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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...Aluminium 1970s –? Information and communication technology Computers Telecommunications Software CIM New materials ISDN IT services 2000s –? Life sciences Biotechnology Space/satellites Environmental technologies ? As you will note from Table 2 and the quotation from Castells (1996), the ICT paradigm was, therefore, the fifth wave – or techno-economic paradigm....
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...sand z, as in ciu-dad (city), car-ta (letter). Stops are much rarer and often simplified or weakened in colloquial speech, e.g. ac-to (act), sig-no (sign). In complex codas, the second consonant is always s, e.g. trans-crip-ción (transcription). It is interesting to note that while words such as vaho [ba-o] (mist), búho [bu-o] (owl) – where two adjacent vowels belong...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...cast-off uniforms or overalls which were considered unsuitable for the combat troops. Due to the lack of preparation for the war, some of the early African-American units were kitted out in old Union “Blues” – Civil War-era uniforms, dug out of the stores by an enterprising quartermaster. The men who wore those uniforms, the sons and grandsons of slaves, went off to...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...casting light on the growing significance of investment wealth in the population as a whole, the data set allows us to investigate with confidence the significance of gender in understanding patterns of shareholding and, in turn, how this was shaped by wider, legal, financial and cultural change. The specification of this methodology along with the construction of a major...
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...cast in the referendum and to highlight some of the tensions associated with the UK as a multinational state – and England as a particular nation within it. By the end of this week, you will be able to: assess the arguments that London has a distinctive and determinant role within the economy and politics of the UK understand how the development of London affects the...
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...casts a piece of bread and positions itself in exactly the right place to deceive a fish. But is this deception learnt through trial and error? PROF. CECILIA HEYES Animals could certainly come to deceive through associative learning. In that case, they wouldn’t be deceiving with the knowledge that they leave the deceived with a false belief. They simply learn that if...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...cast in the role of the seducer and Carracci as the restorer of the arts to a new dignity. (Gombrich, 1966, pp. 100–1) ‘Decline’ after renaissance has been associated with both the Mannerist and Baroque styles which label the subsequent periods (Mannerism c.1510–20 to 1600; Baroque 1600–1750). In the following extract consider how one particular author, S.J....
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...sand. There’s hammocks. There’s all those sorts of things. There’s nothing saying this is boy, this is girl. It’s there for everyone and the children use it in their own way. I think outdoors, it’s neutral. I think the outdoor environment is so rich in what’s out there for the children to use and they use their imaginations rather than picking up something...