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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...determine who broadcast signals as well as who received them. By 1938, ‘of the thirty European national broadcasting systems in existence, thirteen were state owned and run, nine were government monopolies, four were directly operated by governments, and only three were privately-owned’ (Aldgate, 2001, p. 167)...Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period: Content...
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...determined by the period of oscillation of the source: a quickly vibrating source produces a shorter wavelength than a more slowly vibrating source. The wavelength is also the distance the pressure wave travels in the time it takes the source to complete one cycle. If we monitor the pressure at a fixed point in the vicinity of a sinusoidally oscillating source and plot...
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...determines the identity of each element. Thus, if an atom has six protons it must be an atom of the element carbon. If it has seven protons it must be nitrogen, and so on. As the number of protons increases so the mass of the atom increases. The number of protons in an atom also determines the number of electrons in that atom and it is the protons and electrons that give...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...determines public opinion. For another, most of them had themselves suffered censorship or repercussions for having published unpopular ideas. In actual fact, Hume did on at least one occasion seek to suppress material he found objectionable: in 1764 he tried and failed to prevent the publication of a mocking review of a friend's book by Voltaire (Mossner, 1980, p. 412)....
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...determines whether it represents units, tens, hundreds, thousands etc. For example, the number 1375 means one thousand three hundred and seventy-five. The position of the 3, third from the right, means that it represents 3 hundreds. A thousand thousand, 1 000 000, is called a million and a thousand million, 1 000 000 000, is called a billion. (A British billion used to be...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...determine what appears in texts. What is important for children’s literature is that the inevitable variety of childhood and childhoods is acknowledged in its real readers, and its variability as a social and commercial construction is acknowledged in the texts. References Lewis, C. S. (1966) ‘On Three Ways of Writing for Children’, in Of Other Worlds. London,...
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...determine how the consumption takes place produce a benefit for beneficiaries. In Activity 3, you will be introduced to the business model of a non-profit organisation, Shelter. This charity operates in the UK helping homeless people to find support. In the following video, Shelter CEO, Polly Neate, explains how Shelter works. Activity 3 Beneficiaries of Shelter Timing:...
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...determine if a registrant – who registers with a regulatory body – no longer poses a risk to the public. Our findings show that people who use services raise concerns about practitioners to guarantee that the lesson is learned and that practitioners do not repeat the mistakes that endanger the public. Along with this, Fitness to Practise procedures that are supportive...