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Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...division,’ was his summary of events that day. He started working with BBC HR director Richard Burdon on the basis that Linwood ‘had a case to answer for in relation to DMI’. Coles’ notes of the board meeting talk of concern about Linwood’s lack of collaboration and the executive board’s loss of confidence. But, according to the tribunal, he was unable to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...division and muscle contraction. Energy is obtained from ATP when it is hydrolysed to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and free phosphate ions. Equation 31 is thermodynamically favourable, having a free energy change, [cap delta sub r times cap g super circle with horizontal bar], of about −140 kJ mol−1. Note that when bonded together the adenine and ribose rings are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...division, so it enhances cell-mediated immunity. The second category of adjuvants takes a different approach, by incorporating cytokines into the vaccine to enhance the immune response directly. At present (2003) this strategy has been tried in experimental animals, principally using IL-1, IL-2 and IFN-γ, but none have yet been approved for use in vaccines for humans....
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...division in social constructions of social issues. The distinction between the natural and the social in constructing the causes that underlie social issues is a profound and recurrent one. A ‘social’ orientation involves the construction of social causes and conditions as the explanations for social issues. However, it is also important to bear in mind that such an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...division of one times prefix multiplication of 10 super negative 4.8 postfix times equals one times prefix multiplication of 10 super negative 2.5 equals 316 times open t times o postfix times three postfix times s full stop prefix times of f full stop close So smoking is approximately 316 times more dangerous than playing football. This ignores the health and social...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...divisions within colonial society. The gens de couleur, with some backing from reformers in Paris, argued that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 meant all free men should enjoy equal rights. These demands aroused the fury of many white colonists, and particularly that of the petits blancs, some of whom saw their status as under threat. [This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...division of labour’ are well established within Geography, but, if you used these ideas as a student, you would need to show first that you understood what they meant. That would involve you tracking down (and referencing) the course sources where these ideas were introduced and explained. It should be clear then that what might be viewed as ‘common knowledge’ will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...division, always falling short when compared to the masterpieces that ‘good’ art – deriving from ancient Greece and Rome revived by the Italian Renaissance – had to offer. Vasari, however, was not the only author to put the shackles of ugliness and inferior quality on Byzantine art. In the late eighteenth century, Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) compiled a monumental...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs