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  1. Precision: The Measure of All Things (2013)

    Director
    Mike Cunliffe
    Producer
    Mark Woodward
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £41.99

    Series in which Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement....

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  2. Measuring the Universe: From the Transit of Venus to the Edge of the Cosmos (2012)

    Subject
    Astronomy

    This short film explains how the transit of Venus was used in previous centuries to make an accurate measure of the distance to the planets, giving astronomers their first inkling of the true scale of space.

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  3. Photogrammetric Measuring Methods (2010)

    Subject
    Engineering; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 5 minutes), 11.90 euros

    A programme from the series produced by the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute;. Optical measuring methods applied the physical models of the BAW yield high quality and high quantity data....

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  4. Measurement and Uncertainty (2008)

    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    This is the first in a two part series that helps to answer some very important mathematical and scientific questions that relate to measurement. Why is measurement important and how is uncertainty...

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  5. What Time is It? (2008)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Professor Brian Cox explores what we really know about time. From our historical dictator of time - the Sun - to the world’s irregular flutters and the physical definition of a second by an atomic clock,...

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  6. A Passion for Precision: Colloquium Given by Theodor Hänsch (2006)

    Subject
    Physics

    Colloquium given by Theodor Hänsch, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy. At the time of the interview Hänsch was also...

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  7. Observations and Data (2006)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 20 minutes), £69.00

    One of the most important processes in science is the art of observing. This video resource highlights different ways observations are made, emphasising methods by which students can observe their world....

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  8. Solving Performance Problems: The Diagnostic Interview (2002)

    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 18 min), £895.00 (sale) £140.00 (hire)

    A video-based training package designed to give managers the skills to confront the problem of poor employee performance. Key points in the dramatised video include: 1) having a clear interview structure...

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  9. Solving Performance Problems: The Performance Improvement Plan (2002)

    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 32 min), £985.00

    A video-based training package designed to give managers the skills, tools and confidence to solve performance problems constructively and swiftly. Using The Performance Improvement Plan, managers will be...

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  10. Time and Transmitters (2002)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £130.50 + VAT

    A series of six programmes in which five scientists are marooned, with very basic equipment, on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, just north of Granada, where they are challenged to use their scientific...

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