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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...Division (UNSD) (2016) ‘Municipal waste treatment’ [Online]. Available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/qindicators.htm (Accessed 11 February 2017). US Embassy (2017) ‘Beijing Air Twitter’ [Online]. Available at https://twitter.com/BeijingAir?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Accessed and reading taken 12 November 2017). Webster, K....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...division of stakes should a dice game be interrupted before a player has won. [This is a composite of two portraits, of the mathematicians Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.] Figure 1 (a) Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), (b) Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665) You will look at this problem shortly. First, some concepts in probability theory will be discussed. In what follows, it...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...division or branch of private common law (distinct from public and criminal law), comprised of rules, doctrines, principles and procedures that are largely occupied with matters relating to private and commercial property in its many forms. Human rights law is enshrined in the Human Rights Act 1998, which sets out the fundamental rights and freedoms that everyone in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...division between words. This section takes a closer look at these two features. Later sessions of this course will present examples of two other important aspects of Greek writing before the end of the fifth-century BCE: the direction of writing the variety of Greek scripts...Session 3: Writing: 6.1 Capital letters - Coins provide another excellent source of Greek...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...division of practitioners into physicians, surgeons and apothecaries were swept away. Instead, medical men were split into general practitioners and consultants. At the same time, medical practitioners developed a new collective identity, seeing themselves as members of a single occupation, with common interests and conforming to common standards of behaviour. A clear...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...divisive questions as the best way to salvation raised in such a light-hearted way as Touchstone does must have felt liberating. ‘Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd’, Touchstone teases, but the audience seldom feels that the peril (‘parlous’ is an old form of ‘perilous’) is real. This sense of potentially risky topics being raised but bracketed off, being,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...divisions are an arbitrary measure of sound intensity Figure 1 shows a plot of sound waves recorded from inside a listener's ears. You can think of the up and down movements of the wavy lines as representing the in and out vibrations of the listener's ear drums. The sound was of a single hand clap, taking place to the front left of the listener. You will notice that the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...divisions that in reality exist between the markets for properties in widely different price bands. We ignore these complexities in the interests of gaining insight into the general principles of the impact of demand and supply on property pricing. However, in order to give a realistic sense of such a simple model, you could imagine a medium size, relatively newly built...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs