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Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...public were. So when they made the decision to go back to the condition of the house on the day before the fire, they were doing that in order to recreate the right context for those historic works of art, many of which had been in that situation, and that setting, since the, certainly the 18th century, if not, in some cases, from when the house was built. We also have to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/PDPguide.pdf (Accessed 7 January 2014)...Personal development planning for engineering: Acknowledgements - Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. Cover image: Eneas De Troya in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...public and appointed judges). Of course, this probability might be very different to that assigned by another watcher. The concept of probability could also be used to consider how the gambling industry functions and the interplay between odds and subjective probabilities, but this will not be covered in this course. In business scenarios, it is not often that you can...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...publication details. This book contains many vocabulary exercises. In English there are often two words expressing the same idea, one of Anglo-Saxon origin, the other of Latin origin. Anglo-Saxon words can often seem more simple and straightforward in style, while Latinate words can seem more scientific and academic. So simple words and phrases such as go down, high, sad,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...public, whom he likely hoped to impress with his travels in ‘mysterious’ lands previously not known to his audience. Coupled with the caption ‘the priest of the Devil’, this image represents an example of visual dehumanisation and the beginning of centuries-long demonisation of Indigenous religious practitioners categorised as shamans. Witsen never personally...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...No units have been included for the BMI on the left-hand side, in line with current health-care practice. However, strictly the unit for the BMI is which is the same as or ‘kilograms per square metre’.) Activity 5: Body mass index If an adult man is 176 cm tall and has a mass of 85 kg, calculate his BMI and decide whether he is overweight. Discussion The formula needs the mass in kilograms and the height in metres. So......
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...health, diet and environmental issues) work (for example, in roles in education, medicine or in industry) hobbies (finding out about weather for holiday plans, the soil if you are a keen gardener, habitats and migration if you are a birdwatcher). Some people associate science with high-level specialists and feel that science does not actively influence their lives...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...health-related fitness phenotypes: the 2004 update’, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, vol. 37, pp. 881–903...Physical activity: a family affair: Further reading - Bailey, R., Collins, D., Ford, P., MacNamara, A., Toma, M., and Pearce, G. (2010) ‘Participant Development in Sport: An Academic Review’ [Online] Leeds, sports coach UK. Available at...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs