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Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...Alphabet (Google’s parent company), and ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company) providing ‘free’ services, using the content created by its user to increase its engagement, relying on user content and data to provide detailed advertising, which is one of their most important sources of revenue as illustrated in Figure 9 (Alphabet Inc, 2024; Meta Platforms Inc, 2024;...
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. And that sequence of note names recurs across the keyboard, so you can find it down here: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, followed by: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and then again: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A. Most keyboards like this electronic one don’t begin and end on A. Instead they begin and end on C. So on this keyboard the lowest note is C, and the...
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...alphabet of the Church language – Latin – to write their own Gaelic vernacular. English and Gaelic have thus shared a similar alphabet for a very long time but, of course, the Latin letters had to be adapted to portray sounds which were not necessarily of identical quality in each language. Anglophone readers soon learn that the English ‘rules’ which relate...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Alphabet (IPA). Sequences of speech transcribed in IPA are enclosed in slash brackets, / /, or square brackets, [ ], to distinguish them from ordinary text. Many of the letters of the IPA have more or less the same value as conventional English spelling. For example, /s/, /t/, /d/ and /l/ represent the sounds that you would expect. The IPA is always consistent about the...
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...alphabetical order. The bibliography of Welsh history allows you both to pursue your own interests by discovering further reading and to gain an overview of the scope of Welsh historical scholarship...Welsh history and its sources: 2.1 Introduction - Each of the selections in this section is taken from one of the volumes in the Welsh history and its sources series. Each...
Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...alphabet chosen is E. There are not many animals with names beginning with E and most people do think of an elephant first, but you might be unlucky if someone chooses an emu or an eel! Rather than using a cloud to represent the number and explaining the trick pictorially, you could write down expressions for the answer at each stage and use either a word (for example,...
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...alphabet and build up to words. Concerns about adult illiteracy led to the establishment of an ‘adult school’ by non-conformists in Nottingham in 1798. Methodists began an Adult School Movement in 1812. By 1818, there were more than 200 adult schools in England and Wales. Reports published by the school societies and MPs at Westminster increasingly proclaimed that...
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...alphabetical order. We're going to look at quartz. Once the specimen has been selected, a series of buttons and a description of the mineral appear below the two drop-down menus, as shown here for quartz. Several views and, in most cases, a video clip of a rotating image, are available for each specimen. Finally, a 'Mineral properties' page is given for each mineral. For...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs