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Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...Social sciences...Nuclear power: friend or foe?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the technical and political constraints on the development of alternative energy strategies reflect on the contemporary discourse of nuclear energy assess your own position in these debates...Nuclear power: friend or foe?: 1 The task -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
White dwarfs and neutron stars
Science, Maths & Technology

White dwarfs and neutron stars

...interactions, all of the neutrinos are still able to escape within a few seconds. Activity 9 If each neutrino produced in the reactions described above carries away 10 MeV of energy, how much energy (in joules) is removed by neutrinos if the whole core (comprising 1.4 M☉ of iron-56) undergoes neutronisation? (The mass of an iron-56 nucleus is 56u, where u equals 1.66...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...socializing, making music, and moving. A glance down one table of first graders showed a wide array of polyrhythmic movement. One little girl was rotating her sandwich in a pulsing motion … in half circles in front of her. The next girl was tapping the bases of two carrots at top speed. On the other side of her, a boy was bouncing his milk carton in a syncopated beat. A...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...social, political) Adopts appropriate management styles Communicates effectively Negotiates/persuades/influences Listing and grouping a manager’s activities goes a little way towards making some sense out of the complexities of managerial work, but it does not offer any explanations. Another difficulty is that many other jobs have many of these components. Nurses, sales...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...interactive activities that will help you assess how far you understand individual topics or concepts. Even if you feel that you are already familiar with these concepts it is worthwhile reading through the sections of this course systematically to find out whether there is something that you hadn’t come across before or that you had forgotten...An introduction to music...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...interactions with patients. These principles began with the Hippocratic Oath, which is still sworn in one version or another in many countries when doctors graduate from medical training. The portion of the oath that relates most closely to Jenner’s experiment translates roughly as: I will prescribe treatments for the good of my patients according to my ability and my...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...interact (or don't) with sunlight, and whether they emit IR radiation. These rows have been partly completed. Fill in the empty boxes. (You may find Figure 10 is helpful.) The bottom two rows of the table categorise the grey-scale visible and IR images captured by satellites. These rows have also been partially completed. By referring to your entries in the top two rows...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...interaction of a laser with a spherical powder grain is different to that with an irregular-shaped grain. Figure 11 shows some example consumables. [Described image] Figure 11 Consumables. (a) Fused deposition filament. (b) Titanium powder for selective laser melting. Material delivery and consolidation As material is delivered, it is consolidated in some way. This can be...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs