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Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...liquid chemicals are deposited and irradiated with ultraviolet light such that they react to create solid plastic was patented in 1986 by Charles W. Hull (Hull, 1986). By controlling the design of the process with computer software, it is possible to produce successive cross-sections of materials to build a 3D object of choice. While process innovation is traditionally...
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...solid fact, and direct experience of animals and direct experience of countryside is absolutely crucial, otherwise you don’t know what it implies. Obligations of the filmmakers… Filmmakers making on the natural world have a responsibility to make it truthful. Does this matter? Yes, it matters hugely, because as we all know, it’s a cliché, human beings are dependent...
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...solid stool for the first time in the right place - that is heroic. Amanda Vickery: A round of applause. Laurie Taylor: We've reached this - we've reached a point where I want to see if there are any question that you'd like to address to any of the guests here, pick up on anything they've said or to ask anything. Wendy Maples: It's Wendy Maples and my question is really...
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...liquid should appear distinctly blue-ish if viewed from the sides, as blue light is scattered through a large angle by particles in the milk more effectively than the other colours, which travel from top to bottom. The sky appears blue (except when you look towards the Sun or at clouds) due to a similar scattering effect from tiny particles and molecules in the air. Then...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...liquidated, an infinite stream of dividends, Dn, from year 1 to infinity, ∞, can be assumed. So: equation left hand side cap p sub i equals right hand side n ary summation from n equals one to n equals infinity over cap d sub n divided by open one plus cap e left parenthesis cap r sub i close right parenthesis super n where Pi = current price of share i Dn = dividend...
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...liquidity within markets are often promoted as reducing risk and exposure to market volatility for investors. Well, the ‘flash crash’ of 2010 brought that ruse to an end. Or at least it should have. No matter how carefully conceived, the algorithms of HFT are never able to completely account for unforeseen ‘behaviour’ in markets. Contingency, in other words,...
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...sang the praises of "a lover with a slow hand." Now, we all laughed at Sting a few years ago when he went Tantric, but you fast-forward a few years, and now you find couples of all ages flocking to workshops, or maybe just on their own in their own bedrooms, finding ways to put on the brakes and have better sex. And of course, in Italy where -- I mean, Italians always...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...Solid blocks of text can look overwhelming. You should normally aim for an average of three or four paragraphs per side of word-processed A4 paper. Solid blocks of text imply that the writer hasn't taken the time or is unable to organise the material. At the other extreme, written work with the appearance of being very ‘broken up’ – lots of separate sentences, each...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs