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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...become attached to each other because of their spatial and/or temporal proximity to each other, not because of rational choice. This implies that understanding why decisions are made in one area frequently requires an understanding of what is going on elsewhere at the same time. The original work of March and his colleagues was done in the context of some university...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...become a style with which the Academy was both familiar and comfortable. Click to see Plate 5: Jacques-Louis David, The Lictors returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons...Delacroix: 2.6 An alternative deathbed tradition - Delacroix does not draw on this neoclassical tradition. He uses an alternative deathbed tradition, in which the bed is artificially raised and tilted...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...Become familiar with the data: read the transcripts, survey responses or other data collected several times. Generate codes: highlight in the text where the same issue is being raised by different respondents by using a different code (colour, letter, number) for each separate issue. Generate themes: consider the codes identified above and identify the higher-level...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...becoming the managers or stewards of our environment – whether we like it or not. Your opinions may well differ from those expressed in the last paragraph. Since you have chosen to study this course about the environment, I would not be surprised if you already have quite strong views about some of the environmental issues we face. Exercise 1 What are the most pressing...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...become extinct in a comparatively short geological time...Climate change and renewable energy: 2 The carbon connection - The development of life on a dynamic Earth was associated with major changes in the composition of oceans and atmospheres, and carbon-based life played a key role in this. The section above discussed how greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have a major...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...becomes adenosine diphosphate or ADP. The energy released from this ATP catabolism can be used to power the energy-requiring processes in the body. So, using the money analogy, ATP is synthesized (or earned like money) and then catabolized (spent) where necessary. There is a difference in the analogy here in that the body is very efficient in how it uses ATP and wastes as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...become a party to treaties, the rules of IHL must be respected by all parties to an armed conflict, irrespective of whether they are a state or non-state entity (e.g. a group of guerrilla fighters). However, the application of the correct legal framework depends primarily on the type of armed conflict. IHL distinguishes between two main types of conflict: international...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...becomes evident that Venus and Mercury have phases, similar to the phases of the Moon (Figure 4). [Composite of photographs, taken over a lunar month, shows the changing shape, or phase, of the Moon] Figure 4 This composite of photographs, taken over a lunar month, shows the changing shape, or phase, of the Moon, growing from a thin crescent to full moon and back again...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs