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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...determined by the amount of matter in it. The SI base unit of temperature is the kelvin, which is related to the everyday unit of temperature, the degree Celsius: (temperature in kelvin) = (temperature in degrees Celsius) + 273.15 The amount of a pure substance is expressed in the SI base unit of the mole. Whatever the smallest particle of a given substance is, one mole...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...determine the timbre or texture of the sound. [Figure 3] Courtesy of Daniel Nettle © Courtesy of Daniel Nettle Figure 3 Spectrogram of (a) a single note from a flute; and (b) a box being dropped on the floor. Black represents no acoustic energy at a given frequency. The ‘hotter’ the colour (i.e. towards the red or yellow end of the spectrum), the greater the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...determine from the choices presented to you which makes the most sense, i.e., the choices that are most reasonable. Activity 8 Use of test of reasonableness Select the answer for Question 1a here Choose the correct answer purely on what appears to be most reasonable. 126 / 7 = 18 180 0.18 a. 18 b. 180 c. 0.18 The correct answer is a. Select the answer for Question 1b here...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...determine the degree of priority given to different aspects of the risk scenarios in Figure 1. It should be clear from Figures 1 and 2 that the range of incidents a manager could examine, and similarly the range that we could consider in this unit, extends from disasters to relatively minor inconveniences. While the local event is of concern to most individuals, major...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...Determinants of the 1980s Fall in Union Recognition’, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 48(3), pp. 403–419. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2524771. Dymski, G.A. (2012) ‘The reinvention of banking and the subprime crisis: On the origins of subprime loans, and how economists missed the crisis’, Subprime cities: the political economy of mortgage markets,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...determine the time of year and helped to mark the passage of time between planting and harvesting. From these beginnings, the idea eventually came that the passage of stars across the heavens could be linked to predictions of a good harvest or a cold winter, etc. This developed into modern day astrology, but there is no science to suggest that the position of the stars...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...determine whether a depiction of, say, a flower or rising smoke, was actually intended to be interpreted in a particular way. Consider, for example, the following passage from a book by the Dutch writer Levinus Lemnius published in 1587, in which he observes that a man’s life can be compared to a Dreame, to a smoke, to a vapour, to a puffe of winde, to a shadow, to a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...determined to enrol in a local WeightWatchers group and join the gym...Obesity: balanced diets and treatment: 1.4 Obesity treatment - Obesity treatment is only successful if weight is reduced and maintained to within a desired range. There are three approaches to obesity treatment: changing behaviour and diet is the most common approach although drugs and surgery can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs