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What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...Economics and Statistics, 97(1). Dave, H.P., Mesarosova, K., Siegling, A.B., Tremblay, P.F. and Saklofske, D.H. (2019) ‘Assessing locus of control in pilots: Psychometric evaluation of a self-report measure’, Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors, 9(1), pp. 24–30. Jones, J.W. and Wuebker, L.J. (1993) ‘Safety locus of control and employees' accidents’,...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...economic exploitation, and cruelty, but emotional, psychological, and sex abuse as well. So child protection enters the 21st century with a substantial depth of good – but often painful - experience of welfare and law. It must attract people of integrity, with a love of children and justice, people with wisdom, patience and vision, able and willing to work within the...
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Introduction to differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differential equations

...economics and finance. Three types of first-order differential equations are considered. Section 1 introduces you to equations that can be solved by direct integration. Section 2 introduces the method of separation of variables for solving differential equations. Section 3 looks at applications of differential equations for solving real world problems including variations...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...economic and social context we are currently experiencing and how this means each of us must take more responsibility for our own finances. She also talks with George and Martin about her own money story and her own money challenges. These include efforts to overcome innate risk averseness around investment. Jonquil also signals a warning about financial scams and invites...
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Second-order differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Second-order differential equations

...economics. The course is designed to teach ‘pencil and paper’ techniques that are at the core of applying mathematics. Students are expected to be familiar with standard mathematical notation and with elementary functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms and exponentials. Familiarity with algebra, calculus and complex numbers is also assumed. Second-order...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...economic, cultural and educational prestige. It continues to change at all linguistic levels, in both standard and non-standard varieties, in response to external influences (e.g. modern communications technologies; contact with other world languages) and pressures internal to the language system (e.g. the continuing impulse towards an efficient, symmetrical sound-system;...
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Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...economic migrant’ is neither simple nor straightforward. [Figure 1] (From One Day We Had To Run – written by Sybella Wilkes and published by Evans Brothers Limited. Copyright © Sybella Wilkes 1994. All rights reserved. This image may not be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission of Evans Brothers Limited.) Figure 1...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...economic importance of petrochemicals can be seen from the fact that recently the world production of transport fuels from crude oil was estimated to have a value of US $385 billion, whilst world production of petrochemicals was estimated to have a value of US $375 billion. Over 80% of crude oil is used to make transport fuel, while 3-5% is used for petrochemicals, yet...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs