5.4.1 Leadership roles The classic 'scientific' view of the leader is as the central 'controller' – planning, monitoring and regulating. The more 'democratic' view sees the role as facilitator, or coordinator. The more 'educational' view sees it as that of adviser, teacher, source of expertise, etc. Adair identified three overlapping areas: achieving the task, building and maintaining the team, and developing individuals.
1.3 Environmental factors I indicated earlier that many failures occur after a product has been in service for some time: such as the wear of a car tyre, or corrosion of the car body itself. It is also possible for components to fail because of a combination of a manufacturing defect with the applied loading or with the environmental conditions during use. Author(s):
Pope arrives in province devastated by typhoon
Pope Francis arrives in rainy Tacloban where he will comfort the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
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Keep on learning There are more than 800 courses on OpenLearn for you to choose from on 2.4 Computer systems (contd) As I have already mentioned, the functional blocks shown in Figure 3 relate very closely to, even though they are not necessarily identical with, the computer's physical components. The computer's physical components are normally known collectively as the hardware. Software is a term often used t Ocean Tides The Fallacy of Scientism as a Worldview VU Inside: Students dig into super-massive volcanic eruptions 3-Axis CNC Milling in Architectural Design 3.8.2 Analysing and answering essay-based exam questions For the following activity, you can use questions from a specimen paper, past papers or even questions you have devised for yourself. Exam questions for essay-based courses often contain 'process words'. T 4.3 Further exercises Let Deaf Planet 4 Great Rubrics to Help You Select Educational Apps 2.4 Going down: using scientific notation for small numbers You saw in Section 2.2 how the powers of ten notation provides a concise method of expressing very large numbers and reduces the chances of errors when, otherwise, many zeros would have to be written out. You will now see how the powers of ten notation can be extended to cover small numbers, such as 0.000 000 0002 m. Write down th 11.328J Urban Design Skills: Observing, Interpreting, and Representing the City (MIT) Video shows the moment Nepal earthquake hits village near Langtang 4.7 Summary Human activity has been responsible for some extinctions and othe deleterious changes to habitats. These changes have not always been the result of thoughtless or selfish behaviour; often intentions were worthy, but outcomes were not as predicted. The importance of genetic diversith is demonstrated here in relation to Dutch Elm disease. The need to retain genetic diversity in plants, used for food and medicine, is recognized in such initiatives as the Kew Milennium Seed Bank Appeal. 1.5.9 Plagiarism Referencing is not only useful as a way of sharing information, but also as a means of ensuring that due credit is given to other people's work. In the electronic information age, it is easy to copy and paste from journal articles and web pages into your own work. But if you do use someone else's work, you should acknowledge the source by giving a correct reference. Taking someone's work and not indicating where you took it from is termed plagiarism and is regarded as an infringement of 8 Magistrates Magistrates have been a part of the English legal system since the Justice of the Peace Act 1361. Their main role has always been in the criminal justice system. There are now over 30,000 magistrates (also known as Justices of the Peace) hearing over one million criminal cases per year. This
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Tides are the rise and fall of the ocean's surface. Learn more about ocean tides in this educational video. The video briefly explains the causes of the tides, types of tides, and how often a tide occurs. More videos about tides can be found under the category and subcategories of Astronomy/Solar System/Earth's Moon/ Moon and Earth's Tides. (00:55)
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A dozen Vanderbilt students went on a monthlong science adventure of a lifetime, studying super-eruptions, glaciers and earthquakes in New Zealand.
Physical scale models still have a role in architectural design. 3-axis CNC milling provides one way of making scale models both for study purposes and for presentation in durable materials such as wood. We present some types of scale models, the methods for creating them and the place in the design process that scale models occupy. We provide an overview of CNC milling procedures and issues and we describe the process of how one can creatively develop appropriate methods for milling different t
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Deaf Planet's web media site is in both American Sign Language (ASL) and French Sign Language (LSQ). Their site content uses Bloom's taxonomy in its video clips, games, and activities, and their show Earth Buzz has a new episode each week in both ASL and LSQ. They also have a finger spelling feature that can be either turned on or off while playing games and activities. Individuals can either have fun working independently or along side with parents and educators.
This is a collection of rubrics for educators to use when selecting mobile Apps for classroom use.
The course is designed to be an introduction to methods of analyzing, evaluating, and recording the urban environment first hand. Its aim is to supplement existing courses that cover theory and history of city design and planning and to better prepare students without prior design background for the studio sequence.
Amateur video footage shows the moment an earthquake hit Kyanjin Gompa near Nepal's Langtang village which was entirely destroyed by a subsequent landslide. Julie Noce reprorts.
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