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Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...carbonate along bedding planes and fractures, and then returned to the surface where impermeable strata prevent further downwards migration. [Figure 1] Figure 1 The River Thames about 1 km from its source in Gloucestershire. Here the river is a bourne arising from a valley spring — the photograph was taken when the water table was high in spring. At the end of summer...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...carbon neutral volcano. [CROWD LAUGHING] Yeah. [APPLAUSE] And that is beautiful. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] It is clear from the David McCandless TED Talk that infographics and data visualisations can be beautiful and engaging ways to present research, as demonstrated by Figure 4 (which has a marketing, rather than an educational research, focus). [Described image] Figure 4...
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...carbon dioxide emissions produced by developed countries results in climate change that causes extreme weather on the other side of the world. Temporal changes: in addition to our experience of space, how we experience time is changing. Technology (for example, phones and aeroplanes) can connect people or take them from one place to another faster than before. On the...
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, hydrogen, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide. Some sensors include pressure (for parking), dust concentrations, noise, displacement of cracks, temperature, humidity, and luminosity. Sensors measure idle times, fuel usage, engine faults, and engine load. Sensors measure idle times, fuel usage, engine faults, and engine load....
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...carbon neutral deliveries; yet, it is costly to develop such offers. Usually more innovative, they require additional investments of time, attention and money to develop. Also, they do not always reflect the conventional meaning of efficiency measured in financial terms. This may be the case of green solutions. Yet, despite their higher costs, green value propositions are...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...carbon emissions; encourage recycling; reduce binge drinking and childhood obesity; encourage positive health behaviours; and many more...Social marketing: 2.3 Reasons for social marketing - Your thoughts should already have suggested reasons why social marketing can be an effective approach to dealing with social problems and issues. We will now consider some of these...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...carbon dioxide (CO2). CO2 is a key greenhouse gas (GHG) responsible for anthropogenic climate change (that is, caused by human activity) (Garnett, 2013). By contrast, a recent research review concluded that plant-based diets could sustain the global human population from half the agricultural land currently in use (Chai et al., 2019). In terms of water, ‘livestock’...
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...carbon dioxide oxygen water soil micronutrients glucose light respiration. Once you have completed the concept map, spend 5 or 10 minutes researching the subject and the concepts. Would you change anything in your map?...Primary science: supporting children’s learning: 4 Using models in science - Science develops and uses models which are simplified representations of...