5.5 Academic writing
What is your experience of work and what did you learn from this experience? This unit will enable you to reflect upon what you have learned from work and support you in improving how you learn at work. It will encourage you to think critically about work-based learning and review your own professional knowledge and skills.
3.7.1 Learning is social
What is your experience of work and what did you learn from this experience? This unit will enable you to reflect upon what you have learned from work and support you in improving how you learn at work. It will encourage you to think critically about work-based learning and review your own professional knowledge and skills.
Female desert bighorn sheep in the Sonora desert
Desert bighorn sheep use a lot of energy to regulate their internal temperature in the desert. During the summer the sheep eat plants and drink water every few days. In the winter, desert plants contain enough water for sheep survival.
Plants That Aren't Plants: Mosses and Lichens
Mosses and lichens are not given much attention in introductory biology laboratory courses, in part because instructors lack skills necessary to cover the topic-namely, moss leaf cross sectioning and lichen chemical spot tests. Acquiring confidence in just these two techniques, as well as familiarity with basic terminology, lays a foundation for further investigation.
Lisa Vorderbrueggen; Political Editor: Contra Costa Times - Undergraduate Colloquium on Political Sc
This course features a guest speaker each week discussing an issue currently in the news. Some of the topics include political issues facing the state of California, the United States, or the international community.
Reference Resources: Being a Good Detective
Students become familiar with a variety of reference resources when seeking information. These sources include atlases, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, online search engines for the Internet, and online library card catalogs.
2.6.1 Compendium
The power of graphics should not the underestimated. They can express information clearly and simply. This unit will help you to assess which style of graphic to use in different situations.
Obama answers Boehner's question at Twitter town hall
July 6 - "After embarking on a record spending binge that left us deeper in debt, where are the jobs?" House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner asks in a tweet. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The Earth and Moon's Orbit
The following activities will help you explore how the earth and moon move around the sun.
Lichen with spore producing structures from the fungi
Lichens are made of fungi and algae. Fungi cannot make their own food and depend on the algae for food (photosynthesis). The fungi provide a water source for the algae. The fungi also provide the reproductive structure for the lichen.
Using Lenses
Connexions
This module describes what a Lens on Connexions is, how authors may use them to highlight certain content, and how instructors or learners may use them to find quality content.
Author(s):
European Heart Journal - My Cardio Interview: Patrick Serruys & Ulf Landmesser on drug scaffolds
Patrick Serruys in conversation with Ulf Landmesser:
Biodegradable drug eluting scaffold - the 4th revolution
HyperBrain: Pathway Quiz 11 - Vestibulospinal Tract
One of eighteen quizzes on neuroanatomy accompanying the HyperBrain tutorial.
The Naked City
Renowned sociologist Sharon Zukin will discuss her latest book, The Naked City: the death and life of authentic urban places, which explores the gentrification of cities. Sharon Zukin is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and City University Graduate Center.
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1.2 Law and context The law relating to businesses, which includes company law, is a highly practical subject because of the areas which it covers. You may in fact already have experience of this if you are in business; in addition or alternatively, you may be a shareholder in a company, or have lent money to one. All students and practitioners of these areas of law therefore need to have a good understanding of how they actually work in practice, as well as the commercial, political, economic and social c
4.3 The Euler characteristic
Surfaces are a special class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in the world of mathematics. In this unit, you will learn to classify surfaces and will be introduced to such concepts as homeomorphism, orientability, the Euler characteristic and the Classification Theorum.
4.2.1 Eco-efficiency = money in the bank
Human societies have to take urgent action to end their dependences on fossil fuels. We have to alter the whole path of our development and decision making in order to make our societies both environmentally adaptable and sustainable. This unit takes on the task of trying to chart some of the ways in which it might be possible.
3.3.1 Too late for the nation state?
Human societies have to take urgent action to end their dependences on fossil fuels. We have to alter the whole path of our development and decision making in order to make our societies both environmentally adaptable and sustainable. This unit takes on the task of trying to chart some of the ways in which it might be possible.
