Interpret information from advanced security information
This competency standard covers the skills and knowledge
required to operate and control advanced security systems and equipment. It requires
the ability to verify and interpret received data, formulate and implement responses
appropriate to situations, and maintain the operational effectiveness of security
systems. This work would be carried out under limited supervision within
organisational guidelines.
Draw and use simple maps, plans and drawings
This Unit of Competency focuses on how to read and interpret maps, plans and drawings and prepare a simple map or plan. It contains information, activities and suggested assessment tasks that enable learners to understand the basic features of a map, such as legends, identify different types of maps, including topographical maps, and use essential map-reading and field skills, such as using a compass.
SAALT South Asian Summit - Welcoming Remarks / Opening Plenary
SAALT South Asian Summit - Welcoming Remarks / Opening Plenary
Demonstrate appropriate interpersonal skills - Communicate with other people
An introduction to communication skills required by lab
technicians working in scientific and medical testing laboratories. Covers effective
interpersonal skills, including ethics and codes of conduct, non-discriminatory
behaviour and sexual harassment issues.
Levels of measurement
Aimed at statistics beginners, this learning object describes, and gives examples of, the four levels of measurement of data: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio.
21H.931 Seminar in Historical Methods (MIT)
This course is designed to introduce students to fundamental issues and debates in the writing of history. It will feature innovative historical accounts written in recent years. The class will consider such questions as the words historians use, their language, sources, methods, organization, framing, and style. How does the choice of each of these affect the historian's work? How does the author choose, analyze, and present evidence? How effective are different methodologies?
Mandarin stage 1 semester B
This module is aimed at beginners in Mandarin Chinese in semester B (after 11 weeks of study) and allows the student to practice listening and reading skills, as well as practice in grammar. The transcript reader of the listening exercises allows students to identify words/passages they find difficult to understand.
Mandarin stage 1 semester B
This module is aimed at beginners in Mandarin Chinese in semester B (after 11 weeks of study) and allows the student to practice listening and reading skills, as well as practice in grammar. The transcript reader of the listening exercises allows students to identify words/passages they find difficult to understand.
15.311 Organizational Processes (MIT)
Organizational Processes enhances students' ability to take effective action in complex organizational settings by providing the analytic tools needed to analyze, manage, and lead the organizations of the future. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the organizational context in influencing which individual styles and skills are effective. The subject centers on three complementary perspectives, or "lenses", on an organization: political, cultural, and strategic design. Students enrolled
6.661 Receivers, Antennas, and Signals (MIT)
This course explores the detection and measurement of radio and optical signals encountered in communications, astronomy, remote sensing, instrumentation, and radar. Topics covered include: statistical analysis of signal processing systems, including radiometers, spectrometers, interferometers, and digital correlation systems; matched filters and ambiguity functions; communications channel performance; measurement of random electromagnetic fields, angular filtering properties of antennas, interf
5.310 Laboratory Chemistry (MIT)
Laboratory Chemistry (5.310) introduces experimental chemistry for students requiring a chemistry laboratory who are not majoring in chemistry. Students must have completed general chemistry (5.111) and have completed or be concurrently enrolled in the first semester of organic chemistry (5.12). The course covers principles and applications of chemical laboratory techniques, including preparation and analysis of chemical materials, measurement of pH, gas and liquid chromatography, visible-u
21L.015 Introduction to Media Studies (MIT)
Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of culture. Through an interdisciplinary comparative and historical lens, the course defines "media" broadly as including oral, print, theatrical, photographic, broadcast, cinematic, and digital cultural forms and practices. The course looks at the nature of mediated communication, the functions of media
HST.502 Survival Skills for Researchers: The Responsible Conduct of Research (MIT)
This course is designed to provide graduate students and postdoctoral associates with techniques that enhance both validity and responsible conduct in scientific practice. Lectures present practical steps for developing skills in scientific research and are combined with discussion of cases. The course covers study design, preparation of proposals and manuscripts, peer review, authorship, use of humans and non-human animals in research, allegations of misconduct, and intellectual property.
Develop Trust and Confidence
This learning pack contains information, resources and activities to help you to: identify and assess interpersonal styles; deal with people openly and fairly; manage poor work performance; use coaching and mentoring skills to provide support to colleagues; keep records. Contains an overview, key terms, a show and tell audio presentation, a content guide (reading notes and references), websites and a self-check quiz. Contains an interactive Flash object with audio.
STS.428 Technology and Change in Rural America (MIT)
This course considers the historical dimensions of rural production from subsistence to industrialization, both in America and in an international context, with an emphasis on the role of science and technology. Topics include changing notions of progress; emergence of genetics and its complex applications to food production; mechanization of both farm practices and the food industry; role of migrant labor; management theory and its impact on farm practice; role of federal governments and NGOs i
Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest
This online exhibition highlights resources for the study of Robin Hood in the collections held by Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham. It includes examples from printed versions of the Robin Hood story in collections of traditional ballad literature, in popular chap books and in stories for children. It also features documents which can be used for the study of the historical Sherwood Forest and its laws.
Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest
This online exhibition highlights resources for the study of Robin Hood in the collections held by Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham. It includes examples from printed versions of the Robin Hood story in collections of traditional ballad literature, in popular chap books and in stories for children. It also features documents which can be used for the study of the historical Sherwood Forest and its laws.
Historical skills : dating documents
Explains the different dating conventions employed in historical documents. For example, the system of dating by reference to a religious feast day and the year of the reigning monarch has little in common with the modern calendar. Even where a recognisable date is provided, it may not be what it at first appears.... The resource includes a glossary, bibliography and translation of relevant Latin numbers/phrases. Illustrative images of items from our collections appear throughout.
TALAT Lecture 2205: Special Design Issues
This lecture describes the measurement and amount of residual stresses in extruded and welded profiles which have to be accounted for in design; it introduces the subject of corrosion and of preventive design measures; it describes the behavior and properties of structural aluminium alloys at ambient, low and elevated temperatures; it gives useful examples of structural applications of extrusions. Background in mechanical and structural engineering disciplines is assumed.
An Introduction to Veterinary Dentistry
The program provides students, veterinary surgeons and nurses, and dental technicians with an introduction to canine dentistry and reinforces basic canine dental skills. This comprehensive multimedia course gives clear and practical advice through the use of quizzes, flash animations and video clips as well as text and images.
