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The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...intelligent and agreeable. The other gentleman, tall, dark, of urbane stateliness, was something more, in the touch of Oriental suavity which, more than his nose, betrayed him; and it appeared, in delightful suggestion of the old-time commercial intimacy of the Dutch and English coasts, that he was from Holland, and next morning at breakfast he developed a large valise,...
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...intelligently to disputes, controversies and arguments about issues. Subjects like geography develop approaches to ‘disciplined enquiry’ that use a small number of very important concepts. When these are used and grown, using real data and examples, they do not ‘tell’ pupils what to think, but help them to think about matters that are truly complex. A letter...
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...intelligence, verbal ability and numerical ability Top 30 per cent for general intelligence, verbal ability and numerical ability Possible use of selection tests Education and qualifications Good general school results with particular aptitude for English Two A-levels (post-16 higher examination) or equivalent Certificate or Diploma in Management Qualification...
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...intelligence. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests were originally developed by psychologists to identify children in France who were considered to be at risk of learning delays. The test involved presenting children with a series of questions and comparing each child’s individual performance with group averages for the child’s age. Piaget noticed that children of the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...artificially repeated? Discussion Some of the train sounds we hear are naturally repeated whereas with others Schaeffer has created a degree of repetition artificially. The use of repeated rhythmic sounds is a familiar feature in much popular music and especially in electronic dance music. This recording is one of the earliest examples of using recordings to artificially...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...intelligently. I do think the days of just isolated celebratory natural history shows may be beginning to come to an end. Archive legacy… I think as filmmakers we have a moral duty to release our archive as much as we can. Obviously there are financial constraints, people that pay for these shows want the first look, but once they’ve gone through that first commercial...
Meithrin eich Sgiliau Meddwl yn Feirniadol
History & The Arts

Meithrin eich Sgiliau Meddwl yn Feirniadol

...intelligent alien life elsewhere in the Universe. Popeth yn iawn hyd yma: rwy'n credu bod hyn yn gynrychiolaeth deg o'm ymresymiad. A dychmygwch nawr eich bod yn rhoi cynnig didwyll ar ei phrofi. Wrth gymhwyso'r prawf cyntaf, gallech nodi efallai ein bod ni wedi dod i gysylltiad â bywyd estron deallus heb yn wybod i ni. Ac wrth gymhwyso'r ail brawf, gallech ddweud, hyd...
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...intelligent sampling.” It may be that the flexible operation of the brain networks underpinning interpretation allows interpreters to optimise strategies for dealing with different types of speech. And different interpreters listening to the same material may use different strategies. The results from the Geneva group also fit with a wider theme in neuroscience. When...