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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...et al., 2002). In 1981, Carol Martin and Charles Halverson presented a new account of gender typing that drew on the ideas of earlier cognitive developmental accounts but included considerably more detail about the exact cognitive processes involved in gender development (Martin and Halverson, 1981). They proposed that the emergence of stereotypes in childhood was not...
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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...et al. 2014). These symptoms are temporary, but require a period of recovery to repair. If an individual moves into their next training session without being fully recovered from the previous one, their ability to perform at their best will be inhibited. Therefore, any strategy aimed at increasing the speed of recovery is potentially advantageous. As well as being...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...et al., 2012) As illustrated by both social workers in the videos, making the link between personal experience and what social workers bring to their practice is an important early step towards their becoming a reflective practitioner. Good social work practice is primarily about relationships (Wilson et al., 2011) and engaging effectively with service users, carers and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...Double inverted commas are used to show a sequence of characters such as “ORGANIC”. If we write out in full the string “ORGANIC COURGETTES 0.41kg @ £3.49/kg”, it is necessary to deal with the spaces between words. This use of double inverted commas only applies to sequences of characters. All other sequences are written using the square bracket notation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...Doubling - The cast list for the first performance of Top Girls at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1982 indicates that six of the actors played two or more roles each; only one actor had a single role, that of Marlene. This doubling is also used in a BBC recording of the play, but it is not prescribed by the playwright, Caryl Churchill, who in fact has reservations...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...doubling of frequency. (It is so called because the frequency span in a doubling of frequency is divided into the eight notes of a musical scale.) Higher-order filters have a steeper roll-off. For second-order filters it is 40 dB/decade (or 12 dB/octave) and for third-order filters it is 60 dB/decade (or 18 dB/octave). Each successive order adds a further 20 dB/decade (or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...double the amount of solar energy investment globally in a cumulative way, the costs have tended to come down and the massive amount of investment that the Germans encouraged, stimulated that learning by doing, got the Chinese into the market which brought costs down further. So there’s a kind of interplay between the public and private sectors that’s helped there....
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Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...doubling the number of people working is the same as doubling the speed at which the team work. In either case the time is halved. It is useful to find out how long it would take one person to do the whole job, then divide by the number of people sharing the work. This is a good approach to most indirect proportion problems. Example 9 A team of five people can deliver...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs