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Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...family resemblance between the themes. The prominent use of the sixth degree of the scale, G natural, as a neighbour note to the F natural at the beginning of the upper voice is one such feature. In both themes, indeed, it’s harmonised by a subsidiary G minor harmony at the end of the first bar. This illustrates one use of analysis, which is to reveal an aesthetic...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...history of an igneous rock. The back-scattered electron image in Figure 39 shows several large crystals of the minerals olivine and pyroxene surrounded by finer-grained crystals in a lava from the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific. EMP analysis reveals (Figure 40) that the bright rim around the edge of the olivine crystals is rich in iron, but the iron content...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...history Life indoors in the UK was very cold in winter in the past. Houses in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had a central fire (usually fuelled by coal), often also used for cooking and water heating, and were lit with either oil or gas lamps. They had to be well ventilated both to supply the combustion air for the fire and to get rid of the fumes from the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...history repeats itself and people eventually reinvent the technologies leading up to the capital stock of twenty-first century humanity, it would take thousands of years to get back to where we were. The hardware is important but it is human knowledge that really matters. Learning how to use the hardware most effectively is therefore a crucial capacity for firms. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...families. This may add credibility as it provides different perspectives on the students’ performance and can be particularly helpful if there are concerns with performance involving service users. This evidence should be written and be unbiased. While it is good to encourage a more active role for patients, service users and carers in having a voice in informing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...family is held to be at the core of the business. As a result, providing childrenswear that mimics the Fat Face image fills a niche in the market. WEAKNESSES Despite the strengths of the business, there are also a number of weaknesses. Firstly, the middle market prices deter younger customers whose income is less disposable. Although the target market is 25-55 years old,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...family, their friends, maybe if they got pictures from their holidays, they can use those pictures to discuss the holiday they've been on. If you're talking about a picture from a textbook, it's something which is removed from you. So I mean, it's someone you don't know, you don't care about. If you're talking about somebody that you know, that you love, you care for,...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...history of calculus goes back to the second half of the seventeenth century, when Isaac Newton in England and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in what is now Germany both independently developed the basic ideas. Newton’s ideas were rooted in the applications of mathematics, while Leibniz’s were rooted in pure mathematics. [Described image] Isaac Newton (1642–1727) Newton...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs