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Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...types of assets which could be held as liquidity. Under the previous regimes, liquidity could, at least in part, be held in the form of bank debt (such as certificates of deposit) and company debt (commercial paper). Yet these assets proved to be non-liquid during the financial crisis and were thus deemed to be inappropriate for the new liquidity buffers. Under UK...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...types of specialist staff to ensure that their bodies and minds are prepared for competition in as scientific a manner as possible. Away from the elite level, there is also an increasing awareness of the benefits of a sound scientific basis to sport, training and even just basic health. Many ordinary people training in local sports centres and gymnasiums can name all...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
How can you exercise safely in the heat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you exercise safely in the heat?

...des Sables, a five-day run across the Sahara Desert in Morocco, where temperatures can reach 50℃. This 156-mile run is considered the toughest foot race on Earth. Our experience at Kingston University with people running and training in our heat chamber for events such as the Marathon des Sables and Badwater, demonstrates that with enough preparation, hydration and...
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Article 5 mins
Week 5 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 5 Civilisations: The debate

...types of ‘Renaissances’ were taking part all over the world, creating some astonishing works of art and architecture. This was a time when objects, commodities, ideas, designs, and technologies circulated over long distances, crossed boundaries and travelled between cultures, with significant consequences for the visual arts. Which brings us to the discussion (which...
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Article 5 mins
Medical uses of genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Medical uses of genetic testing

...types of genetic testing used specifically for medical purposes. Diagnostic genetic tests can be used to confirm whether someone has a particular genetic condition, which might be suspected if they have specific symptoms or features of a genetic disorder. In contrast, predictive genetic testing can tell us a person’s risk of developing a certain condition in future,...
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Video 8 mins
The dot.com bubble
Society, Politics & Law

The dot.com bubble

...Types of economic bubbles Intrinsic bubbles, informational bubbles, classic bubbles and fads are all the results of over valued products. The dot.com boom Tom Hadfield was only 12 years old when he set up the internet sensation Soccernet, by the time he was 17 years old he sold the company to ESPN for $40million dollars. Does the media fuel bubbles? The dot.com bubble...
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Audio 39 mins
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...phrase ‘alternative facts’ in defence of the White House press secretary’s (disputed) claim about the size of the crowds lining the National Mall in Washington DC to witness Trump's inauguration in January 2017 (Swaine, 2017). This free short course will provide you with an introduction to the main themes of Nineteen Eighty-Four. You will focus on the distinctive...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...types of engineering (Cameron 2018). Between 1961 and 1963 Hamilton worked as a programmer on the US Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defence system at MIT’s Lincoln Lab (Mindell 2008) and this is where she became interested in and learned much about the reliability of software (Spicer 2017), being able to make a previously inoperative radar system actually...
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Article 5 mins