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Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...determine the nature and extent of existing and potential threats. Countermeasures to the perceived threats must balance the degree of security to be achieved with their acceptability to system users and the value of the data systems to be protected. Activity 1 Think of an organisation you know and the sort of information it may hold for business purposes. What are the...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...determined not just by their ideas about women but also by their ideas about class boundaries and the nature of marriage. They share misogynistic views of the sexuality of widows and the patriarchal assumption that they have the right to dictate their sister’s sexual destiny. But these attitudes are all bound up with their belief that marriage is a union between a man...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...determine how a substance behaves in a chemical reaction. Many of the physical properties of minerals can be predicted from a detailed knowledge of their crystal structures, which can be obtained by various analytical techniques. Alternatively, physical properties can be used to infer particular aspects of a mineral's internal structure. Several physical properties of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...determine the knowledge gaps and understand your knowledge needs. These in turn guide your research methodology. Research methodology – designing the research methodology to collect the evidence required to meet your knowledge needs. In law you may choose to draw upon one or more of the following methods: doctrinal, socio-legal, comparative, international, historical,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...determinant of how people learn, so before you read on, I would like you to record some of what you are experiencing now as you begin the unit. It's important to get these impressions noted down now, because new ideas and new impressions will quickly overlay the experience. What you are experiencing now will be re-interpreted as new understandings emerge. You are also...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...determined? how does understanding management of human impacts change depending on what is meant by ‘environment’? Defining environmental management is perhaps not as easy as you might first have expected. Drawing on the earlier discussion, the dictionary definition offers as many problems as it attempts to resolve, particularly around the focus on ‘human...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...determine the acceleration of the block. Recall that Newton’s second law states that force equals mass multiplication acceleration or cap f equals m times a full stop The block has a mass of a metric tonne ( one multiplication 10 cubed times kg ) and because it is made of ice we will ignore any forces due to friction. The force applied by Alice and Bob is bold a plus...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...determines the scope and potential for interventions. Note that both lenses enable us to examine and explain changes in Brett’s ‘rules that structure social interactions’...Seeing institutions in different ways: 1.6 A story of changing the rules - I said earlier, introducing the idea of institutions as ‘rules’, that ‘different people will interpret the rules...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs