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Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...type of activity they engage in. For example, individual activities are often preferred as they are easier to negotiate than participation in team sports which require commitment to set times and dates. Research with elite and recreational sportswomen From our own research with recreational netballers and elite winter sportswomen, there are common themes across both...
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...types of mammals that live in the trees. You will learn how they thrive in this demanding environment, with the help of a range of intriguing adaptations related to their unusual life-styles. This is the eighth in a series of units about studying mammals. To get the most from these units, you will need access to a copy of The Life of Mammals (2002) by David Attenborough,...
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...phrase which is often used to describe this absolutely vital feature of your work. Your work may involve all sorts of activities. But your success and effectiveness in securing resources and support will be very limited if you do not, in the midst of everything else, actually ‘make the ask’. This section deals with what is involved in making an individual,...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...type Ia supernovae showed that the expansion rate of the Universe is currently accelerating (speeding up). This is indicated by the fact that the trend-line shown in Figure 2 is not a straight line, but bends upwards at large distances and redshifts. Note that, by looking at objects further away in the Universe, we are also looking further back in time. This is because...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...type you have just read about in LoM have 'broken the rules' and adopted a much more wide-ranging diet? LoM Chapter 6 offers many examples of such opportunistic feeders and this course will tell you a good deal more about their biology, going beyond the level of detail that LoM provides. You'll know from LoM that omnivores have by definition a wide-ranging diet but,...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...types of data analysis tools allow an organisation to forecast future trends and behaviours agility – increasingly accurate predictions allow organisations to be more responsive and flexible to emerging marketplace trends and threats. Combining these three attributes allows organisations to better create, communicate, and deliver their offerings...Session 1: What is the...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Hot rolling
Science, Maths & Technology

Hot rolling

...types: Cross rolling Circular wedge tools used. Heated bar cropped to length fed in transversely between rolls. One revolution of rolls only. [Diagrams to demonstrate 'Hot rolling' - see article] Flat die Wedge tools are flat and dies are moved in one plane over each other. [Diagrams to demonstrate 'Hot rolling' - see article] Manufacture: The hot rolling of flat sheet is...
Article 5 mins
Orbital forging
Science, Maths & Technology

Orbital forging

...type of powder forging. Design: Process is used to produce components with large-diameter flanges up to 150 mm dia. Components include bevel gears, claw clutch parts, wheel discs with hubs, bearing rings, rings of various contours and bearing end-covers. An example is shown below. [Diagram to demonstrate 'Orbital forging' - see article] Minimum practical forging...