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Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...variable itself is very important. So in our work we’re interested in how this early attunement predicts attachment security. But I think we’re beginning to realise now that the idea that attachment predicts pretty much every aspect of the child’s development is certainly wrong and the evidence is not there to suggest that knowing the child’s attachment status at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...de rigueur, whereas staying with a company for over three years becomes more acceptable with age. As employees hit the content and loyal period (55 plus), they are at their happiest in terms of working life. People have progressed to a level they are content with, or are resigned to the fact they may not go further, and so are less focused on getting ahead. The highest...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...De Wolff and Van IJzendoorn, 1997), namely, the extent to which the caregiver is attentive to the infant’s state, behaviour and communication, and responds appropriately. It might be expected that caregiver personality differences would thus be found to be associated with infant attachment security, but here again few direct effects have been found (Egeland and Farber,...
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Article 15 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...classes in history), for an individual to commit themselves to writing a diary or journal. Similar constraints apply to writing an autobiography, and memoirs are most often compiled by those who have enjoyed fame in their lifetime. Also, especially with regard to those diaries and autobiographies which are published, we must ask whether the account tallies with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...variable, though, depending on the cell type used and the species. More than 10 different cell types have been used successfully as “parents” for cloning. These days most cloning is done using cells obtained by biopsying skin. More than genes can affect a clone Genetics is only part of the story. Even while clones are genetically identical, their phenotypes – the...
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Article 10 mins
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...variability seen in living species and the effects of artificial selection on domesticated animals to support his argument that such gradual change was the way of evolution. The problem with the fossil record, he suggested, was its incompleteness – like a book from which all but a few pages had been torn, such that life's history had to be reconstructed from the few...
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Article 10 mins
Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...variables approach. Given the total number of the outgoing CEO’s children, how many of them happen to be boys is as good as random. This gives us a neat instrument for dynastic CEO successions: we find that outgoing CEOs who have at least one son are about 30 percentage points more likely to keep the firm in the family than those who had no boys. Figure 2: Outgoing CEOs...
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Article 5 mins
Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs
Languages

Die Kapuzinergruft: Burial ceremonies of the Habsburgs

...des Körpers wurde dann feierlich in der Kapuzinergruft begraben. Translation: When a Habsburg died, first of all - for purely practical reasons - the intestines were removed. They start decaying first and would have exuded a very unpleasant smell during the funeral ceremonies. Then the heart was removed. The heart is seen as the seat of the soul, and this heart was then...
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