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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...learning about chronic wounds and the archaic-sounding maggot therapy when he was fresh out of medical school. Far from being a historical backwater, maggot therapy sounded exactly like what his chronic wound patients needed. “The maggots were able to dissolve the dead and infected tissue, thereby cleaning the wound faster than any of the other non-surgical treatments...
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...the Admiralty were also using. The lesson to be learned is that the phrase ‘I was there’ doesn’t always mean that the witness can explain the cause of an event. Looking in the archives, bringing different people’s recollections together, can confirm that some myths reflected reality, but others – like ‘Bletchley sank the Bismarck’ – don’t hold up....
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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...learning about African diasporic cultures and hairstyle craft – it is microaggressive. Let us celebrate Black women’s hair with respect and admiration for the hair that grows naturally out of their heads! Does a Black woman, like other women, not have the freedom of choice to wear her hair how she chooses? Think about why someone is compelled to ask the question...
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Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify some of the factors driving the need for network security identify and classify particular examples of attacks define the terms vulnerability, threat and attack identify physical points of vulnerability in simple networks compare and contrast symmetric and asymmetric encryption systems and...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the changing perceptions and definitions of art across history understand the relationship between ‘art’ and visual culture understand the global dimension of art and how it has changed over time understand the significance of notions of ‘function’ and ‘autonomy’ for art history...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: give, with an appropriate example, the meaning of the terms phase, phase boundary and phase transformation, and interpret stability fields in terms of pressures and/or temperatures using a phase diagram describe and recognise, giving examples, various physical properties of minerals, including lustre,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: select and justify a suitable risk-free rate and equity risk premium for use in determining the expected return for a share evaluate the different approaches to identifying a suitable equity risk premium use the dividend valuation model to calculate the return on a share and the return on a market use...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the concepts of ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ emerged during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries understand the processes that led to the formation of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland understand what is meant by ‘nation’ understand what is meant by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs