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Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...interface of the act of governing the project: governance, in the interests of the host organisation – governing the project that requires looking at the project from the perspective of the host organisation support, in the interest of the project – top management support that requires looking at the host organisation from the perspective of the project. (Crawford et...
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...interface type. In a large network, where many individual links may be used in a connection, traffic will need to be repeatedly encrypted and decrypted. One disadvantage is that while data is held at a node it will be in the clear (unencrypted) and vulnerable. Another is the need for a large number of keys along any path comprising many links. Hardware-based encryption...
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...interface between users and the underlying communication network. Some examples of end devices are: computers (workstations, laptops, file servers, and web servers) nsetwork printers VoIP phones TelePresence endpoints security cameras mobile handheld devices (smartphones, tablets, PDAs, and wireless debit/credit card readers and barcode scanners) sensors such as...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...interface that directs them to their temporary destinations. It manages what would otherwise be a cacophony of movement, sorting people, designating routes, creating decision points, and generally regulating the conduct of passengers. [MUSIC PLAYING] The airport is home to contrasting forms of attachment. Airports exist at specific locations, but are also unattached to...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...interface between humans and computers, and the domain experts, the faculty who teach statistics, chemistry, philosophy. This is not just about online courseware. It's really revolutionising how we think about learning, and how we think about teaching. We make learning environments, and learning environments include what a student might do with the computer. Speaker 1...
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...interface’ where Catholic and Protestant areas met? Yet of the 3,709 people who lost their lives to suicide between 1999 and 2014, 676 of them – nearly a fifth – were aged under 25. *** 31 July 1972. The day three bombs went off in Claudy, a small village in the Faughan Valley, six miles south-east of Derry City. That day, Siobhan O’Neill’s mother left her shop...
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...interface, between two different density regions away from the state it would have at rest, that is from where the surface would be if it were not moved. Another way to displace the boundary between fluids of two different densities is to simply throw a stone into a pond (Figure 1). [Described image] Figure 1 Ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. We can break down what...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...interfaces. Although a multidisciplinary approach uses the skills and knowledge from more than one academic discipline, the use of knowledge from different disciplines remains distinct, even though the differences between the disciplines can be quite subtle. For example, architects, engineers and quantity surveyors commonly work together on construction projects, each...