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Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...work in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. We hope to fix this problem soon...Advanced Spanish: Language in context: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define a living language and explain the features that make it qualify as such identify the types of knowledge required in order to understand a language’s regional varieties evaluate...
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...social workers and lawyers have tried to get a test carried out on an adult without the permission of the person concerned. There can also be strong pressure on individuals who, although they are aware they are undergoing testing, might not be exercising their own best judgement. An example is the family pressure that can force prospective parents to be tested so that...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...works). [Figure 1.10] Figure 1.10 Polluted river in an industrial area. For lakes with no written historical records, the diatom record of sediments can be used to study earlier periods of natural change in water quality, and to provide a baseline against which to evaluate trends in artificial or human-induced eutrophication. Diatoms are microscopic photosynthetic...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...work with vectors represented in component form. Section 3 is concerned with vector algebra, and considers how equations involving vectors can be solved. Finally, Section 4 introduces the scalar product of vectors, a multiplication operation that takes into account direction as well as magnitude. Solutions to the activities which appear in this course can be found on this...
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...working on a wide variety of biological problems, as the rest of the world struggled to come to terms with the implications of evolution. [Figure 1] Figure 1 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) The word 'evolution' means 'change over time' and it can be used in relation to anything that has a history; thus, we could describe the evolution of the motor car or of parliamentary...
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...social issues appropriate to the development of alternatives to oil products demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the impact of the use of oil on the future of our planet express and rewrite concepts in an objective and factually correct way make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical or graphical material...Living without...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...work' is a knowledge of the subcellular components and how they are arranged. This is introduced through a series of in-text and self-assessment questions...This free course, A tour of the cell, contains a blend of text and a multimedia interactive component to look at the uniformity and diversity within cells. Fundamental to understanding how cells 'work' is a knowledge...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...work out how to say ‘Good day’ in Ukrainian? NATALIA: Dobryi den! MERI: Dobryi den! NATALIA: Ya Natalia, a vy? MERI: Ya Meri. NATALIA: Duzhe pryiemno! MERI: Meni tezh. Audio 2 Audio 2 transcript UKRAINIAN TRANSLITERATION Наталя–Добрий день! Natalia– Dobryi den! Мері–Добрий день! Meri–Dobryi den! Наталя–Я Наталя, а...