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Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...centre of the organisation to business units and functions, and from business units to sub-business units and projects, with lower levels expected to comply with the requirements set out in the higher-level documents. This means that typically only those things that are different need to be described, meaning the RMPs are often quick and easy to prepare. For example,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...centred and narrative-focused; choruses tend to be music-centred and expression-focused. It is no accident that the chorus of ‘Be My Baby’ features considerable repetition of words, and that by the end of it, the words have been replaced by vocables (sung, meaningless syllables): the music has established priority over the text. Related to this is that choruses also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...centre of the field of view, at any magnification, is a small cross or cross-hairs. The coordinates of this cross are constantly displayed below the viewing window, as x- and y-coordinates. The sample can be moved to a specific location by typing its x- and y-coordinates into the empty boxes, and clicking the 'Go' button. This useful feature allows locations of particular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...centred on the fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas (Figure 1.4). Note that although the isotopes whose fission or fusion forms the basis for nuclear power are not burnt, they are generally known as nuclear fuels. A further advantage of fuels as energy sources is their transportability, so that conversion can take place on selected sites or in mobile units. Highly concentrated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...centres of royal influence and were supervised by an officer (chamberlain) in the King’s household, and were presided over by provosts. At the time monarchs were beginning to realise and acknowledge the role that trade could play in enhancing taxes and revenues and therefore their income and power. However, as trade developed and merchants began to gain economic...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...centre of the keyboard in Figure 3 represents middle C, a note near the middle of most keyboard instruments. Observe that it has been notated twice in staff notation, once in the upper staff and once in the lower one. It has been written in both staves using a ledger line, a short line that allows you to incorporate notes that are placed higher or lower than the staff....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...children’s story Goldilocks and the Three Bears, where Goldilocks finds the temperature for Baby Bear’s porridge to be ‘just right’. The good news (there sometimes is some) is that theoretical calculations suggest that we will not be able to pump enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to cause a runaway greenhouse effect like that on Venus. This is backed up by...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...centre of The Duchess of Malfi stands a heroine rather than a hero, which is fairly unusual in Renaissance tragedy. The play also contains an extremely enigmatic and sinister villain. This course will examine how Webster represents his heroine’s marriage for love, which goes against the wishes of her aristocratic family with disastrous consequences. [Described image]...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs