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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...law maxim de minimis non curat lex: ‘the law does not concern itself with trifles’. A one-in-a-million level of increased risk over a lifetime is often used as a reasonable criterion for separating high-risk problems (which warrant attention) from negligible-risk problems (which do not). Of course, you can try to quantify such risks, but still your perception of...
Oedraniaeth a gwahaniaethu ar sail oedran
Society, Politics & Law

Oedraniaeth a gwahaniaethu ar sail oedran

...law: discrimination explained', Comisiwn Cydraddoldeb a Hawliau Dynol (Gweler y trawsgrifiad [PDF 30 KB]) Rhaid i gyrff cyhoeddus roi ‘sylw dyledus’ i’r angen i gyflawni tri phrif nod, fel y gwelir yn Ffigur 9. [Graffigyn gyda’r teitl ‘Dyletswydd Cydraddoldeb y Sector Cyhoeddus’. Mae’r testun o dan y teitl yn dweud ‘Pwrpas tri nod y ddyletswydd gyffredinol...
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...law, and utters a speech to the effect that, owing to old age, he wishes to retire from the cares of business and divide his kingdom between his daughters. In order to know how much he should give to each daughter, he announces that to the one who says she loves him most he will give most. The eldest daughter, Goneril, says that words can not express the extent of her...
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...law wouldn't punish her, would they? So I did. [SIGHS] Well, there you are. I’ve done your work for you. Sorry, Carol. How successful are the screen writers in adapting a supposedly un-adaptable novel for the small screen, based on this scene and their handling of the killer’s revelation? What decisions might they have made differently, in terms of structure, form and...
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...law, should be clearly displayed: the price you pay standing at the counter (al banco) and the price you pay sitting down at a table (al tavolo). In smaller towns or rural areas, there is usually only one set of prices and you can sit either inside or outside without paying extra...Week 1: Drinks and snacks at an Italian bar: 11 This week’s quiz - Check what you’ve...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...laws of the numbers themselves’. (O. Neugebauer and A. Sachs, Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (American Oriental Society, 1945) pp. 37, 41.) So, on this interpretation, it has little to do with geometry as such, except incidentally, but more to do with properties of numbers. For what struck them especially, when trying to work out how the table had been constructed, was...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...laws, any order he give to us, we have to obey. Because he is the boss. When he say, ….. again, nobody will help us. How do makers of Adinkra train?...Textiles in Ghana: 3.5 What can we learn? - The next activity poses a question that should encourage you to bring together the various observations you made above. Activity 11 What can we learn from who is trained and the...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...laws (for example, by spraying illicit graffiti onto public road surfaces) and the potential damage graffiti can cause to public or private property cannot be answered here and is highly dependent on specific circumstances and contexts, and on the techniques used. It also raises a range of other questions: What qualifies as a ‘good’ cause? When does graffiti work...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs