public broadcaster made a decision that it would support us. I think we just weren’t on their radar, except when one of the major banks in Canada said that it was no longer going to buy commercial space on the CBC, because of one of our logging shows, or something like that. It created a kerfuffle, but we, I guess, in the end did get the support that we needed. It’s a...
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Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...public domain (in this case, the failure became a series of headline stories). Example 6 In 1992, the London ambulance service commissioned a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system for getting ambulances and their crews to reported incidents. It was intended to replace an existing paper-based system. There were two notable failures of the new system in November 1992 that...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...health care. What about pensions? Finally, there is quality of life. So, what research is now being done that will benefit everyone in their later years? It turns out that the ageing process can be researched in a microgravity environment. Here the context of ‘bed rest’ is used. But how can resting in a bed simulate ageing? And does space travel make astronauts age?...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Health Service and the expansion to state benefit schemes. [The image is the top of a letter from HMRC concerning National Insurance. The letter is lying the keyboard of a computer.] Figure 3 National Insurance Contributions (NICs) are like another tax NICs from employers and employees make up the second largest single contribution to UK government receipts – close to a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...health. In the course, you will learn about the concept of resilience and understand how resilience can be developed in athletes and coaches...This free course, Developing resilience in sport, explores how the concept of resilience can support athletes on their athletic development journey. Resilience can act as a buffer to protect against the challenges that might be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...public controversy. Moreover, you face a choice of research techniques. These choices can have a considerable effect upon the outcome of your research. For instance, if you ask for responses to standardised questions from a large number of families you may be able to compare the results between one group and another. However, if you spend a greater amount of time with a...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...publication takes place, the work will be peer-reviewed for flaws (and originality). It is also the case that, at any one time, there is a dominant view of how things work, within which most scientific endeavour in a particular field takes place. Every so often that dominant view turns out to be misconceived and/or there is a major discovery and a paradigm shift occurs....
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...public. Other labels and brand names coined in the infancy of AM have lingered but to a lesser extent. However, engineers need a more robust terminology. In this course, additive manufacturing has been chosen as the term to use for two reasons: It is the term which satisfactorily describes the sector of manufacturing described in this course. A committee set up by the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs