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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...techniques have made it possible to record continuously physiological variables (such as heart rate) and information on depth and position during the spontaneous dives in the wild that are part of the animal's normal behaviour. Most such findings show that the majority of an animal's dives don't approach the 'Olympic record' limits that represent maximum effort. For...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...techniques covered in this course. These examples show you how to: use the DVM to calculate the expected return on a share use the DVM to calculate the expected return on a share using the share’s dividend yield find the equity risk premium (ERP) using: a dividend yield growth expectations for dividend yield and the risk-free rate. This is the third way of estimating an...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...techniques would work here?’ CONCERNED CITIZEN 2 ‘Have you ever heard of ‘Scared Straight’? They take young offenders into prisons and show them what the future holds for them if they don’t just smarten up and get their act together. That’s what we need to do… some real discipline!’ CONCERNED CITIZEN 3 ‘Mmm, I’m not so sure… And what evidence do we...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...techniques: reading for gist and scanning Reading for gist is about getting the general idea of what a particular text is about. Various clues such as the format, use of visuals or a specific style help the reader understand the genre and register of a text and grasp its overall meaning without needing to engage fully with grammar and syntax. This technique is also known...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...technique in which new musical material is presented. * Coda A passage that brings a piece to a close. * Extemporised Composed in the course of performance. A synonym of ‘improvised’. * Falsetto Most commonly, the weaker upper range of the male voice. * Form How music is organised in time by means of repetition, variation and contrast. * Instrumental music Music made...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...techniques in which to sort of put trousers on. August internally: I knew what he was about, really, so it was very easy to make the switch. Alex Garland In the case of The Beach, the protagonist, and I think there’s, it’s something that young writers or, maybe young is the wrong word, but first-time writers often do is that what they end up doing is they draw a lot...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...techniques to help them make sense of these data. Suppose you had information collected from, say, three thousand patients, all with the same medical condition but undergoing a variety of treatments. First you would need techniques for organising and describing the data, so that you could present a summary by giving just a few numbers. This is the function of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...technique called false colour, where colours are assigned to values of (in this case) temperature. Commonly, a so-called ‘cold’ dark colour, like black or deep blue, is assigned to areas of relatively low temperature, and a so-called ‘hot’ colour, like orange, to areas of higher temperature, with intermediate temperatures being represented by other colours. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs