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Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...accounts for 20,847 deaths, more than one-third of the world’s total, giving it the highest incidence of rabies globally. [Louis Pasteur conducting an experiment while investigating rabies] Pasteur injects a rabbit with rabies as part of his work into the causes of rabies Rabies is a vicious killer, a virus transmitted through saliva. Any warm-blooded mammal is...
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...account, published in 1993. Derek Taunt An example of a prime snippet of secret knowledge which we had to keep to ourselves concerned the Bismarck, which had been sunk some three months before my arrival in Hut 6. I was told that its whereabouts at a critical moment had been revealed in an Enigma message to a high-ranking German Air Force officer, whose son was aboard the...
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Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...accountants placed its value at US $24.91 billion (Wolfram Alpha, 2016a). Why the difference? Is this just accountants being prissy? Well, no. Accountants like to work on the realised value of the company, called book value; that is the total value of its tangible assets: its property, computers, manufacturing plant etc. In contrast, shareholders value the things in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...account for their easy statements of equal rights...Rights and justice in international relations: 3.1 Introduction - As this history might suggest, defining and conceptualising rights is not straightforward. This section aims to provide a working definition of ‘rights’ and introduce some important debates about rights. It aims to supply some conceptual tools to use...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...accountable global governance and grassroots participation. The final brief section is in three parts. It takes the three views outlined in Section 2 and looks at cases and arguments to see how each sees sustainability being arrived at. Section 4 attends to the idea of sustainability in practice. The conclusion ties up some of the threads of the chapter by reflecting on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...accounts of motor accidents. Hence, we tend to overweight the incidence of motor accidents. Similarly, in organisational life we are inclined to give more weight to information that is easily available. Question 3 Making estimates £56,118 million £19,697.2 million 4,000 $71,035 million 230,448 sq km How many of the correct answers fell within your upper and lower...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...account of what gives opium its power to induce sleep in those who ingest it: it has this power, he says, because of its virtus dormitiva, i.e. its ‘soporific virtues, the tendency of which is to lull the senses to sleep’ (Molière [1673] 1879?, 73–4). The point of the parody is that the doctor has merely introduced a fancy-sounding name for the thing that needs to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...account. One such dimension in those descriptions is fitness for purpose – and how this can be established. The other dimension is the design rationale, i.e., the explicit articulation and capture of the reasons behind and justifications for decisions made when designing an artefact, including alternatives considered and trade-offs. Hall and Rapanotti (2009) have...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs