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Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...carbon dioxide. In dogs, foxes and other species that pant, evaporative cooling is promoted by opening the mouth; a simple mechanical device further increases the effectiveness of cooling by respiratory water loss. A valve at the back of the throat, driven by breathing movements, directs a large proportion of the air that was inhaled through the nose out through the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...footprints in it, so for a time nobody knew exactly where on Lenox Avenue she lived. But, like me, they knew who she was, who she had to be, because they knew that her husband, Joe Trace, was the one who shot the girl. There was never anyone to prosecute him because nobody actually saw him do it, and the dead girl’s aunt didn’t want to throw money to helpless lawyers...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...footprint. This means that people who don’t know you might be able to find you fairly quickly online through just a few searches. There are a couple of important implications of this. Firstly, you will also be able to find many other people by using the same techniques, including people with whom you might wish to network. Secondly, if people do locate your online...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...carbon monoxide). It is also increasingly common to assess social factors in determining feasibility; this is particularly true in projects undertaken in the under-developed world. These may range from social factors within a single group or office (for example, where a new technology is likely to be introduced) to broader social concerns about the effects of a project,...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...footprints and proceeded to eliminate suspects using clever detecting. They produced wanted posters, collected evidence in evidence bags, putting on protective gear in true CSI fashion. They made their own police notebooks and kept detailed timings and records of evidence found. One child who struggles with handwriting was overheard to say ‘we have to be neat, we...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...carbon dioxide (CO2) so they will feel faint. If they blow into a paper bag and then re-breathe from the paper bag they take in some of the CO2. It helps to slow down the breathing so that the person feels better. As the name suggests, anxiety disorders occur where the person feels unusually anxious, either in the short term or for a prolonged period. There are several...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...footprint and can be found to have been used before. You should cite your own work to show the source. This helps a reader work out what is new in your current writing. The authoring of work, which can now be aided by the use of tools using artificial intelligence, adds further complications to research integrity. While AI can help detect plagiarism, it also raises...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...carbon, obtained from sources such as lampblack, or soot on the bottom of cooking utensils, or ground charcoal. White came from chalk or gypsum, resulting in two distinct types: a kind of creamy white often used for backgrounds, and a brighter, shinier white used for items such as clothes and jewellery. Red and yellow were derived from naturally occurring ochres (these...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs