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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...out the existing DNA. Then the opposite is done: the DNA is sucked out of the animal's cell and placed in the empty egg. This is done under a microscope in a laboratory, under sterile conditions, to avoid fungus and bacteria growing. Different Types of Cloning Embryo cloning is basically a medical technique which duplicates the process that nature uses to produce twins or...
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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...out of Bahrain over the 1950-2010 period should help us explore the extent to which this is the reason for the major population change. Test your understanding For the Bahrain data, how else might you have looked at it to test whether birth rates may have been responsible for the sudden population change? One way would have been to look at the year 2000 data for the 25 to...
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What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...out of balance, in which direction is the force acting to restore the water surface to its mean level? The force is directed upwards as the surface of the water returns to the mean water level. When the water level is at its maximum height there is a force directed downwards. In both cases this force is called the restoring force. Every time the surface reaches a maximum...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...out of the Arabian Peninsula into the Indian subcontinent, into Africa, into Southeast Asia, and so on. So there was that flexibility to accommodate what was going on around you. So Islamic jurisprudence is also contextual and I think that’s something that’s lost in the discussion about it nowadays. It seems like it’s a frozen, rigid artefact whereas, historically,...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...out across much of Asia at that time. [Described image] Figure 1 (repeated) European empires in Asia, 1914 By the mid nineteenth century Britain established control over much of what constitutes modern-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, with the so-called British Raj viewed as the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. Imperial Russia had also been expanding...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
An introduction to music theory
History & The Arts

An introduction to music theory

...out this short survey...An introduction to music theory: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the basic building blocks of musical theory and notation understand music theory to the level demanded by Grade 3 of the Associated Board of the Royals Schools of Music theory syllabus understand music theory to a level required to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...out or bacterial contamination has been reduced in Britain from between 30 to 50 per cent to 2–3 per cent in the last 50 years. Such packaging as shrink-wrap film, plastic bags and other containers, and foamed PS are now commonplace both for cooked and raw foodstuffs. Plastics are not alone here, because the ‘tin’ (actually steel or aluminium) can and glass bottle...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...out that our normative assumptions and expectations about the effects of increased literacy arise from particular liberal enlightenment-based theories. These theories have promoted the role of literacy and schooling in increasing socioeconomic development, social order and individual progress. Graff refers to this as the ‘literacy myth’ (Graff, 1979, 1981, 1987,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs