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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...simple question: how do we know that another person is conscious? Half a century ago, if your heart stopped beating you could be pronounced dead even though you may have been entirely conscious as the doctor sent you to the morgue. This, in all likelihood, accounts for notorious accounts through history of those who ‘came back from the dead’. As a corollary, those who...
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Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...simple transcript may be sufficient; for more complex material the transcript may need to be synchronised with the visual flow, or provided as time-linked captions within the video frame itself. Visual material needs to be described for blind and partially sighted people. This includes any writing presented in an image format, such as a picture of a manuscript or a...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...code, potentially worth billions of dollars, had also been stolen. Adobe was forced to change the log in details of every one of its users and to greatly improve its own security. And, of course, users sued Adobe for not protecting their information. Is Adobe alone, or are other companies holding valuable data but not protecting it properly? Attacking industrial systems...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...simple tasks as remembering a phone number. Pronunciation improves listening. The mouth teaches the ear. Learning pronunciation “in the mouth” improves discrimination “in the ear”. According to a behaviourist view of language learning, the ear teaches the mouth so that listening comes before speaking, but the reverse is also true. Students of languages become...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...code (average population around 30,000 in this data). The share of white Americans rating Trump 10 out of 10 rises from just over 25 percent in locales with no ethnic change to almost 70 percent in places with a 30-point increase in Latino population. The town of Arcadia in Wisconsin – fittingly a state that has flipped to Trump – profiled in a recent Wall Street...
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‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...code, and this required them to provide financial compensation to the country of origin, if they actively recruited their qualified staff. This code also included equal rights for migrant workers in terms of pay, training and professional development, which made recruiting from abroad very costly (Mackintosh, Raghuram and Henry 2006). Many overseas nurses’...
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Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...simple: build a tunnel. He was consulting engineer for the pioneering Standedge tunnel on the Huddersfield narrow canal – at over 5km long and 200m above sea level, it’s still the both the longest and highest canal tunnel in the UK, and one of the so-called seven wonders of the waterways. Given the technology and understanding at that time, it was an extraordinary...
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Why is it dangerous when Trump sees people as objects?
Languages

Why is it dangerous when Trump sees people as objects?

...simple: Present his remarks as innocuous. To do so he used a combination of denial (“I didn’t say that [I sexually assaulted women] at all”); bolstering, a strategy speakers use to associate themselves with something or someone that the audience views positively (“I respect women and women respect me”); differentiation, which speakers use to reframe what the...
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