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Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social work: Effective practice with substance abusing parents

...simple decision and highlight the challenges in making such decisions. How will the child experience the environment in the unit? Will this be better than the inconsistences inherent in the home situation? Would the child’s removal provide better protection? Will change be made by the parents? Will it be significant enough change? Will it be sustained? Again the...
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...simple revelation – the biggest single thing we can do to cut our digital carbon footprint is buy less and extend the usable lifetime of the things we already have. The remaining 20% comes from the energy required to use the product or service during its lifetime. While this 20% may seem like a worthless distraction in the face of the hefty 80%, as our usage of digital...
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Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?

...simple outlook and this linear approach has been questioned in relation to sports performance. Although deliberate practice is considered important the exact requirements of the type and amount of such practice remains in question. Currently the general consensus is that sampling a range of sports throughout childhood provides the best grounding for both progressing onto...
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The science of making musical instruments
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of making musical instruments

...simple, why do the sounds made by each instrument in an orchestra or band sound so different? The pitch is the degree of highness or lowness of a musical note. The pitch depends on how rapid the vibrations are i.e. how high the frequency is. A higher pitch has a higher frequency. [low and high pitched waveforms] The diverse sounds made by the instruments in each section...
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Number theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Number theory

...simple way of listing all the primes up to some number...Number theory: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: use, and understand the theoretical underpinnings of, mathematical induction understand and be able to apply the Generalised Principle of Mathematical Induction and the Second Principle of Mathematical Induction recognise the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...simple model for 'proper' female and male roles. (If you're not convinced, look up the various child rearing arrangements of, say, elephants, seahorses and Emperor penguins.) In fact, the term 'gender' originally came into widespread use in the social sciences to refer to those female-male differences which are given by society and perpetuated through upbringing, as...
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Learning from the Global South
Society, Politics & Law

Learning from the Global South

...simple message – that ‘geography matters’ to understanding the climate crisis more fully, how its impact is woven into issues of inequality and the lingering legacies of European colonialism – is then also taken up and explored in the third film. In this film, the contributors speak of their experiences in Bangladesh and Uganda when facing the issues and...
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Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...Simple and gentle, how hospitable they had all been to my vain inquiry, and how delicately they had forborne to visit the stranger with the irony of the average American who is asked anything, especially anything he does not know! I went thinking that the difference was a difference between human nature long mellowed to its conditions, and human nature rasped on its edges...
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