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Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...writing down music that is different from those of Western music. The example in Figure 4 is a score for the qin or Chinese lute. Figure 5 P. Jurgenson, n.d. (1892), Plate 17668 In Western culture we may be used to seeing scores like the final example in Figure 5, but scores are not always like this...Week 1: Understanding the principles of musical scores: 1.1.1 How do...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...Writing for Mother Jones, Samantha Michaels explains just how far short of creating a male/female dichotomy sciences falls: Between 2011 and 2015, the IAAF had a rule that any woman with less than 10 nanomoles of testosterone per liter of blood could compete in women's events—a cap that it said left plenty of wiggle room for almost all female athletes. But not everyone...
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...writings of Southey and his friend Coleridge: the Aeolian wind-harp, for example, which draws its harmonies directly from Nature herself. Davy also took enthusiastically to experimenting on his own. On full moon nights in particular, he would wander down the Avon Gorge with a bulging green silk air-bag and notebook, inhaling the gas under the stars and scribbling snatches...
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...write for them. Similarly, although smaller devices like smartphones can have accessibility issues, some disabled people became early adopters due to their power for portable text-to-speech and later speech recognition capabilities. Some of these disabled early adopters became very knowledgeable about what could be achieved and used their knowledge to become independent...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...write the number beside any statement below which you think disproves it. We have made a start with point (1) for you. View document Discussion From this extract you can see the range of things babies are capable of. In contrast with the statements you considered in Activity 1, you can see that babies have very sensitive skin, they are startled by sudden noises and they...
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...write down everything you did in a recent activity. This could be something you completed at work, while volunteering or spending time with your family, or in your community or other position. For each task, note down roughly how much time you spent on this (either actual time in hours or as a percentage of the day). You will return to this list in Activity 2. Here is a...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...write it on paper. [The figure shows the display on a calculator screen.] Figure 4 ‘Math’ mode...Using a scientific calculator: 1.1 Basic calculations - Basic calculations are entered into the calculator in exactly the same order as they are written on paper, as demonstrated in the following activity. The calculator displays the calculation that you enter. When you...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...write, people learn how these sounds and symbols can be combined in a meaningful way to communicate our ideas and emotions. As you read in the excerpt from the book Sapiens at the beginning of this week, this ability is what sets us apart from other species. Our use of symbols to communicate is not restricted to words. Hand gestures and facial expressions are also...