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Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation
History & The Arts

Sgwrs Agored - Wales: Music Nation

...Social History (2000), The Trombone (2006), a Music and the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013, ar y cyd â Helen Barlow); fe yw cyd-olygydd Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments (1997) a Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments (2018). Mae hefyd yn brif olygydd Cambridge History of Welsh Music (2022). Ar gael nawr A HISTORY OF WELSH...
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Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...work of management accountants. In the final section you will look at the concept of environmental management accounting and analyse the impact of environmental costs and their implications for management accounting...This course is designed to provide you with a solid understanding of the principles and practices of cost accounting. Cost accounting enables managers to...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...social policy of the Catholic Church. There were economic concerns too: Belfast and the north-east of Ireland was an industrial powerhouse based on shipbuilding and linen industries whilst the rural economy of the rest of the island was poorer, with no real industrial or manufacturing base. So in addition to religious and cultural differences, protestant north east Ulster...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...Social Science, 14(1), pp. 239–258. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110316-113618. Hastie, R., Penrod, S. and Pennington, N. (1983) Inside the Jury. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Levett, L.M. and Devine, D. (2017) ‘Integrating Individual and Group Models of Juror Decision Making’, in The Psychology of Juries. Washington, DC, US:...
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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...social tensions. Would it work? The Sunday Times didn't think so and, naturally, warned that the country was about to have a winter of discontent. 1988 Obviously, nations in the Southern Hemisphere experience their winter of discontents at the other end of the year to those in the Northern. Hence, it was still summer in the UK when the FT was describing New Zealand's job...
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The author at home
History & The Arts

The author at home

...work of the writer’s house museum for my latest book. The first writer’s house that admirers visited after he died in 1374 was Petrarch’s in Arqua, Italy. But what did these admirers hope to find? One of the earliest comments on the oddness of this impulse to visit dead authors at home is the elaborate practical joke known as ‘Petrarch’s cat’. This cat was...
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How do you become French President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become French President?

...work in France...Transcript France has a semi presidential system and is a unitary state. The President is directed elected by the French people, but has then to appoint a Prime Minister who can command the support of a majority of the French legislature. French national elections are conducted in two stages under a majoritarian electoral system known as the double...
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What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the Minamata Convention on Mercury and what does it mean?

...work. Contamination with even small amounts may damage the nervous, digestive and immune systems as well as lungs, kidneys, skin and eyes. Fetuses and young children are most susceptible, with studiesdocumenting mental retardation in a small proportion of children in fishing communities of countries such as Brazil and China. The Convention takes its name from the...
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