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Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...determine which archives and sources you'll need to use, but for most people the most useful documents are Civil Registration froms and Census Returns. Civil registration From July 1837 in England and Wales, every birth, marriage and death by law had to be registered with civil authorities; the system was introduced in Scotland in 1855, and in Ireland in 1864. Local...
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Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...determine their abilities or personality These are some well-known data collection techniques. However, you’ve probably heard about other techniques, such as the collection of texts, documents, images and artefacts. Further, there are also some more recent approaches to data collection, such as internet-based methods, social media research, as well as data analytic...
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Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...determinant, describes a rigid personality founded on keeping things in and not letting go as a substitute for other, previous losses. The most obvious example of this is of someone whose loved one was deceased years before but who cannot bring themselves to take any of their possessions to the charity shop where others could benefit from them, though this may not amount...
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Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...determined spot. It is also important to be flexible when making appointments. For instance, there is a tendency to focus on academic merit when appointing a research associate, but that can be an exclusionary criterion. I – a white heterosexual cisgendered man – have sat in on interviews in which a candidate who more closely represented the population the research...
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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...determine the heating that drives the troposphere from below. Volcanic activity has outgassed the atmosphere itself from the body of the forming planet and continues to supply many trace gases and small particulates to the mix. Variations in volcanic output are connected to sometimes huge climate changes. Life has modified the composition of the atmosphere, resulting in...
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Article 20 mins
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...determined experiences. Bell (1968) and Sameroff and Chandler (1975) are widely recognized as bringing this transactional model to the fore. Under this model the child plays a significant role in producing its own experiences both directly by its own selection of activities but, more importantly for the young child, by the influence its behaviour has upon caretakers...
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Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...determine in terms of whether they are internal or external, such as non-executive directors or trustees. Some other groups may also be hard to define in these terms, for example self-employed staff on short-term contracts, volunteers and trade union officials. Similarly, elected members of local government from opposition political parties and those whose parties are in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...determine whether or not each was affected by a change. The result would be a lot of effort spent on checking, even if no changes were needed. Example 9 illustrates the danger of having more than one module making use of common or shared data. Example 9 Date handling has always been a problem for software developers. For applications of a certain age, the most applicable...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs