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Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...determining how far they can go to combat climate change and adapt to it? BH: Organisations like ours are involved in doing the technical work for countries and in our experience for the countries that we’ve worked for they determine how far they are ready to go. And sometimes they might go further than we think they should but that’s the decision of their governments...
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History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...determined his or her response to the text in question. At the same time, the emergence of the field of ‘book history’ brought new perspectives and research methods to the history of reading. So-called ‘hard evidence’ relating to texts was introduced to determine the size of the readerships of given works. Publishers’ archives have been mined for print runs,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...determining the next step. As expertise increases, the changes will accelerate. The antipattern would be to deploy a large-scale change across your complex organisation, changing hundreds or thousands of people’s roles and behavioural interactions at the same time...Introduction to business agility: 4 Pattern 3: Invite over inflict - Improving ways of working is a form...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...determine the structure of organic molecules for example, which provided information about chemical environments on the molecular scale, and imaging investigations that provide information about spatial location on a macroscopic scale. So, how is it possible to be able to identify from whereabouts in the body the excited hydrogen nuclei emit their NMR signals? In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...determines economic inequality understand why inequality matters for society know some of the proposed solutions to inequality understand some of the measures of economic success...Understanding economic inequality: 1 Introducing inequality - As a starting point for the discussion of inequality, consider the workings of a simple economy shown in Figure 1. [Described...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...determined is compared with the length of the ruler. Thermometers convert the condition of temperature into other physical things, such as a resistance, voltage or pressure; we say they are temperature transducers. The temperature 'reading' is really a graduated indication of one of those other physical quantities. It is not very useful until the instrument has been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...determining the response but also the type of target cell...Cell signalling: 1.5 Signal transduction mechanisms - Signalling information has to be transmitted from the receptor in the plasma membrane across the cytoplasm to the nucleus (if gene transcription is the response), the cytoskeleton (if cell movement, or another change to cell morphology, is the response), or...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...determined by the share of biomass of each stock within each EEZ, rather than the volumes of fish caught by each country over 30 years ago. It’s worth noting that the UK could have pushed to reform relative stability from within the EU and Common Fisheries Policy (and they might have used their influence within Brussels to more effect) so a car crash Brexit is hardly a...
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