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Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...sang a different pitch which formed the harmony. This moved together with the melody and created block chords. Audio 5 was polyphonic. The singers sang different melodies which interwove to form a pleasing harmony. Audio 31 was an example of a monophonic texture with a single, unaccompanied singer...Week 4: Texture, dynamics and structure: 1.3 Creating dynamic change in...
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...et al., 2019). Despite the use of multiple terms to describe resilience, there is consensus among researchers that resilience is best understood when examined in a particular context as models of resilience developed in other domains, such as business, might not be transferable, for example to sport (Wagstaff et al., 2017). In simple terms, resilience is ‘the ability to...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...et al., 2005). Findings by Wang (2001) indicate that people in the US tend to recall events and experiences from a slightly younger age than people in China. The age of the earliest reported memory for participants in the US was around 42 months, whereas in China it was 47.5 months. This, of course, does not mean that people in the US have better memories. It merely means...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...circulates, but reach many more cellular targets in different tissues. The transfer of information from one neuron to the next is mediated by complex structures called synapses, which are essentially formed by a presynaptic terminal (neuron 1), a synaptic cleft (the tiny gap between the two neurons) and a postsynaptic membrane (neuron 2). When electrical signals reach the...
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...double portrait in the National Gallery in London has attracted much attention in the fields of art history, philosophy and psychoanalysis, and has been the focus of landmark critical texts about subjectivity. The portrait, painted in 1533 while Holbein was serving as court painter of King Henry VIII, shows two French ambassadors to England: Jean de Dinteville on the left...
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...et cetera, really important, and really important throughout childhood. Not only actually for physical development but for children's mental and emotional health as well. Learning to play, learning to be outside with other children, all really important things for the happy, healthy childhood that we want our children to have. And, of course, conversely, if children...
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...et al’s definition of architecture based on the work by Shaw and Garlan: Software architecture encompasses the set of significant decisions about the organization of a software system including the selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the system is composed; behaviour as specified in collaboration among those elements; composition of these...
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...et al., 2012). The first fire started on the 27 June 2007 and the final fire was extinguished in early September 2007. The fires burnt through dry forests and vegetation, often moving quickly through the landscape (Athanaiou and Xanthopoulos, 2010). [Described image] Figure 2: A wildfire threatening the village of Podstrana, near the Adriatic coastal town of Split,...