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Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...mode engaged. NARRATOR That found the parking spot-- MAN Find parking space. ELECTRONIC VOICE Parking space found. NARRATOR That alerted the door that opened the control room-- MAN Hey, Bob. NARRATOR That secured the data that directed the turbines that powered the sprinklers that watered the grass that fed the cow that made the milk that went to the store that reminded...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...mode, which can make the pace monotonous often means that the teacher is giving the students information that they could find out for themselves, thus making them less active and autonomous if the teacher takes the dominant role in classroom discourse, the students’ role is only that of respondent – opportunities for developing speaking skills or spontaneous speech...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...et cetera, et cetera. So it's either- some people see it as a good thing. It's different from what the West has done for 200 years in Africa. Some people will say, well, it's just the same as you know, Just because they're Chinese doesn't mean they're any different from what the West has done. So it's a kind of polarised position, and what we want to do with our own...
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...modes of presentation that can seriously hinder the investigation of changes over time. How important these failings are depends upon the purposes for which the statistics are to be used. A second set of problems that needs to be taken into account in the use of available statistics is the fact that the availability of particular sorts of data (and not others) may shape...
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...et al., 2002). In 1981, Carol Martin and Charles Halverson presented a new account of gender typing that drew on the ideas of earlier cognitive developmental accounts but included considerably more detail about the exact cognitive processes involved in gender development (Martin and Halverson, 1981). They proposed that the emergence of stereotypes in childhood was not...
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...et al., 2012) As illustrated by both social workers in the videos, making the link between personal experience and what social workers bring to their practice is an important early step towards their becoming a reflective practitioner. Good social work practice is primarily about relationships (Wilson et al., 2011) and engaging effectively with service users, carers and...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...et al., 2024); later on, another two physicians, Morgan and Hinshelwood (based on the work of German ophthalmologist Kussmaul, 1878) used the word to describe a kind of ‘word blindness’ where people had trouble reading. Wolf et al. assert that the first explanations were linked to the visual system. Nowadays, we know that dyslexia is not due to vision problems, but...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...et al., 2014, p. 4). This term is used to describe a variety of conditions children may experience, including mild, moderate to severe, and ensuing conditions ranging from anxiety or depression through to bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and eating disorders. Health promotion The World Health Organisation (2018) define health promotion as the process of enabling people to...