4.7 Summary Water in its 'natural' state supports a complex, yet fragile, ecosystem. The ability of natural watercourses to sustain aquatic life depends on a variety of physical, chemical and biological conditions. Biodegradable compounds, nutrients and dissolved oxygen must be available for the metabolic activities of the algae, fungi, bacteria and protozoa which are at the lowest level of the food chain. In addition, plant and animal growth cannot occur outside narrow ranges of temperature and pH. Susp
Social work learning practice
This free audio course, Social work learning practice, focuses on the importance of people's backgrounds and experiences in the field of social work. It identifies the diverse ways in which service users and social workers define themselves, helping you to understand how the two groups perceive each other and relate successfully to each other.
An understanding of how people make sense of their experiences will help you to define yourself, and your own place within the process.Author(s):
1.3.5 Using colour to represent information All UIs need to communicate information. Colour can be particularly effective for this. Table 4 summarises some of the techniques that are available. 3.4.3 Respecting autonomy is the foremost ethical principle in health care Some commentators believe the pendulum has swung so far in favour of respecting autonomy that it leaves little scope for users to be passive recipients of healing. The desire to make each user an active participant in their own healing process can make it hard, or even impossible, for a user to refuse to engage in active decision making, and leave the decision to the benevolent practitioner. In this case, the user may waive his or her rights, by choosing not to be kept informed about changes Acknowledgements The content acknowledged below is Proprietary (see terms and conditions) and is used under licence. Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: Author(s): Penn Alexander, Bringing Coding into the Classroom Provost Corner with Interim Provost John A. Barrett - April 2015 3 Anne's experiences Anne has arthritis and depression. She is a retired social worker who retired early on health grounds. Her asses Correlative Conjunctions Acknowledgements This course was written by "Dr Mary-Catherine Garden (Battlefields) and Dr Rodney Harrison (Old and New Towns of Edinburgh)" Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission: Course image: Moyan Brenn in Flickr made available under Creative Commons At Dr. Seuss Documentary, Part 8 of 9 Managing Creativity and Creative Management Keep on learning There are more than 800 courses on OpenLearn for you to choose from on a range of subjects. Find out more Smelling and Tasting Chef Angus Campbell | 100th Dishes: 1964 1.2.4 Surgical methods of contraception Surgical methods are by and large the most drastic and irreversible ones, ranging from castration to relatively untraumatic tube-tying. Because of the psychological and physiological side-effects, surgical removal of the testes or ovaries is not generally carried out for contraceptive reasons alone, although these operations may be carried out for other reasons, such as the presence of malignant tumours. Any kind of surgical sterilization can be physiologically traumatic for a woman, as it in SMU Honors Convocation 2015 Tower Poetry 2010 Love has no Larynx De wetenschap achter constructies Deze themapagina van het NEMO Science Center richt zich op het bouwen van een constructie. Uitdagingen zijn onder meer: Weather & Meteorology : What Causes Hail?
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A group of students at Penn Alexander are hacking parents’ classic warning that video games turn brains to mush.
In a course developed by Yasmin Kafai, a professor of teaching, learning, and leadership at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), a group of 12 sixth to eighth graders are working not only to understand how video games work, but to actually create the games themselves.
“The goal of the [coding] program is not to turn everyone into a programmer. It’s the same as teaching stud
In the April edition of the Provost Corner - John Barrett welcomes Dr. Sharon Gaber as the 17th president, and the Shining Star Awards are announced.
A short musical slide show lesson on correlative conjunction. Correlative conjunction words and an example sentence with an image are shown.
This is a History Channel documentary about Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
As the Creative Industries become a more important part of the global economy does the stereotype of the creative genius still persist? Do we need to rethink our ideas on creativity and understand how it works more clearly?
Dr Chris Bilton, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, argues that organisations need to start thinking about creativity as a process and begin adapting traditional business strategies to develop a creative approach to management.
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If you can't smell, you probably can't taste very well either. They are closely-related functions. Receptor cells for taste and smell are located in the mouth and nose, respectively. As the receptor cells are stimulated, they send impulses from these organs to the brain's smelling and tasting centers, the cortices. For taste, impulses stimulated by the chemical compounds in food are sent to the gustatory cortex. For smells impulses stimulated by the chemical compounds in odors are sent to the ol
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SMU Honors Convocation 2015
Emily Harrison reads her entry for the 2010 Tower Poetry Competition 'Love has No Larynx'.
Hail is formed in large thunderstorms when the clouds are high enough in the sky for the water within them to freeze. Find out how hail is able to grow to the size of a golf ball or softball with help from a meteorologist. Video is short and good quality and is appropriate for elementary level students of grades three through five.
