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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...autonomous already exist: they can learn, communicate and teach each other. They can navigate their way around our world and be linked to extremely powerful computers that will give them a processing capacity well beyond that of humans. How did scientists develop the technology to produce AI machines? Mankind has always been fascinated by how the mind works and fascinated...
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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...autonomous individuals are governed in them. Feminism looks at the distinctive position of women and at the production of differences and inequalities of gender, through the power relations of welfare structures and personal interactions of individuals. In addition, this course highlights key aspects of a neo-liberal approach, in particular neo-liberalism's concern with...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...autonomously; unlike living organisms). [Morphology diagram and approximate relative size of different families of viruses] Figure 1. Morphology and approximate relative size of different families of viruses. Viruses consist of DNA or RNA that is often tightly associated with proteins to give more stability. The genetic material (DNA or RNA) can be contained within...
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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...autonomic physics that gives you the structure of each individual planet. For your model of the solar system you could have a rather simple description of gravity, and that would be sufficient for what you’re trying to look at. ADAM RUTHERFORD: So it’s a way of plugging in multiple observations, and then making predictions about what will happen based on what we’ve...
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Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...autonomous patient-centred care and services. In this alternative model of health care delivery, the dying person is actively encouraged to be the primary decision maker. However, the extent to which dying people can unilaterally decide on such things as length of stay is limited...Death and medicine: Postponement and promise: 3 Problems with quantification - One of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...autonomic nervous system (Figure 17). The sympathetic innervation originates from the thoracic portion of the spinal cord and synapses onto the bronchiolar smooth muscle. Stimulation of these nerves causes bronchodilation. Question 13 Bronchodilation Select the answer for Question 13 Bronchodilation here What happens to airway resistance during bronchodilation? it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...autonomous being. She determines and differentiates herself in relation to man, and he does not in relation to her; she is the inessential in front of the essential. He is the Subject; he is the Absolute. She is the Other. The duality between Self and Other can be found in the most primitive societies, in the most ancient mythologies… No group ever defines itself as One...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...autonomous powers for the government of the province and special recognition of its francophone culture. Recently, Kurdish parties and leaders have broadly accepted that the predominantly Kurdish regions within Iraq, which might potentially be part of an independent state of Kurdistan, should instead be semi-autonomous regions within the federal, post-Saddam Iraq (see...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs