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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...students who [INAUDIBLE].. Especially for students who [INAUDIBLE].. For maximum enjoyment, why not make sure you rise up? Why not make sure you rise up, and dance to the sound the new [INAUDIBLE] music. No more, no less. Let’s dance [INAUDIBLE]. No more, no less. Let’s dance [INAUDIBLE]. Rise up and dance to my new [INAUDIBLE].. Rise up to dance to my new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...becomes cap h 11 indicating its atoms contain one proton and one electron...Session 1: Atoms – the building blocks of matter: 1.3 Isotopes - You will recall, way back in the nineteenth century, John Dalton popularised the idea of matter being composed of atoms. More specifically he proposed that the atoms of each element are identical, especially in mass. The discovery...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...become blocked by aggregates of human antibodies bound to horse proteins, triggering local inflammation and even kidney failure. Although passive immunisation is now used infrequently due to the introduction of more effective chemotherapeutic agents and active vaccines, it was critically important in the past. For example, horse antiserum prevented thousands of deaths...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...becomes [50297, 50152], and so on. When a new item is recorded, the state of till5 changes, and changes in a way that is predictable. Specifically, the current state is changed by appending the newest item to the end of the sequence, giving a new state. We have described the change of a till state in a way that is quite general. The description is not peculiar to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...the Irish Sea, its ports, and the rest of the world, becoming a vital link for industry. Canals: The making of a nation first airs on BBC One on Friday 28th August 2015 at 9.30pm, with locally-focused episodes broadcast throughout the regions. The series will be repeated on BBC Four later in the year. Full broadcast details and watch again links can be found on bbc.co.uk....
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Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?

...become scarcer and election officials are increasingly forced to hoard rare parts needed to keep their equipment running. Neal Kelley, registrar in Orange County, California – the sixth-largest jurisdiction in the country – told us that he relies on a “back stock” of spare parts to keep his machines running. At some point, the inability to find replacement parts...
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Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...become one of the fastest growing parts of country, and is predicted to pull further ahead of the rest of the country in the next decade. This story of a ‘great divergence’ opening up between cities is being played out all across the UK, as well as elsewhere in the industrialised world. In the USA, for instance, the downturn in the fortunes of Detroit and Cleveland...
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...become the most widely used patient safety intervention in the world and are recommended by the World Health Organization. Yet, the evidence shows that checklists may have little impact, and her research found that in some situations – particularly in low-income countries – they might even make things worse. “The checklists sometimes introduced new risks. Nurses...
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