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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...energy in mentoring based on your ongoing personal development? Do you provide feedback that people find helpful for their professional development? Inspiration Do you articulate a compelling vision, build group pride, and foster a positive emotional tone? Do you lead by bringing out the best in people? Do you have credibility with others? Teamwork Do you solicit input...
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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...energy, leading to economies of scale and even greater production efficiency under more readily controlled conditions. The combination of better soaps and advances in plumbing, including running water and drainable bathtubs, made bathing the social norm. In 1853, Gladstone repealed the British tax on soap that had been imposed centuries earlier and the industry...
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Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world

...energy that’s used by microbial life. More recently, the James Webb Space Telescope detected carbon dioxide on the moon’s ice surface, within a region of chaos terrain. This carbon dioxide is proposed to have originated from the ocean beneath. Carbon is one of the bioessential elements for life, making astrobiologists even more excited to learn more about Europa. In...
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An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...energy per coulomb of charge (J C−1)...An introduction to electronics: 2.2 Relationships between quantities - For many materials, current and voltage are directly proportional to each other over a wide range of values, with the resistance as the constant of proportionality, so voltage = current × resistance Such materials are said to obey Ohm’s law and are said to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...energy analysis and life-cycle assessment. If you are familiar with these concepts you will recognise the importance of defining how far one should extend the boundary of study. Figure 1 represents the range of risk scenarios within system boundaries. You will see spatial dimensions of the system boundaries implicit in Figure 1 in practical contexts when we review several...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...energy the main drainage of London; and the other, to keep the Thames in the meantime from destroying the dwellers on its banks. - The Morning Chronicle, 20-07-1859 WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? If the Chronicle was hoping to only have to endure a couple of stinky summers, it was going to be disappointed - the sewer work would drag on until 1865, and the Victoria Embankment - the...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...energy to make them work. Likewise, Katharina Freud et al’s chapter on MOOCs draws attention to the ‘labour iceberg’ of MOOC delivery and the way the MOOC marketplace may lead to some voices, content and forms of knowledge being privileged over others. These perspectives draw further attention to the complexities of work within the neoliberal university context....
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Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...energy of women. Poems 94 and 96 utilise a rich canvas of language with natural imagery as metaphor for female eroticism. Yet Sappho’s account of women’s sexuality, unlike Euripides’, shows a largely positive approach towards female passion. Importantly, too, there is also recognition of how women can demonstrate virtue through marriage. This idea is found in a...
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