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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...circulating levels of the hormone leptin. Activity 31 What are the likely consequences of low leptin levels in these individuals and how might they be treated? Answer The low levels of leptin will lead to enhanced appetite as a consequence of increased NPY and decreased -MSH levels in the hypothalamus. The increased food intake will simply exacerbate the increased levels...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...circulating the idea that ‘delicacy of feeling’ and ‘a high sensibility’ should be regarded as the quintessential qualities of a human being (Figure 4). Not only were characters and plot now built around sentiments, but readers were also meant to respond with heightened ‘feeling’ to what they read. Never before had physiology so directly shaped literature, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...circulated local papers in Wales. Sexual jealousy, a lack of understanding about Islam, and tensions over racist ‘Whites First’ employment practices in the economic depression following the First World War all contributed to the explosion of what were termed ‘race riots’ in Cardiff on 11 June 1919. Discriminatory housing policy, alongside a desire for community...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...circulation. Thus, performances may stray significantly from an ideal without seeming to be out of tune (that is, too sharp or too flat), even to insider experts. Second, instrument makers in some traditions deliberately manipulate octaves and/or unisons to be slightly and pleasingly out of tune. Builders of gamelan ensembles in central Java, the most populous island in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...circulated and debated on a scale and at a speed that no previous generation could imagine. These new ways of looking at the world, and the new ways of communicating such insights, leave plenty of room for optimism...Climate change: transitions to sustainability: 7.1 Questions - Question 1 What are the four dimensions of globalisation outlined in Section 4? Question 2...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...circulated and read, it was Sir Steven Runciman (1903–2000) who came to the defence of the Empire and Byzantine art in a paper published in Daedalus in 1976. Sir Steven’s article was short, yet punchy, placing Gibbon’s disdain for the Empire within the latter’s contemporary social perspective. Sir Steven, like El Greco did with Vasari, concluded that ‘for all...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...circulated) when one was younger (in early adulthood, in adolescence, in childhood) or even before birth’. (Holbrook and Schindler 2003, p. 108) Stern (1992) distinguishes between two types of nostalgia in marketing: i.historical nostalgia: a desire for the way things were ii.personal nostalgia: a desire for the way I was...Marketing communications in the digital age:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...circulated in advance of the meeting. It is usually a good idea to circulate them at least a week before a business meeting. Activity 3 Agendas Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes Think of a meeting in which you were recently involved. Did you receive an agenda and any reports or papers in sufficient time to prepare adequately? Was the agenda appropriate? Was the right...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs