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From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...change one phoneme, for example the /d/ to a /t/, then you have a word that is not just different but completely unrelated in meaning – bet. You could imagine a hypothetical linguistic system in which particular phonemes had special relationships to meanings; for example, in which words for furniture all began with /b/, or words for body parts all contained an /i/. No...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...changes and the pathophysiology of childhood asthma understand the experience of parents and children in childhood asthma explain how mental health affects children and young people understand the experience of using mental health services as a young person...Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development: 1 Childhood asthma - In this section,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...Changing decimals or fractions to percentages To change a decimal to a percentage you need to multiply by 100: 0.8 = 80% 0.75 = 75% To change a percentage to a decimal you need to divide by 100: 60% = 0.6 3% = 0.03 To convert a fraction to a percentage it is necessary to first change the fraction to a decimal: 4/5 = 0.8 = 80% 3/4 = 0.75= 75% If a machine is sold for £120...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...changed a hundred thousand small cesspools for one moster one. We undertook only a part of the necessary work, and that not the most important part. When the old Board of Health resolved that every house should be drained, they ought alos to have found a sufficient means of carrying off the filth so removed from houses; but the task was too much for them, and, carrying...
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Article 10 mins
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...changing into that little dried-up, parchment-hided man that he became years afterwards. This it is, to make a book without the least knowledge of the men and things of which it treats. "Dried-up! Parchment-hided!" "Oh, for one hour of Dundee!" One hour of De Quincey - better, three hours from nine till midnight —for a rapt listener to be "under the wand of a magician"....
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Article 10 mins
Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?
Society, Politics & Law

Are businesses just leaping on transgender trends to turn a profit?

...change from ‘female’ to ‘male’ in the brewing process. Mainstream visibility and the power to push back against offensive representations might be seen as a success story, one result of sustained lobbying by trans-led groups like Trans Media Watch and All About Trans on how trans issues should be featured in the media. At a basic level, less exploitative...
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Article 5 mins
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...changes they don within the ever-so illusory world of the stage. You can see, therefore, why an artist such as Bowie so appeals. However, the most powerful image of him for me will always be the one I encountered first, namely the fantastical goblin king in Jim Henson’s film Labyrinth. I was only five years old at the time but was mesmerised by Bowie’s electrifying...
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Article 5 mins
Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences
Society, Politics & Law

Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences

...change at all. So is a Hard Brexit ruled out? Such insidious cyclicity among Leave voters won’t trouble their political leaders provided a sufficiently Hard Brexit option remains on the table. But that’s been rendered highly uncertain by the Withdrawal Agreement struck with the EU on 8 December, to ensure ‘sufficient progress’ and enable talks to start on...
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Article 10 mins