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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...resource, so it’s going to work in some parts of the world and not in others, but there are clearly places where these renewable technologies wash their own face commercially now anyway. RH: What about offshore wind which is so much more expensive than onshore wind, although politically less contentious, we haven’t seen huge decreases in price in offshore wind,...
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...human development. Bandura’s social cognitive theory (SCT) builds on the earlier social learning approaches by addressing the fact that human development involves a complex interplay of many factors. SCT is usually presented (e.g. Bandura, 1986) in terms of a ‘model of causation’ that links three sets of variables, all of which influence each other: behaviour (e.g....
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...human blood. Metal Chemical symbol Concentration/ppb Aluminium Al 13 Cobalt Co 0.2 Chromium Cr 3.0 Nickel Ni 5.0 Metals may enter fresh and salty water through industrial waste, sewage and run-off. Microbes, plants and animals that depend on this contaminated water consume or absorb these metals. Over time the metals are concentrated within the food chain, in a process...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...human voice, of the nursery rhyme ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’, was made over 150 years ago. Within 25 years sound recording had become a global industry. Before sound recording was possible, few people had the opportunity to hear music in the way we take for granted today. Apart from expensive musical boxes and mechanical music players, the only way music could be heard...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 3: Double-entry accounting: Introduction - As you learned in Week 1, accounting is a process that involves: the systematic recording of all relevant financial transactions and events classifying, interpreting, summarising and reporting such bookkeeping data the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...human figure, but he was also expected to represent nature in its ideal forms rather than merely copying the familiar appearance of things, like artists who practised the lower genres. (The masculine pronoun is deliberate. It was extremely difficult for women to become history painters. Female students were not admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. The...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...resources to survive a weak start, but he is going to have to figure out how to capture the imagination of his party. Andra Gillespie is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University. She teaches the undergraduate survey course in African American politics and a course called “New Black Political Leadership.” She is the author of The New Black...
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...are further resources you may find useful in the Applying Psychology at Work Hub: Wellbeing for Work Managing Relationships and Work References Bertua, C., Anderson, N. and Salgado, J.F. (2005) ‘The predictive validity of cognitive ability tests: a UK meta-analysis’, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 78, pp. 387–409, doi: 10.1348/096317905X26994...