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Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...work, with example audio). These clicks are focused by the front of the skull, which is shaped like a satellite dish, and pass out into the water through a waxy structure, the ‘melon’, which acts as an acoustic lens. In this way, the animal can focus and direct the stream of sound. The returning pulses are picked up by oil-filled cavities in the lower jaw and pass...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...working subset of the system, and is developed through several iterations. The integration of the increments results in the final system. However, this integration can be progressively achieved by successive releases of the software, each release achieving more functionality. Figure 2 illustrates an iterative and incremental model The increments represent development that...
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...Works and Days)...Introducing Homer's Iliad: 3 Homer’s oral art I - The fact that the Iliad was composed orally means that it has a number of features that are specific to this type of poetry. Even though all we have is a written version of the text, we can still identify a number of these oral features. Activity 4 Read through the opening seven lines of the Iliad...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...work of Jacquelynne Eccles. Eccles’ expectancy-value theory (Eccles et al., 1983; Eccles, 1993), which you will encounter in a moment, looks at parental influence on children’s motivation in achievement settings. Eccles’ theory is widely used in academic settings and has been applied to the sporting context to explain parental involvement. Activity 3 Eccles’...
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...work of which there are no words that would be fit or good to say. Another of these is Cordelia. The place they have in our lives and thoughts is not one for talk. The niche set apart for them to inhabit in our secret hearts is not penetrable by the lights and noises of common day. There are chapels in the cathedrals of man's highest art, as in that of his inmost life,...
Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...work on your speaking skills and pronunciation. First, you will revise some vocabulary to get you talking. Guten Appetit! Enjoy your meal!...Week 2: Ich esse gern…: 1 The adverb gern - If you want to say what you like to do in German, you can do so by just adding the word gern after the verb (you may also hear people say gerne). The verb itself (for example ich esse,...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...work, entertainment and at home. At least one-third of internet users around the world are found to be children younger than 18 years old. Increasingly, more children have their own mobile phone or mobile device (for example a tablet), watch television on their own devices, play games for at least a few hours per week, and use websites such as YouTube extensively more as...
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...working out the numbers for himself that he thinks are right for how sensitive the earth’s climate is to CO2, how much warming would we get say if we doubled CO2? So he comes to conferences and he defends his ideas, and there are a lot of people who’ve in some senses gathered around him and people like Matt Ridley, to hold that position of a lukewarm future. RH: Do...