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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...think that Westerners don’t know how to look after children properly. A changing phenomenon Childhood is a changing social phenomenon, of continual fascination and concern. Looking at it from a cross-cultural perspective shows the wide variety of childhoods that exist across the world and warns against interfering in or criticising people whose lives, and understandings...
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Article 10 mins
What do genes do?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do genes do?

...think this process occurs in the cell? Answer It must occur in the nucleus where the DNA in the cell is located. However, once mRNA is produced, it leaves the nucleus and protein synthesis – translation – occurs in the cytoplasm. Thus transcription and translation are separated both in space within the cell and in time, in that one occurs after the other, as shown...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...systems (such as combining forces) using vectors perform simple algebraic procedures using vectors...Introducing vectors for engineering applications: Background - It is common in engineering for physical phenomena to be represented as vector fields. A vector field is a mathematical representation of a system that describes how a quantity, such as a force, changes over an...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...thinks you can afford to pay back (the ‘affordability test’). This involves the lender reviewing your income and spending – typically aided by studying your bank statements for the past three months. When it comes to your spending the focus will be on your regular and contractual expenditure (e.g. mobile phone contract, school fees, and home insurance) rather than...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...system. Kyiv fell to the Mongolians in 1240. Since then, Ukraine has often been divided and conquered, but has maintained a strong sense of its own identity and fought determinedly for independence. For example, the Cossacks, who lived on the steppes of south-eastern Ukraine, fought against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which then controlled most of Ukraine, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol
History & The Arts

Rhyddhau amrywiaeth y gorffennol

...system garchardai, mae Mary Louisa Gordon (1861-1941), meddyg o Brydain ac arolygydd carchardai yn dwyn i gof: I came across another young woman who was continually in prison for stealing men’s clothes. She had several long sentences. I asked her what would keep her out of prison, and she replied, “If I could go to sea.” On investigation I found that she felt it...
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Article 5 mins
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...system to ensure all the microphones used for speaking were balanced at the right volume, so was in a good position to see the actual enthronement. Every available chair was used, plus more chairs were hired to extend the seating capacity as much as possible. The processions moved from St David’s chapel beside the vestry, past the south transcept gallery where the huge...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...thinking of, or representing, numbers. A fraction represents a part of something. If you decide to share out something equally between two people, then each receives a half of the total and this is represented by the symbol ½. A fraction is just the ratio of two numbers: 1/2, 3/5, 12/8, etc. We get the corresponding decimal form 0.5, 0.6, 1.5 respectively by performing...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs