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Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...energy in the stand by mode. Energy consumption contributes to air and water pollution. We advise to [sic] switch off your TV overnight instead of leaving it on stand by. You save energy and the picture tube is demagnetised which maintains good picture quality. Discussion To examine this question we need to look at the way in which the text is put together. First of all,...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...energy. Being able to produce clear, readable, logical and well-argued pieces of writing is important in both university and in your working life. Precise & concise [Sketch of Blaise Pascal]Figure 7 Blaise Pascal (1623–1622)Show descriptionBlack and white portrait of Blaise Pascal. Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth-century mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher...
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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...energy (to change the temperature) if the desired and current temperatures are different. From general knowledge, you should be able to work out that if any of these activities is missing, then the system cannot operate as required. The model allows for both heating and cooling, and only specifies that a source of energy is needed to fulfil its activities. This type of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...energy that could power life? NARRATOR In our quest for the answers to the secrets of the universe, each moon can shed light on a different corner of the puzzle and bring us closer to new discoveries we could never have thought possible. PAUL SPUDIS It’s literally unlimited the amount of potential resources that we may find and use on the Moon. It’s really, the only...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...energy, high scaling, huge opportunities. And that's now, we're just on the take-off of this. And over the next two or three years, I think Fintech is going to be a priority sector with so much support from the Government and from a collective of companies that I really think it can fly. And for me, it's about making everybody aware that there could potentially be a job...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...energy and creativity into Labour’s general election campaign whenever it comes, it’s in this way that Labour can get back into government. Labour under my leadership will utilise the advances of digital technology to mobilise the most visible general election campaign ever. There is also a clear need for more online democracy and our manifesto today sets out how...
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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...energy, there needs to be a muscularity about the language of a play. The characters, something has got to impel somebody on from the wings, and they've got to be impelled to tell somebody who often on stage is twenty feet away from them, and they've got to be impelled to tell them something. So it's a world of quite strong needs. A camera can discover somebody and they...
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Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...energy expended for distance travelled) as the running of land animals. Swimming at the surface is less efficient, however, as is the swimming of semi-aquatic mammals such as otters. It appears that economic running and swimming are difficult to combine in the same animal...Aquatic mammals: 2.4 Staying warm … - Water has a higher specific heat than air: that is, it...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs