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The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...solid construction of the building. Yet, the abbey was eventually taken by soldiers attacking on foot, months after the bombing, although with a high cost of life. Perhaps the additional reinforcements which arrived through April and May would have been successful even if the abbey was still intact? The fundamental question is whether or not imperative military necessity...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...liquid can be pumped between the two layers of the boot. With this device, the temperature of the hind feet could be altered without affecting deep-body or brain temperature. It was found that, irrespective of T hy, cooling the hind feet stimulated an increase in the metabolic heat response. This observation implies that the mechanism governing the set-point may not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
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Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...liquid to solid) and literacy (reading the recipe). Other homework the children talked about covered some of these curriculum subjects: Design a board game: maths and art. Nature walk: science, geography and sustainability. Fit body through piece of A4 paper: design and technology. The homework to make a board game and fit your body through a piece of A4 paper also...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...solid and steady mount together with an accurate means of pointing in a specific direction will be required...Week 2: Telescopes and visual observing: 2.2 Telescopes - The next obvious step up from binoculars is a telescope and these come in a wide variety of sizes and types as well as in different combinations of mirrors, lenses and mounting systems. The next video gives...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...solid base of friends. And you don't want to get that reputation as a person that, don't ask her. She won't come out because she hasn't gotten any money. So I think it's just getting the balance. And it does, obviously, once you kind of establish a group of friends at university, I think it then becomes a bit more acceptable to say, actually, no. I don't want to go out,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...solid lump, in fact. Thus, we can say that the chassis tub connects to an infinitely stiff structure at six mounting points. We say that, under any load condition on the tub, the back end mountings are going nowhere. We assign them a boundary condition restraint of zero displacement in all three directions, x, y, and z. That’s restraining the tub. The load is applied at...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...solid waste, or excrement) occur when pathogens from faeces enter the mouth (‘oral’ [orr-ahl]) and multiply in the gut. Transmission occurs when unclean hands, dirty cooking utensils or food contaminated by faeces enters the mouth. Flies can transfer pathogens from faeces to food via their feet. Contact with faeces is unavoidable when people are forced to defecate in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...solid base from which to move on to Week 2. In Week 2, you’ll return to problem solving and learn about a new operation – finding the power of a number. You’ll also look at how to round numbers and how to use a calculator. You should now feel that you can: tackle maths activities with more confidence use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs