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Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...analysis of variations on conventional endothermy. Whilst most hibernating endotherms lower the temperature of all or parts of their bodies by between 5 and 25° C, many ectotherms and some mammals are characterized by their ability to depress their T b to below the freezing point of water. In either situation, physiological adaptations must include: thermoregulatory...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...data on its population. In Activity 4, you will explore contemporary examples of the novel’s continuing significance by considering this in more detail. [A woman on her phone in a digital matrix environment] Figure 5 Surveillance is a key theme in Nineteen Eighty-Four Activity 4 In the box below, note down what information the UK government (or government of any other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...Data transferred straight from the research area to the book will simply remain data, it will be imaginatively inert.’ And I know that from my own in the sense that I never write worse than when I’ve got the textbook in the other hand, because try as I will to send it through my mind it has a strange way of going straight in through my eyes and out on to the page and...
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Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...data on the composition of the minerals. For example, I use electron microscopes to look in detail at the textures of ice samples. I look at where different types of salts accumulate and how the minerals are distributed within the ice, because that might have implications for how much fluid is transported up through the ice or how much drains back down into the oceans of...
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Writing your research proposal
Education & Development

Writing your research proposal

...data you aim to generate. Mostly, this falls into two broad categories, qualitative and quantitative (sometimes these can be mixed). Many academics question this distinction and suggest the methodology categories are better understood as unstructured or structured. For example, let’s imagine you are asking a group of people about their sugary snack preferences. You may...
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...data and insights to better manage and report on their carbon impact, which links with their broader sustainability strategy. From the employee perspective, if implemented carefully, this can come across less as invasive activity tracking and monitoring, but rather a joined-up approach to help reduce their, and their employer’s collective environmental impact. Further,...
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Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...data so there are also regulatory and legal issues to consider: where any data goes and how it is going to be used now or in the future are key concerns for people using social work services (Haider et al., 2026). Social work is also rooted in challenging inequality and prejudice. There is evidence, however, that current AI systems and tools can reinforce and perpetuate...
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An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...analysis and the percentage of different elements can be worked out. But normally it is a combination of methods. There are more indirect routes that don’t look at the elements in the rocks themselves but measure them in the water of streams and rivers. The ‘concentration’ (amount per unit volume or mass) of metals that are found dissolved in stream and river water...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs