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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...division, to be found within the field of qualitative research, we will sketch three broad approaches, each of which has shaped a great deal of qualitative work. We will call these approaches: investigating personal experience penetrating official fronts or conscious motives documenting discursive strategies. While we will discuss them separately here, it should not be...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...division of vectors are not included in the list; this is because these operations are defined differently for vectors, and we will explore one definition of vector multiplication in the next section. Properties of vector algebra The following properties hold for all vectors bold a , bold b and bold c , and all scalars m and n . a plus b equals b plus a left parenthesis a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...divisions and tensions within African countries. These issues could compromise African sovereignty and hinder economic development goals. WILLIAM BROWN Thank you. And to round off this discussion, I think it has highlighted how African states and leaders are key actors in international relations alongside the great powers. And it’s shown how the importance of viewing IR...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...division on a ruler. It is only recently that technology has progressed enough to enable us to see atoms. Figure 1 was produced with a type of microscope that enables us to distinguish individual gold atoms. Different types of atoms combine in a number of ways to form the varying substances of matter. You might think there would need to be a huge number of different sorts...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...divisive nature of categories emerging from studying culture. He assumes that there are clear characteristics that all members of a group share, which distinguish them from other groups. It is also assumed that culture determines the way a group member acts, and thereby takes away the agency of the individual. Spencer-Oatey acknowledges the complexity of the notion of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...divisions and with outside suppliers and customers. The functional boundaries within firms are porous in a network system, as are the boundaries between firms themselves and between firms and local institutions such as trade associations and universities. (Saxenian, 1996, pp. 2–3) Saxenian suggests that Silicon Valley started to change from agriculture to high...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...Division was replaced by a new organisation that sold broadcast rights via a new television provider, making the English Premiership perhaps the richest football league in the world. Essentially the same product was repackaged and made available via paid-for subscription satellite TV. Organisational innovation – a new organisational method in business practices,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...divisions known as sectors. “The sectors are arc-shaped pieces of a track. Almost all file systems create sectors that can hold 512 bytes of data. The sectors are grouped together in clusters. So a cluster is a larger unit of memory whose size depends on the particular file system being used. A cluster always consists of one or more consecutive sectors, but typically...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs