Case studies of Brunetti’s café in Melbourne, Australia and a milk company show us the difference between batch processing and continuous processing.
Grade levels: Adult
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Delirium
For both suffers and those around them, this mental disorder is extremely frightening. This program discusses the symptoms and treatments, detailing one man’s experience with delirium.
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Battle Scars: An Overview of our Defense Against Disease
This program explores the human immune system and the body’s defenses against disease.
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Panic Disorder
What do you do when your body’s built-in mechanism for survival goes into overdrive? Find out in this program that explains recent scientific findings about panic disorder, and shows how one patient deals with the panic attacks he’s experienced for over 20 years.
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Beating Bacteria: A User’s Guide
This humorous cross-curricula program shows students how harmful bacteria can hide – and grow – in even the most clean-looking of environments.
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Postpartum Depression
Not all new mothers experience the joys of motherhood ? postpartum depression can affect mother, baby and the entire family. This program presents signs of the disorder, explains treatment, and shows how one mother coped and recovered.
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Binge Drinking
A growing issue among adolescents is binge drinking. What is binge drinking, who is likely to be involved in binge drinking and what are the effects and consequences of this behavior are all questions answered in this program. Geoff Munro, the Director of the Australian Drug Foundation’s Community Alcohol Action Network describes the effects of alcohol in the body and the consequences of alcohol addiction. Also included are views from young people about their attitudes towards binge drinking, some warning signs for detecting alcohol addiction in friends and strategies for reducing alcohol consumption and drinking responsibly.
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The Tandou Brief
Focusing of the activities of the internationally recognised studio of Hoyne Design, this program introduces students to the way in which a professional design company approaches creating a solution to a design brief, for a multi-million dollar agri-business client. It also examines the way in which script and photographic personnel contribute to the process of creating a corporate brand from scratch; and we see the results of their efforts.
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Trail of the Elephants
Creating a new purpose built enclosure for the elephants of Melbourne Zoo, that gave visitors to the exhibit a cultural experience of the animals native homeland, and also met the unique housing needs of the elephants; was a collaborative exercise between specialist environmental designers and zoo staff. The program examines how the project progressed, the personnel involved, and responses to the completed design solution.
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Escape From Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
In ESCAPE From SUBURBIA director Greg Greene once again takes us “through the looking glass” on a journey of discovery – a sobering yet vital and ultimately positive exploration of what the second half of the Oil Age has in store for us. Through personal stories and interviews we examine how declining world oil production has already begun to affect modern life in North America. Expert scientific opinion is balanced with “on the street” portraits from an emerging global movement of citizen’s groups who are confronting the challenges of Peak Oil in extraordinary ways.