6.1 Firing-rate hypothesis
Hearing is a familiar and important human sense that is a topic naturally of interest to those who are curious about human biology. This unit will enable you to relate what you read to your own sensory experiences – and indeed many of the questions asked have exactly that function. This unit will be best understood by those with some biological understanding.
3.1 Introduction
Hearing is a familiar and important human sense that is a topic naturally of interest to those who are curious about human biology. This unit will enable you to relate what you read to your own sensory experiences – and indeed many of the questions asked have exactly that function. This unit will be best understood by those with some biological understanding.
3 Chromosome structure and DNA replication
Genomes are composed of DNA, and a knowledge of the structure of DNA is essential to understand how it can function as hereditary material. DNA is remarkable, breathtakingly simple in its structure yet capable of directing all the living processes in a cell, the production of new cells and the development of a fertilized egg to an individual adult. DNA has three key properties: it is relatively stable; its structure suggests an obvious way in which the molecule can be duplicated, or replicated;
1 1.2 How DNA is replicated
Genomes are composed of DNA, and a knowledge of the structure of DNA is essential to understand how it can function as hereditary material. DNA is remarkable, breathtakingly simple in its structure yet capable of directing all the living processes in a cell, the production of new cells and the development of a fertilized egg to an individual adult. DNA has three key properties: it is relatively stable; its structure suggests an obvious way in which the molecule can be duplicated, or replicated;
1.1.1 The chemical structure of DNA
Genomes are composed of DNA, and a knowledge of the structure of DNA is essential to understand how it can function as hereditary material. DNA is remarkable, breathtakingly simple in its structure yet capable of directing all the living processes in a cell, the production of new cells and the development of a fertilized egg to an individual adult. DNA has three key properties: it is relatively stable; its structure suggests an obvious way in which the molecule can be duplicated, or replicated;
Learning outcomes
Genomes are composed of DNA, and a knowledge of the structure of DNA is essential to understand how it can function as hereditary material. DNA is remarkable, breathtakingly simple in its structure yet capable of directing all the living processes in a cell, the production of new cells and the development of a fertilized egg to an individual adult. DNA has three key properties: it is relatively stable; its structure suggests an obvious way in which the molecule can be duplicated, or replicated;
Helping pupils classify and tackle mathematics problems
This is a DfES TRIPS digest of some research done in the USA and published in 2004. The research was aimed at helping 8-9 year olds improve their problem classification and problem solving skills by teaching them specifically how to recognise and classify certain types of problem before trying to use their problem solving skills on those problems.
UNESCO Guidelines and Recommendations for Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability
These guidelines and recommendations from UNESCO on ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) have been devised by an International Network of 30 teacher-education institutions from around the world. There are 67 recommendations, nearly half of which focus directly on course design and teacher education. The report argues that educators have a key role in helping to create a more sustainable future. It also acknowledges the urgent need and the enormous challenges involved in re-orientating
Playing Between Elephants (Trailer)
This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people’s housing process in Geunteng Timur. This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people’s housing process in Geunteng Timur. The full version can be found at: http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/playing-between-elephants/. There is an Indonesian saying that when the elephants are locked in a fight, the mousedeer would die in the middle. But in this documentary, the mousedeer does not die - instead
Gender and education: the evidence on pupils in England
Described as a ‘topic paper’, this 2007 document draws together a range of evidence on gender differences of pupils from the Reception Year to the Sixth Form, including current statistics, international performance data, as well as research reports.
Acknowledgements The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: The content acknowledged below is P
Working with Adults: A systematic literature review on how training and professional development act
This resource is the report from a study conducted by the Working with adults Review Group, for the EPPI-centre (part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, London). The study investigated the international research literature published between 1988 and 2006 from studies concerning the training and professional development of teaching assistants (TAs). The aim was to provide an overview of current training and professional development of TAs for policymakers, teachers
Teachers TV Disability Week
To coincide with the International Day for Disabled Persons on 3 December, Teachers TV has a week of programmes examining some of the issues facing people with disabilities, with a particular emphasis on mainstream and special education provision.
Terra Quasi-Incognita: Beyond the 2 Degree Line
First Keynote Address from the 4degrees International Climate Conference
Learning outcomes
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.
IASFM 12 Conference: Boundaries of Identity
This podcast was recorded at the second plenary event of the 12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference. This podcast was recorded at the second plenary event of the 12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) conference, which was held on Tuesday 30th June 2009 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Chaired by John Nassari, including Chris Dolan, Gaim Kibreab, Olga Dimitriou and Deidre Clancy.
Introduction
This unit is concerned with the technique of expressing a periodic function as a sum of terms, where each term is a constant, a sine function or a cosine function. There is a strong analogy with the technique of expressing a (non-periodic) function as a Taylor series, which is a sum of terms that are powers of the independent variable(s); in both cases, working with just the first few terms generally gives a useful approximation. This unit assumes the following background knowledge: the definit
4.2 Social and political justice
Can the concept of human rights be applied across borders or are rights culturally specific? Is it realistic, or even desirable, to aim at an international system based on universal principles of justice? This unit takes a critical view of the assumption that ‘rights are a good thing’ and looks at the problems that arise when they are applied in the international arena.
4.1 Distributive and commutative justice
Can the concept of human rights be applied across borders or are rights culturally specific? Is it realistic, or even desirable, to aim at an international system based on universal principles of justice? This unit takes a critical view of the assumption that ‘rights are a good thing’ and looks at the problems that arise when they are applied in the international arena.
2007.04.18-Why are Bacteria Winning the Antibiotics War?
Since antibiotics were discovered in the 1950s, they have been over-used. Bacterial cells are smarter than scientists and find ways to build up resistance to current antibiotics. While many antibiotics still function today, the rate at which they are...
