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Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...et al., 2018) Total 6495 Recently extinct 96 Living 6399 Living wild 6382 Mammals have been around for a long time. Fossils of the shrew-like Megazostrodon have been found in strata in southern Africa that are 200 million years old. [Described image] Figure 4 An early mammal, Megazostrodon Rather than shuffling along, with splayed-out limbs in the manner of many reptiles,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...et curieuses, thirty-four volumes of which appeared between 1702 and 1776. The Jesuit accounts of far-flung lands were widely read during the Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is...
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Article 5 mins
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...et al., 2019). What spaces and places are there for focusing on and discussing race in criminology, what special conferences are held, what symposia are convened, what journals are launched, what Special Issues are curated, what teaching curricula are adopted or developed that address the recurring, resilient and pervasive presence of race and its mysteries? Unlike in...
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Video 30 mins
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...axes are labelled and the four search terms are each given their own colour, with a key to show which is which. It could be made better by: making the graph larger, so that the four lines are more separate choosing different colours – the orange for ‘Perseverance’ and the yellow for ‘astrobiology’ are difficult to distinguish from each other. Evidently,...
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Article 5 mins
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...et al., 1999) has emerged as a popular iterative and incremental development process for building enterprise systems based on an object-oriented approach. It promotes a set of best practices, namely that development should be organised in short time-boxed iterations, and that it should be adaptive to accommodate inevitable change. Time boxing means that a (usually) short...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...et River Positive’ grant....Session 1: Biodiversity: Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 A species-rich floodplain meadow. In this session you will learn about floodplain meadow species and plant communities, and the importance of biodiversity in resilience. Biodiversity is a term that encompasses all the variation in living things. Maintaining and enhancing...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...the basis of absorption costing. The following definitions are attributed to Horngren et al. (1999). Direct costs are all costs that can be directly attributed to a cost object and that can be traced to it in an economically feasible (cost-effective) way. A cost object is defined as anything for which a separate measurement of costs is desired. For instance, in an analysis of sales regions, the salaries, commissions and ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...et al., 2013). You may find the sea’s temperature cold, but the world’s corals, fish, and polar bears would beg to differ. Imagine how much hotter it would be without healthy oceans. a. Around 10% b. Around 50% c. Around 90% The correct answer is c. c. Yes, but 90% of people were wrong. The global ocean is a heat trap, capturing most global warming (Rhein et al.,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs