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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...data, which the risk factor analysis is based on, is perceptions about notions of risk from young people themselves or from the practitioners within the youth justice system, which may be completely at odds with what seems to be indicated by quantitative research. So, in other words, it generalises probabilities to specific individuals and, as I’ve said, it may create a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Embedding mental wellbeing in higher education through inclusive curricula and pedagogy
Education & Development

Embedding mental wellbeing in higher education through inclusive curricula and pedagogy

...data and evaluation criteria A survey sent to a larger cohort of students and staff to invite input into the barriers and solutions identified, as well as ideas for evaluation criteria and measures. My study aims to facilitate students and practitioners to critically examine their institution, to identify barriers to wellbeing and solutions that the institution can adopt....
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An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...data, facilitating progress in several long-standing challenges (including visual object recognition and machine translation). Note this timeline begins in 1950, although it is possible to find important precedents in the first half of the 20th Century. For a more detailed timeline, see the BBC’s ‘15 key moments in the story of Artificial Intelligence’. However,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...analysis from three scholars. [Chris Christie] Chris Christie Candidates and media spar, but Americans get their moment Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management We were promised a debate over economic issues, but what we got for the first hour was protracted sparring between TV interviewers posing gotcha questions hoping to egg on candidates to attack each other and...
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Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...analysis of time-varying signals represented in both the time and frequency domain use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal...Electronic applications: 1 Electronics everywhere - Begin by considering the following situation: You are sitting at home watching the television, and a woman in a diving suit, surrounded by sharks is speaking directly to you,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...data from 6,711 participants, to investigate the influence of portion, package and tableware size on food consumption. These results are published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The data showed that people consistently consume more food and drink when offered larger-sized portions, packages or tableware than when offered smaller-sized versions, suggesting...
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Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...data, there is not much of a difference between the functional role of Arabic and English. Having said that, there seems to be a general pattern that is emerging in the data that English – or rather switches from Arabic into English – is used to take up ‘expressive’ stances, particularly positive ones. This pattern is particularly marked when it comes to...
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Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...data sets challenge the limits of ‘humanly generated’ data. We need experimental, multiple methods for knowing the social; and we need to reflect about the consequences of how we know the social. [Painting of bodies by Elizabeth Silva] This blog series 'Methods in Motion', which I have edited since September 2016, has aimed to gather experiences in creating knowledge...
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Article 5 mins