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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...technique was subsequently criticised as being too crude to discriminate wild infection from the vaccine. 2 July 2002 Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, announces that he will opt for single vaccines for his as yet unborn child. 7 November 2002 Danish study of half a million infants finds that autism is no more prevalent in vaccinated vs unvaccinated children. 13 June 2003...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...techniques have also led to estimates that language is processed predominantly in the left hemisphere in about 97 per cent of right-handed people but in about only 60 per cent of left-handers. We argued in the previous section that the initial perception of speech, like that of other sounds, was carried out bilaterally, whereas in this section we have argued that language...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...techniques, studios could offer 4 daguerreotypes for 1 dollar. Photography was, however, a European invention. Western practitioners exported not only the technology but also European traditions of portraiture...Picturing the family: 3.1 Introducing ideology in portraiture - [Figure 9 A painting of a nobleman seated at a desk] Image 9 Photographer/Painter: French School....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...techniques have been around for many years in some fields, such as engineering where deterministic outcomes are possible, i.e. where the behaviour of the system may be modelled according to some physical or chemical laws. The codes of practice developed for these relatively simple risk situations have led to many improvements in society – buildings that stay standing...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...techniques, to manage your currency risk. Now, does this go on in the real world? What’s the experience at De La Rue? Paul Outridge: Yes, most certainly it does. Natural hedging, as we call it, essentially matching currencies of payables and receivables, is a key first line in managing currency exposures because that can be done at no cost. It reduces your net exposure...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...techniques which may go alongside other teaching content. And then I think finally more broadly, I think, as a way of working, I think we are continuing with many of our meetings conducted online. That we are more flexible in the working conditions we are able to offer staff with more working from home. And it's important, I think, that we do still have opportunities...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...technique implies that bureaucracy cannot be burdened any longer with justice. (Ellul, 1964, p. 295) In this powerful statement the French sociologist Jacques Ellul focuses on the shifts that he saw occurring during the twentieth century, due, in large part, to an increasingly central role played by machines and technology. While the specific arguments that Ellul makes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...technique used by writers to express opinions and avoid making unsupported generalisations consider the importance of reliable evidence to support claims...How to be a critical reader: 1 What is critical reading? - The following activities will introduce you to critical reading as you start to apply the questioning approach outlined in the Introduction...How to be a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs