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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...system. It was argued that states and others thus not only portrayed them as the main cause of crime, but deployed resources to their criminalisation. Thus these state and media processes were seen to criminalise certain groups and not others, while attention was argued to be deflected from the inequalities that shape the underlying social problems. Furthermore, through...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...system. When the piston reaches the bottom of the stroke the inlet valve closes. On the next stroke this air/fuel mixture is then compressed into typically one-tenth of its original volume, creating a highly inflammable mixture which is then ignited using an electric spark on a sparking plug. The gases then burn very rapidly reaching a high temperature (750 °C or more)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...Systems and the sale of radar systems to the Tanzanian Government [In 2010 BAE Systems, a military equipment producer, was taken to court regarding] a relatively small accounting offence admitted by BAE in relation to one contract in one country – a £28m radar deal in Tanzania in 2002. A judge has declared he was “astonished” at claims that BAE Systems, Britain’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...systems so that default PIN codes no longer exist, but many users still use meaningful information such as their birthdates as PIN codes, making them easy to guess (BBC News, 2011). This highlights the importance of considering both technological and human aspects when developing security measures. As explained above, gaining access to other people’s accounts can...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...system, via the web, or in public places. How often would you listen to music if you could hear it only by attending performances or making it yourself? No two answers to this question will be the same, because each person’s experience would depend on where they lived, the kind of repertoire they might seek out and the resources at their disposal to travel, or to gain...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...system, and so on. But speech changes all the time and, eventually, written language will start to accommodate some of the changes that are taking place in the spoken language. You just have to listen to people talking English now to know that spoken language changes much more readily than written language. Think of grandparents and the problems they sometimes have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...system to play a performance of Edward’s filmed on a mobile phone. “My son played the music at his own funeral,” Mallen says as he remembers that day over a mug of tea in a café in central London. “You couldn’t dream this stuff.” I first talk to Mallen, who is 52, in November 2016, 21 months to the day since Edward’s death. His hair is white; his blazer,...
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Article 15 mins
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...systems thinking, design thinking, theory of constraints and so on as figurative tools in the toolbox, suited to your context. Every organisation is unique and is a complex adaptive system; there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Table 1 summarises the types of organisational problem these patterns can assist with. (Italic text in the third column refers to topics...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs