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The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...changed the prevailing and long-standing anonymity of the Byzantine artist into eponymous appreciation. Fame for the majority of Byzantine artists was restricted to God: they were content with the knowledge that He ‘[Lord] knows their names’ – a phrase which describes a belief that, to a certain extent, may account for the shortage of named artists in Byzantium....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...changes in Latin, according to the role of the word in the sentence, just to make life difficult for schoolchildren); ‘ad ’ means ‘to’ or ‘towards’; and ‘in’ means ‘in’. ‘Jus’ is sometimes spelled with an ‘I’, but however it is spelled, the word is conventionally pronounced softly, with a ‘y’ sound at the start. For ease of reference I will...
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...changed drastically over time. The purpose of marketing communications is to engage with target audiences to achieve one (or more) of four functions, which is known as the DRIP model, shown in Figure 1 (Fill and Turnbull, 2019). Click ‘View interactive version’ then click on each of the four functions to read about it in more detail. Figure 1 The DRIP model The most...
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...change between the months seems to be much greater in the graph where the vertical axis starts at £6.5 billion. This is because the total scale on the vertical axis is much smaller than in the second graph, where the vertical axis starts at 0. If you wished to use the line graph to show that turnover is fluctuating strongly, you might prefer to use the first graph,...
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...changes in the extracellular environment and transduce information about the environment to the inside of the cell, thereby allowing appropriate responses to be initiated. [Described image] Figure 7 A schematic diagram of the animal cell membrane. The membrane consists of a fluid phospholipid bilayer with proteins embedded in it. Integral membrane proteins interact with...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...change in the middle of the line. The third foot has been replaced with a spondee. So in the first line of the Iliad, we have two dactyls: Menin aeide the-. One spondee: -A pe-. Two more dactyls: -leia deo akhi-. And a final spondee: -leos. If you go back and listen to the Greek recording again now, you may be able to begin to hear the meter in the opening of the Iliad....
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...change the probabilities of high sales to 0.5 and medium to 0.4. The financial impacts are that high sales would be worth €9M, medium would be worth €5M and low, €1M. Using a decision tree analysis, calculate what the company’s investment strategy should be. You can use pen and paper, an Excel spreadsheet, or record your calculations in the text box below. Once...
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...changed over the centuries and be able to contrast the views of Descartes with more modern ideas...This free course, Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction, examines the philosophical questions surrounding the mind. You will examine how beliefs have changed over the centuries and be able to contrast the views of Descartes with more modern ideas....Minds and mental...