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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...accounts for less than one millionth of the total mass of the planet. The atmospheric pressure and density of air decrease exponentially with height above the surface. The term ‘exponentially’ means that for every increase in height by the same distance, the atmospheric density falls by the same factor. In the case of the Earth, density halves for every increase of...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...account: the long-term result, you’ll be left with zero.” Vanlauwe has worked intensively on what are called “nonresponsive soils,” soils that do not gain in fertility by adding nitrogen- and phosphorus-based fertilisers or other “improvements”. He says reversing nonresponsiveness is difficult – it’s a particularly resilient state, even if it is not a...
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The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...accounts of Saint Patrick's life "The Irish have many lives of their great apostle, whereof the two principal are, that compiled by Jocelin, a Cistercian monk, in the twelfth century, who quotes four lives written by disciples of the saint; and that by Probus, who, according to Bollandus, lived in the seventh century. But in both are intermixed several injudicious popular...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...account for the way it appears as a solid ‘social fact’ in our work, but then disappears as a ‘social fiction’ from our personal lives. As is often the case, Stuart Hall put his finger on it when he reflected on how Marxism morphed into cultural studies in the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1980s: We had to develop a methodology that taught us to...
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Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...account for the context of your business/circumstances, may be inaccurate and incomplete or it may suggest clauses and provisions that are not commercially appropriate to your business' size, sector, structure and/or jurisdiction. Conversely, you could use an LLM to help you draft an initial letter or email of complaint to another party that sets out the basic facts of a...
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English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...account of the content of something you have read, heard or viewed without details Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 5 items in each list. Report Short definition and explanation Essay Short-answer exercise Summary Match each of the previous list items with an item from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...account of external factors such as the time you have or the circumstances in which you study? Are you basing your judgement on your own evaluation of your intellectual capacities? Do energy, enthusiasm and commitment come into the evaluation? What would it take to improve your prospects of success, measured by whatever criterion is important to you? Can you act to...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...account depending on how you interpret ‘distinctive’. … Many quarters of the media came to the conclusion that Trott was suffering from depression … In an hour-long interview … Trott revealed that he had in fact not been experiencing depression, but ‘burnout’. He had become ‘physically and emotionally spent’, with perceived technical weaknesses in his...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs