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Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...techniques for reading a text for orientation: skimming and scanning. Skimming: reading a text ‘diagonally’ at speed in order to decide whether to read (parts of) it properly in order to judge relevance. Scanning: searching for specific information; looking quickly through a text searching for something specific – usually a piece of information (= ‘scanning’)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...techniques for citizen participation. Grano (2016) cites the use of the latter in resolving a tree-felling dispute in Nanjing where citizen participation actually distracted public opposition to the tree-felling possibly because citizens held a diverse array of views as to why trees should be saved. Central government has also tried to punish polluting companies by...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...techniques Feedback approaches Managing time Opportunities Contribute to workforce development Professional development Could provide variety in role Enhance clinical experience Threats Time pressures - busy professional role and/or home life Lacking in confidence Dealing with challenging students Already juggling a great many things Take a few minutes to consider what...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...techniques and approaches that you have already learned can be combined to allow you to use tabular data efficiently. Example 3.1 Health personnel in Thailand The data shown in Table 3.1 are taken from the Thailand Mini Health Profile 1988, published by the Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok. They show the numbers of health care personnel at approximately five-year...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...techniques can be used to build up a rich understanding of innovation and economic change. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Innovation, markets and industrial change: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate the importance of technological change, costs of production and consumer preferences...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...technique for reducing NOx emissions using injected ammonia to reduce it to nitrogen. Variants of this method can be used in both coal-fired power stations and diesel engines. * sulfur dioxide (SO2) A gaseous by-product of the combustion of any fuel that contains sulfur. It contributes to acid rain and is a respiratory irritant. * three-way catalytic converter A device...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...technique is listening for common word combinations or chunks. For example, in German, 'wie gehts', 'im moment', or 'auf jeden Fall' are chunks. A word of caution though, chunks tend to be said quickly. Most people don't say 'hast du das gesehen', but would pronounce the question as a chunk: 'Hasdasgesehn?' Try familiarising yourself with words that appear often in a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...techniques (although these were very difficult to achieve in poor households) (Lewis, 1980, pp. 117–61; Loudon, 1992, pp. 234–53). Even in 1930, doctors had at best limited influence over pregnancy and childbirth. Their input would have varied between classes. A middle-class women, able to afford regular visits from a general practitioner, and to pay for childbirth in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs