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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...statistical analysis but because of “errors of inference”. Although a conscious brain, when imagining tennis, triggers a certain pattern of activation, it does not necessarily mean that the same pattern of activation signifies consciousness. The same brain area can be activated in many circumstances, Nachev says, with or without any conscious correlate. Moreover, he...
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Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...statistical methods to compare findings among different studies. A cautionary note is that not all studies are done or explained equally well; they may present several limitations that can limit the validity of the evidence presented. The larger the study is (e.g. number of people, or number of studies examining the same issue) and the more in-depth (more details are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...statistics, measurement, geometry, trigonometry, and algebra. A typical list of content objectives might contain over one hundred objectives to be introduced or revisited and learned each year. These can be seen as hierarchical in nature but many textbooks do not attempt to organise the objectives in ways that enable the bigger underpinning ideas to become apparent to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...statistics. These use two categories of energy: Primary energy − this is essentially energy in its ‘raw’ form. Examples include crude oil before it is refined and the fuels used to generate electricity: coal, natural gas and nuclear heat. Delivered (or final) energy − this is the energy that the consumer actually receives (and pays for): refined petrol and diesel,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...statistics show that in the year to August, house prices in the capital shot up by 8.7%. One agency's recently reported that asking prices went up by more than 10% in a month. It's fuelling fears of a housing bubble and making London increasingly unaffordable for many. MILES SHIPSIDE High level of international interest; some agents report over 50% of purchases coming...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...statistics, although we appreciate that the uncertainties there are still considerably high and that the future development of research in particular in the physical science base is consisting of improvement of the models plus an increase of the grid resolution of these models. The granularity with which the models can inform us will increase, which will provide even a...
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The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...statistics can be taken at face value, more people are killing themselves in peacetime than in war. In a paper published in 2013, Tomlinson wrote: “Since 1998 the suicide rate in Northern Ireland has almost doubled, following a decade during which the rate declined from a low level of 10 per 100,000 of the population to 8.6.” The overall rate is now 16.25 per 100,000:...
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An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...statistics which are broken down by category, for example, by gender or genre. You could even view the borrowing data for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or students with English as a second language (EASL). In doing so, your LMS will be able to supply you with important data on reading and literacy, a topic which will undoubtedly be of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs