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Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...de Bunt: ‘… trust works as a lubricant in economic transactions by smoothing relations between actors and reducing transaction costs related to control’ (Bijlsma and van de Bunt, 2003, p. 639) The idea of ‘smoothing relations between actors’ deserves more attention here, as does the notion of ‘reducing transaction costs related to control’. Let’s take each...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Forest by Lynn Cherry, pub 2000 Voyager Books; ISBN: 0152026142 El Gran Capoquero: UN Cuento De LA Selva Amazonica by Lynn Cherry, translated by Alma Ada, 1994 Harcourt; ISBN: 0152323201 This page was updated in April 2017 to remove some dead links, include the video tutorials, and to redraft the text to make better sense outside of the context of the original programmes....
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Arglwyddes Llanofer, alawon Cymreig a chytgord cenedlaethol
History & The Arts

Arglwyddes Llanofer, alawon Cymreig a chytgord cenedlaethol

...de-ddwyrain Cymru, yr oedd llawer ohonynt wedi'u geni yn Lloegr fel Arglwyddes Llanofer. I'r dosbarth hwn nid oedd diddordeb yn nhraddodiadau diwylliannol Cymru a'r Gymraeg er ei fwyn ei hun ac nid oedd yn arwydd o ‘genedlaetholdeb’ fel y byddem yn meddwl amdano heddiw: yn hytrach, roeddent yn ystyried ei fod yn meithrin ymdeimlad o'r hyn roeddent yn ei alw'n...
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Article 5 mins
Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...de-concentration of disadvantaged and impoverished communities in previous eras. The wave of demolitions that have characterised Glasgow’s social housing landscape over the past decade or so, repeated elsewhere across the UK, has been presented by housing agencies, planners and politicians as heralding yet another glorious future for social housing tenants in the city....
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The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction

...De Schutter. A/HRC/50/38. New York: Human Rights Council. 50th Session. Little, M., Roelen, K., Lange, B., Steinert, J., Yakubovich, A., Cluver, L. and Humphreys, D. (2021) ‘Effectiveness of cash-plus programmes on early childhood outcomes compared to cash transfers alone: A systematic review and meta-analysis in low- and middle-income countries’. PLOS Medicine,...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...De Wolff and Van IJzendoorn, 1997), namely, the extent to which the caregiver is attentive to the infant’s state, behaviour and communication, and responds appropriately. It might be expected that caregiver personality differences would thus be found to be associated with infant attachment security, but here again few direct effects have been found (Egeland and Farber,...
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Article 15 mins
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...de-visite, 1870s] © National Portrait Gallery, London Figure 9 Mark Twain, by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s Another writer, Charlotte Brontë, damned my favourite with faint praise: ‘I have likewise read one of Miss Austen’s works Emma – read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...de Montfort, whose testicles were draped over his decapitated head). Llwelyn’s head was stuck on a pike at the Tower of London, where it remained for more than a decade to impress onlookers. [Photograph of Cwmhir Abbey in Wales. There is a landscaped lawn of green going from the bottom of the image to the centre and a rocky wall across the middle separating the...
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Article 10 mins