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Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...carbon dioxide gas, it is also possible for scientists to measure temperatures within the atmosphere, not just at the cloud tops. This is done by a careful calculation of the amount of IR radiation expected to be seen at a whole series of frequencies for a particular distribution of temperatures all the way along the line of sight. That distribution of temperatures is...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...carbonated drink. Obviously, there’s water. There may be some additional flavours. There are, on some drinks, some stabiliser and preservative systems. On other drinks, it’s entirely aseptic, so the main ingredient there is no bugs in the manufacturing environment. So primary ingredients, that’s the liquids and the syrups. The primary packaging will be your preforms...
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...carbon atoms do not have time to form the equilibrium phase, cementite, instead causing the austenite to undergo a shear transformation to martensite, preventing the movement of dislocations, hardening the metal and making it brittle. * Raw material: Unprocessed feedstock. Anything that can be sourced and, often together with other raw materials, converted into a product....
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...carbon monoxide poisoning should the country be invaded, for Leonard was Jewish and both were on the Nazis’ register for execution. Their London homes in Tavistock Square and Mecklenburgh Square, which housed their Hogarth Press, were bomb damaged; Woolf sorted through the chaos to salvage her diaries. At their country home in Rodmell, Sussex on 2 October 1940 she...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...carbon, oxygen and others are made in the cores of stars during stellar nucleosynthesis, then dispersed into the wider Universe when stars die. The material in the Universe that we can actually see, or detect directly by virtue of the electromagnetic radiation that it emits or absorbs, comprises components such as galaxies, stars, planets, gas and dust. These visible...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...carbon emissions associated with our current lifestyle, and the ongoing and unprecedented climate change associated with it, provide a clear example of a complex situation where there is widespread agreement about several actions that would be systemically desirable. Nonetheless, we collectively stick to a course of action that is expected to lead to catastrophe because...
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...carbon dioxide out of the space module’ so as to impede an imminent death for the astronauts (Crossan, 1998, p. 598). In the end, a solution was found within six hours and the Apollo 13 capsule was able to make it back safely to Earth. This is a good example of teamwork linked to leadership-as-practice. It was through the collaboration of different group members, for...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...carbon dioxide), CH4 (methane) and N2O (nitrous oxide). Fire and fire management are becoming increasingly important issues for ecosystem management...Fire ecology: 1.1 The effects of fire on an ecosystem - Given the 2020 wildfires on Australia and the obvious devastation they have caused, the perception of wild fires is often that they are destructive disturbances....
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs