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The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...world, and in keeping with good software engineering practice, the first stage of implementation would involve matching the design requirements with the best available implementing tools and then using those tools for the implementation. In database terms, this might involve choosing vendor products whose DBMS and SQL variants are most suited to the database we need to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...World Health Organization to make global comparisons about levels of over- and under-nutrition for people in different countries (Webb, 2008). The table below shows how different BMI scores relate to weight classifications, and you will see that the distinction between ‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ is actually a very precise difference in the BMI. ‘Overweight’ is...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...world? [MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER: It's often said that justice is blind. But what exactly is justice? We've all seen the image of the goddess Themis with her blindfold and scales symbolizing the ancient Greeks' idealized view of justice. And it was the Greeks who developed the first concepts of justice, with Aristotle distinguishing between distributive and corrective...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...world out there – and covering the first tips of the snowdrops that were brave enough to come above ground a few days ago. But before I can get too romantic about it all, I’d better start thinking about my workday. It’s Monday after all. I remember that I have a few meetings first thing today. The day starts with some admin and a meeting to talk about all the things...
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Article 15 mins
Lleihau ôl troed carbon digidol y cwmwl
Nature & Environment

Lleihau ôl troed carbon digidol y cwmwl

...World Wide Waste, yn dyfynnu adroddiadau sy'n honni na chaiff 90% o'r data a gaiff eu storio fyth eu cyrchu ar ôl eu storio, ac na chaiff 90% o ddata'r Rhyngrwyd Pethau fyth eu defnyddio. Mae rhoi'r gorau i'r drefn o storio data na chaiff fyth eu defnyddio yn lleihau'r lefel o garbon sy'n gysylltiedig â storio, ond hefyd y carbon sy'n gysylltiedig â chyfathrebu a...
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Article 5 mins
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...world of uncertain times, one thing remains clear: namely, that lay people are not simply passive or active, dependent or independent, believers or sceptics. Rather, they are a complex mixture of all of these things (and much more besides). (Williams and Calnan, 1996, p. 264) Challenges to medical power as forms of resistance (i.e. not ‘fitting’ the medical view)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...world and, most importantly, they result in quite significant differences in how families divide up the work. We cannot ignore the inequalities that may be a product of the traditional ideologies, but being aware of gender ideologies does help us to understand why change might be slow moving or resistant to change. Gender refers to the expectations of a particular society...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...world? Is there anything that people in business can genuinely learn from philosophy? Alex: Well I know from experience that they can. What a business person can learn from a philosopher is the need to be able to explain and justify what it is that their particular corporation is doing. What are their motives? There’s a lot of confusion, I think. There’s a lot of...
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Audio 15 mins