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Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...statistics of very large populations of identical particles. That means we may expect to see it when discussing several million million million atoms. In this context the argument of the exponential is usually some particular, fixed energy E divided by a thermal energy kT, and it is negative: This form of the exponential is very important in the context of thermally...
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...statistic from that report that's really stark and brings to life what that meant for babies and children at that time. It told us that babies born to unskilled fathers had death rates four to five times higher than for babies of professional fathers. And the causes were still the same for those inequalities in health. They were caused by poor living conditions,...
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...statistics were not always reliable even into the 1980s and even today, waste data are often described as ‘estimated’. Data are difficult to collect and may not be collected every year, so while it may be several years old, it could still be the best available. Not only does the amount of waste to be collected and managed need to be ascertained, but its composition...
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...Statistics The columns all have clear headings, so the reader can instantly see what the table is presenting. It has a title (Table 3 Population …), also called a table caption, that describes the table’s contents. It also shows where the data came from, which can help readers judge the trustworthiness of the evidence. These are all critical elements to presenting a...
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...statistics above demonstrate, child labour makes a major contribution to global production. It has also been heavily implicated in the criticisms of the activities of MNCs, which have been accused of exploiting child labour in their production chains (Naomi Klein No Logo , and other anti-globalisation publications). In addition, of course, child labour – if in a mild...
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...statistical data demonstrate an awareness of a range of techniques in linguistics for the analysis of data including those related to corpora...Exploring the English language: 1 Word classes - Activity 1 Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Look at an extract from An A to Z of English by clicking on the video clip below. In this extract, poet Michael Rosen acts out a confusing...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...statistics, chemistry, philosophy. This is not just about online courseware. It's really revolutionising how we think about learning, and how we think about teaching. We make learning environments, and learning environments include what a student might do with the computer. Speaker 1 Worrying is discouraging. Speaker 2 Worrying is discouraging. Candace Thille But it also...
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American Psychiatric Association. The ICD-10 is the tenth edition of the handbook for International Classification of Diseases, produced by the World Health Organization (2004) and covers mental disorders in Chapter V. You will see how this handbook describes schizophrenia later in this course. Both manuals take a...