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Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...energy and your thinking mind, what role that plays in relating to one another. Because, ultimately, the SCCR is about helping us have better relationships and stay together in our families. This project took me back to the very beginnings of medical school where you understand how the nervous system develops, and you learn that the outer layer of cells forms the central...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...energy supply in the form of sunlight penetrating the water. Following eutrophication, the sunlight is intercepted by the increased biomass of phytoplankton exploiting the high availability of nutrients. In principle, the submerged macrophytes could also benefit from increased nutrient availability, but they have no opportunity to do so because they are shaded by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...energy. Sam is ‘always on the go’ and is impulsive so she’s easily side-tracked from what she is supposed to be doing. This makes her difficult to control from a parental perspective. What risky behaviours does Sam engage in? Discussion She has no concept of danger so climbs trees higher than she should do and runs out onto the road. She is also running away. What...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...energy from light at the pump wavelength to the signal wavelength. In this way the (modulated) signal at around 1550 nm emerges from the erbium-doped fibre at a higher power, having taken the power from the pump. The wavelength of the light used for the pump can be either 980 nm or 1480 nm. Sometimes both pump wavelengths are used simultaneously to get maximum gain. While...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...energy in acquiring human capital. They thus face lower earnings as a result of having less training and lower skills. Because women themselves choose not to invest in skills and training, their lower earnings would not represent discrimination according to the definition used in this course. Of course, it could be argued that some women decide to focus on their family...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...energies, and the failure of most emerging nationalities in this period to gain control over the territory they inhabited and to construct their own state. The old European empires, although weakening and subject to growing internal strain (particularly in the case of Ottoman Turkey, but also affecting Austria and Russia), held together until the outbreak of the First...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...energy transferred to vehicle lightweight: no inner frame needed for the tire/wheel assembly. (NASA, n.d.) NASA’s capacity to be creative in the face of non-negotiable constraints led to the development of a radically different type of tyre. It is not hard to imagine that in the absence of the constraints imposed upon NASA by the rigorous conditions encountered in space...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...energy’, subject to safeguard agreements. Reinforces and extends the NPT requirement for safeguards to ensure that nuclear materials and technology are not used for weapons. Requires all parties to ‘pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race and to nuclear disarmament’ (without specifying what those...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs