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Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...physical damage to the body caused by accidents or violence...Session 1: Introducing human infectious diseases: 1.2 Symptoms and signs of infection - Symptoms are sensations in the body that only the person who is unwell can experience; for example, a headache, pain in the abdomen, blurred vision and nausea are all symptoms, because no one but the sufferer can experience...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...physical activity. Singing and dancing were on the curriculum as well as music. David McLaren Whichever Owenite community you look at whether its here or in the states, dancing features prominently. Now there’s a whole number of reasons for that, often Owen talks about the moral benefits of dancing but clearly there are other benefits as well, there are physical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...physical environment within that ecosystem. In desert ecosystems, insectivorous, herbivorous and seed-eating niches are occupied by small animals, including arthropods, lizards, small birds, rodents, squirrels and shrews. Medium and large-sized animals such as hares, gazelle, camels and ostrich occupy grazing and browsing niches. Predators include foxes, e.g. kit fox...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...physical phenomena to be represented as vector fields. A vector field is a mathematical representation of a system that describes how a quantity, such as a force, changes over an interval of time, or an area or volume of space. Figure 1, for example, illustrates vector fields created by magnets (in part (a)) and fluid flow (in part (b)). A vector field can be thought of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...physical remains, theatre, films, books, words or ideas. This course has two main parts: How to explore the Classical world will discuss what it means to ‘explore the Classical world’. Much of this section will be taken up by the crucial issue of sources: what sources about the Classical world do we have at our disposal and how best can we use them? Beginning to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...physical or sensory impairment or a learning disability. This is what is meant by common knowledge. Common knowledge in Health and Social Care is something that is so well known that it’s obvious to you and your readers. Once you begin to dig more deeply into issues, however, you quickly get beyond common knowledge. Take the example of disability. Disability is not a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...physical contact in the makeshift hut, and the indication in the stage directions that they are ‘squashed together’ is emphasized in a speech: ‘You're sitting on my leg’. Later in the scene Kit says: ‘You're sitting on me’. So, despite the sparse stage directions a director would know how the girls should be placed onstage. Even within the confined space of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...physical courage, he wasn't evidently the most clever of Napoleon's Marshals, but his physical courage was a by-word, and of course Browning's poem, you know, "We French Stormed Ratisbon" mentions him, at the storming of Ratisbon. Now MacLennan at the battle of Auldearn between the Royalists under Montrose, and the covenanters, the Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth was on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs