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The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...artificially extending the athlete's arm), increasing the javelin's rotation (thus making it more stable in the air) and accelerating the projectile over a longer distance. Animation 5 javelin throw Please note that this animation contains nudity in order to give a more realistic representation of the Ancient Olympic games. Javelin throw Wrestling Wrestling (pale) was...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...artificial example. Interviewer Sure. Maria Fernández-Ferreira If you have – for example – a method for conducting an auction online, OK? So you have the technical infrastructure behind. So you need to have a network of computers. You might even need to solve technical problems concerning, for example, submitting a bid. However, if your invention lays on defining a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Artificial speech using just two formants is comprehensible, though in real speech there are higher formants too. These higher formants reflect idiosyncracies of the vocal tract, and thus are very useful in recognising the identity of the speaker and the emotional colouring of the speech. Some of the vowels of English have a simple flat formant shape, like the /a/ and /i/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...artificial digital tone. The reason for this is that the MP3 developers decided to limit the audio bandwidth to approximately 16 kHz for 128 kbit s−1 and only approximately 8 kHz for 64 kbit s−1. Activity 16 Exploratory This activity ‘Perceptual sensitivity and masking’ allows you to explore some audio examples of the relative hearing sensitivity response of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...artificial device, as few individuals are so good or so bad as to fit neatly into either category. As historians, therefore, we need to aim for a more balanced assessment, which takes into account not just the actions or beliefs of the individual in question, but also the contexts and environments in which they operated. This brings me onto another key theme in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...artificial. For example, shifts in demographics and changes in the lives of women shaped health and welfare policies; the mass media was a vehicle through which to debate change, but also a tool to promote it; and the experience of all these features of modern life was arguably most intense within the urban environment. Two issues, derived from the historiography, will...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...artificial atmosphere to sustain the crew. (b) Outside the space craft, where there is a vacuum and the crew need to wear space suits to survive. (c) On a planet where there is a poisonous atmosphere and where the crew need to wear space suits (which are not soundproof). Answer (a) Sound would be conveyed by the atmosphere within the craft, so the slogan does not apply...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...intelligent boy, but he has an awful lot of problems with fine motor skills. He really isn't interested in writing at the moment. And he's still very much at the scribbling stage. But because we have allowed him to work and develop at his own pace, we can say that there has been a good improvement. This was Jack in September. And here, he was supposed to be practising the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs