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History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...La Chartreuse de Parme and Alphonse Daudet’s Numa Roumestan (for the transcription of this list, see ID: 20618). We can analyse the field of literature here through the filters of language, genre, and recentness (or date of publication). Certain clear patterns emerge in Lee’s reading over this 11 month period. First: the majority of her reading was in French (37 of 60...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...La Cour croit bon de mentionner la décision dans la fameuse cause anglaise de M’Allister (or Donoghue) v. Stevenson (1932), A.C. 562, où la Chambre des pairs a décidé que, selon le droit écossais ou anglais, dans le cas d’aliments vendus par le manufacturer à un distributeur dans des circonstances qui empêchent le ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...Based on over 5,000 survey questionnaires and a mapping of every business and building in the Ward, this account of a diverse community provides the statistical evidence to show how African Americans were systematically disadvantaged. The high levels of unemployment, imprisonment and drug addiction are linked and traced to the discrimination African American people face...
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Article 10 mins
The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...based on how easy it is to imagine, and perceiving oneself to be less biased than others. Such cognitive strategies operate in the form of bias, ultimately reducing or simplifying the amount of information that is available to a decision-maker and creating a perception of certainty around the decision. One particular bias that could produce unexpected problems during the...
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Article 5 mins
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...most people, and now costs the world an estimated $100 bn every year. The scientists warn that shifts in flood timing could have considerable economic and environmental consequences, and say their continental-wide observations “also enable the identification of a clear climate change signal that could not be obtained by earlier studies based on flood magnitude data.”...
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Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU
Languages

Flipping the flipped: The Flipping German project at the OU

...Based on socio-constructive learning theory, the ‘Flipped Classroom’ concept assumes that effective learning requires learners to construct their own understanding of subject matter. Learning, it claims, is most effective when it is constructed through social interaction with other students and teachers. More explicitly than in ‘traditional’ distance teaching, the...
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Creep feed grinding
Science, Maths & Technology

Creep feed grinding

...based alloys, which cannot be machined by milling and high speed hardened steels. Design: Process is capable of machining components of similar design to those using conventional grinding by surface, cylindrical or form-grinding modes. Form-holding characteristics are better than for conventional grinding. Surface finish is better than that obtained by conventional...
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Blow moulding
Science, Maths & Technology

Blow moulding

...base and neck of the container, whereas injection stretch blow moulding (ISBM) virtually eliminates scrap. ESBM and ISBM can be a one-stage process, in which extrusion/injection and blowing are carried out on a single machine, or a two-stage process, in which preforms are reheated before blow moulding. The single-stage ISBM process has a lower capital investment, a lower...
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