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COURSE INFORMATION Embark on our GLP course offering extensive guidance and pragmatic support tailored for individuals serving as Study Directors or Principal Investigators overseeing non-clinical safety studies on pharmaceuticals, agricultural, and industrial chemicals within the realm of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP). This comprehensive programme extends its benefits to study staff and management operating in GLP-compliant environments. The course extensively covers the current OECD GLP Principles and UK GLP legislation, while also referencing international standards, regulations, and guidelines pertinent to the field. BENEFITS OF THIS COURSE: * Practical help and guidance on the interpretation and application of GLP * An opportunity to update your knowledge of GLP with the current interpretation of requirements * Access to an experienced panel of speakers * Information on how other organisations address GLP issues * An opportunity to improve your understanding of the GLP requirements as they are applied in different situations. THIS COURSE IS STRUCTURED TO ENCOURAGE DELEGATES TO: * Discuss and develop ideas * Solve specific problems * Examine particular aspects of GLP * Learn from the experience of others. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORS Tutors will be comprised of (click the photos for biographies): TIM STILES Consultant, Qualogy Ltd TONY WOODALL Head of Quality Assurance, Alderley Analytical GILL ARMOUR Study Monitor Team Leader, AstraZeneca JANE ELLISTON Senior Quality Assurance Auditor, Battelle UK VANESSA GRANT -, - JEANET LOGSTED CEO, Scantox -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAMME Please note timings may be subject to alteration. DAY 1 09:00 REGISTRATION 09:15 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS 09:35 DEVELOPMENT OF GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE A review of the history of GLP, its current scope and application, with a synopsis of current European and international standards. 10:05 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The responsibilities of study director, test facility, management and study staff in the conduct of a GLP study. 10:45 BREAK 11:00 THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STUDY DIRECTOR AND TEST FACILITY MANAGEMENT The role of the study director in the management and control of a study, as defined by GLP, and management's roles are explored. 11:45 MULTI-SITE STUDIES What is a multi-site study and when should such concepts be applied on a study. The role of the study director and principal investigator in the planning, conduct and reporting of multi-site study are explored. 12:30 STUDY PLAN (PROTOCOLS) GLP requirements for the preparation of a study plan, content, authorisation, amendments and deviations are discussed. 13:00 LUNCH 13:45 WORKSHOP 1 - THE STUDY PLAN Some practical problems with study plans and amendments explored. 14:45 WORKSHOP 1 - FEEDBACK 15:00 STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES The control, content and authorisation of SOPs and the principles behind the practice. 15:30 BREAK 15:45 WORKSHOP 2 - PRACTICAL STUDY CONDUCT PROBLEMS Dealing with practical problems encountered during the conduct of studies. 16:40 WORKSHOP 2 - FEEDBACK 17:15 CLOSE OF DAY DAY 2 09:00 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Discussion of issues raised by course delegates. 09:20 QUALITY ASSURANCE The interactions between QA, management, study director and principal Investigator are discussed as is QAs role when conducting a multi-site study. 10:00 THE FINAL REPORT The content of the final report and the role of those involved in its preparation and approval. Specific reporting requirements when conducting a multi-site study are also explained. 10:30 BREAK 10:45 WORKSHOP 3 - FINAL REPORT PROBLEMS Practical problems of report preparation including compliance statements. 11:30 WORKSHOP 3 - FEEDBACK 12:00 MANAGEMENT OF RAW DATA AND RECORDS A view on how records and materials are managed and archived in compliance with GLP. 12:45 LUNCH 13:30 WORKSHOP 4 - DATA AND SAMPLE MANAGEMENT ISSUES Dealing with data and sample management issues. 14:15 WORKSHOP 4 - FEEDBACK 14:45 REGULATORY INSPECTION Government monitoring for compliance with Good Laboratory Practice. 15:15 PANEL SESSION This panel session will address any outstanding issues raised by delegates. 15:45 CLOSE OF COURSE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTRA INFORMATION Face-to-face course COURSE MATERIAL Course material will be available in PDF format for delegates attending this course. The advantages of this include: * Ability for delegates to keep material on a mobile device * Ability to review material at any time pre and post course * Environmental benefits – less paper being used per course. The material will be emailed in advance of the course and RQA will not be providing any printed copies of the course notes during the training itself. Delegates wishing to have a hard copy of the notes should print these in advance to bring with them. Alternatively delegates are welcome to bring along their own portable devices to view the material during the training sessions. Remote course COURSE MATERIAL This course will be run completely online. You will receive an email with a link to our online system, which will house your licensed course materials and access to the remote event. Please note this course will run in UK timezone. THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS INCLUDE: * Ability for delegates to keep material on a mobile device * Ability to review material at any time pre and post course * Environmental benefits – less paper being used per course Access to an online course group to enhance networking. You will need a stable internet connection, a microphone and a webcam.   CPD POINTS 14 Points   DEVELOPMENT LEVEL Develop

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LTE ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides a comprehensive tour of the LTE architecture along with services provided and the protocols used. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the overall architecture of LTE. * Explain the information flows through LTE. * Describe the LTE security. * Describe LTE mobility management. * Recognise the next steps for LTE. LTE ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with LTE. * Prerequisites: Mobile communications demystified * Duration 3 days LTE ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction History, LTE key features. The 4G ITU process. The LTE 3GPP specifications. Specifications. * System Architecture LTE hardware architecture. UE architecture and capabilities. E-UTRAN and eNB. EPC, MME functions, SGW, PGW and PCRF. System interfaces and protocol stacks. Example information flows. Dedicated and default bearers. EMM, ECM, RRC state diagrams. * Radio transmission and reception OFDMA, SC-FDMA, MIMO antennas. Air interface protocol stack. Logical, transport and physical channels. Frame and slot structure, the resource grid. Resource element mapping of the physical channels and signals. Cell acquisition, data transmission and random access. MAC, RLC, PDCP protocols. LTE spectrum allocation. * Power-on procedures Network and cell selection. RRC connection establishment. Attach procedure, including IP address allocation and default bearer activation. LTE detach procedure. * Security in LTE networks LTE security features, identity confidentiality, ciphering and integrity protection. Architecture of network access security in LTE. Secure key hierarchy. Authentication and key agreement procedure. Security mode command procedure. Network domain security architecture. Security associations using IKE and IPSec. * Mobility management RRC_IDLE, RRC_CONNECTED. Cell reselection, tracking area updates. Measurement reporting. X2 and S1 based handovers. Interoperation with UMTS, GSM and non-3GPP technologies such as cdma2000. * QoS, policy control and charging QoS in LTE, EPS bearers, service data flows and packet flows. The architecture and signalling procedures for policy and charging control. Data transport using GPRS, differentiated services and MPLS. Offline and online charging in LTE. * Delivery of voice and text messages over LTE Difficulties and solutions for Voice over LTE. Architecture and call setup procedures for circuit switched fallback. Architecture, protocols and call setup procedures in IP multimedia subsystem. * Enhancements in release 9 LTE location services. Multimedia broadcast / multicast service and MBSFN. Cell selection, commercial mobile alert service. * LTE Advanced and release 10 Impact of carrier aggregation on LTE air interface. Enhanced MIMO processing on uplink and downlink. Relaying. Release 11 and beyond. * OAM and self organising networks Operation, administration, maintenance and provisioning for LTE. Self-configuration of base station parameters. Fractional frequency re-use, inter-cell interference co-ordination. Self-optimisation of base station procedures. Self-healing to detect and recover from faults.

Organisational retreat, organisational seminar, executive development,

Belinda and Fionn invite you to join in a heartfelt celebration of gratitude towards Earth Mother for her abundant blessings. In the midst of our busy lives, it's easy to overlook the gifts bestowed upon us by Mother Earth. But by reconnecting with our deep ties to the natural world, you can open the door to balance and harmony in your life.

This course will develop knowledge from the FD&FA foundation BS 5839-1 module and/or industry experience and apply this to the design of FD&FA systems.

MICROSOFT LYNC TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course teaches IT staff how to plan, design, deploy, configure, and administer a Microsoft Lync Server solution. The course emphasizes Lync Server Enterprise Unified Communications features focussing particularly on coexisting with and migrating from legacy communication services. The labs in this course create a solution that includes IM and Presence, Conferencing, and Persistent Chat. This course helps prepare for Exam 70-336. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the Lync Server architecture. * Install and deploy Lync Server. * Use Lync Server management interfaces. * Deploy and manage clients. * Manage and administer dial-in conferencing. * Design audio and video for web conferencing. * Plan for instant message and presence Federation. * Deploy and configure persistent chat in Lync. * Configure archiving and monitoring services. * Troubleshoot Lync Server. * Describe the required daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance tasks. * Use SIP commands and analyze SIP logs. * Configure high availability features in Lync. * Design load balancing in Lync Server. * Backup and restore Lync Server data. MICROSOFT LYNC TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Microsoft Lync. * Prerequisites: Supporting Windows 2008 or 2012. * Duration 5 days MICROSOFT LYNC TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Microsoft Lync Server architecture Lync Server architecture, Lync core capabilities, Lync design process, assessing infrastructure requirements and updating the design, planning for all Microsoft solutions framework phases. * Designing a Lync Server topology Infrastructure requirements for Lync Server, using the planning tool, using topology builder, server infrastructure, documentation. Hands on Environment preparation and Lync Server pools. * Users and rights in Microsoft Lync Server Managing Lync Server, role based access control. Hands on Using the management shell, configuring role-based access control. * Client/device deployment and management Deploy and manage clients, prepare for device deployment, IP phones. Hands on Clients. * Conferencing in Lync Server Introduction to conferencing in Lync Server, designing for audio\video and web conferencing, dial-in conferencing in Lync Server, managing and administering conferencing. Hands on Conferencing in Microsoft Lync. * Designing and deploying external access Conferencing and external capabilities of Lync Server, planning for IM and presence federation, designing edge services. Hands on Deploying Edge Server and Configuring Remote Access, Validating the Edge Server. * Deploying Lync Server persistent chat Overview of persistent chat architecture in Lync Server, designing persistent chat, deploying and persistent chat. Hands on persistent chat server. * Monitoring and archiving The archiving service, the monitoring service, configuring archiving and monitoring. Hands on Archiving and monitoring in Lync Server. * Administration and maintenance of Lync Lync Server troubleshooting tools, Lync Server operational tasks, Lync Server troubleshooting techniques. Hands on Lync administration tools, centralized logging service, analysing Lync Server logs and traces. * High Availability in Lync Server High availability in Lync Server, configuring high availability in Lync Server, planning for load balancing, designing load balancing. Hands on Configuring database mirroring, experiencing a scheduled SQL Server outage, experiencing an unscheduled SQL Server outage. * Disaster recovery in Lync Server Disaster recovery in Lync Server, tools for backing up and restoring Lync Server, critical Lync Server data to back up and restore, critical data to export and import, designing branch site resiliency. Hands on Configure pool pairing, experiencing a pool failure or outage. * Planning a migration to Lync Server Coexistence and migration, migration steps, planning for clients and devices. Designing a client migration and device migration strategy. Hands on Creating a migration plan, documenting the migration phases.

SECURING UNIX SYSTEMS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course teaches you everything you need to know to build a safe Linux environment. The first section handles cryptography and authentication with certificates, openssl, mod_ssl, DNSSEC and filesystem encryption. Then Host security and hardening is covered with intrusion detection, and also user management and authentication. Filesystem Access control is then covered. Finally network security is covered with network hardening, packet filtering and VPNs. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Secure UNIX accounts. * Secure UNIX file systems. * Secure UNIX access through the network. SECURING UNIX SYSTEMS COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Linux technical staff needing to secure their systems. * Prerequisites: Linux system administration (LPIC-1) * Duration 5 days SECURING UNIX SYSTEMS COURSE CONTENTS * Cryptography * Certificates and Public Key Infrastructures X.509 certificates, lifecycle, fields and certificate extensions. Trust chains and PKI. openssl. Public and private keys. Certification authority. Manage server and client certificates. Revoke certificates and CAs. * Encryption, signing and authentication SSL, TLS, protocol versions. Transport layer security threats, e.g. MITM. Apache HTTPD with mod_ssl for HTTPS service, including SNI and HSTS. HTTPD with mod_ssl to authenticate users using certificates. HTTPD with mod_ssl to provide OCSP stapling. Use OpenSSL for SSL/TLS client and server tests. * Encrypted File Systems Block device and file system encryption. dm-crypt with LUKS to encrypt block devices. eCryptfs to encrypt file systems, including home directories and, PAM integration, plain dm-crypt and EncFS. * DNS and cryptography DNSSEC and DANE. BIND as an authoritative name server serving DNSSEC secured zones. BIND as an recursive name server that performs DNSSEC validation, KSK, ZSK, Key Tag, Key generation, key storage, key management and key rollover, Maintenance and resigning of zones, Use DANE. TSIG. * Host Security * Host Hardening BIOS and boot loader (GRUB 2) security. Disable useless software and services, sysctl for security related kernel configuration, particularly ASLR, Exec-Shield and IP / ICMP configuration, Exec-Shield and IP / ICMP configuration, Limit resource usage. Work with chroot environments, Security advantages of virtualization. * Host Intrusion Detection The Linux Audit system, chkrootkit, rkhunter, including updates, Linux Malware Detect, Automate host scans using cron, AIDE, including rule management, OpenSCAP. * User Management and Authentication NSS and PAM, Enforce password policies. Lock accounts automatically after failed login attempts, SSSD, Configure NSS and PAM for use with SSSD, SSSD authentication against Active Directory, IPA, LDAP, Kerberos and local domains, Kerberos and local domains, Kerberos tickets. * FreeIPA Installation and Samba Integration FreeIPA, architecture and components. Install and manage a FreeIPA server and domain, Active Directory replication and Kerberos cross-realm trusts, sudo, autofs, SSH and SELinux integration in FreeIPA. * Access Control * Discretionary Access Control File ownership and permissions, SUID, SGID. Access control lists, extended attributes and attribute classes. * Mandatory Access Control TE, RBAC, MAC, DAC. SELinux, AppArmor and Smack. * etwork File Systems NFSv4 security issues and improvements, NFSv4 server and clients, NFSv4 authentication mechanisms (LIPKEY, SPKM, Kerberos), NFSv4 pseudo file system, NFSv4 ACLs. CIFS clients, CIFS Unix Extensions, CIFS security modes (NTLM, Kerberos), mapping and handling of CIFS ACLs and SIDs in a Linux system. * Network Security * Network Hardening FreeRADIUS, nmap, scan methods. Wireshark, filters and statistics. Rogue router advertisements and DHCP messages. * Network Intrusion Detection ntop, Cacti, bandwidth usage monitoring, Snort, rule management, OpenVAS, NASL. * Packet Filtering Firewall architectures, DMZ, netfilter, iptables and ip6tables, standard modules, tests and targets. IPv4 and IPv6 packet filtering. Connection tracking, NAT. IP sets and netfilter rules, nftables and nft. ebtables. conntrackd * Virtual Private Networks OpenVPN server and clients for both bridged and routed VPN networks. IPsec server and clients for routed VPN networks using IPsec-Tools / racoon. L2TP.

Plasma pen fibroblast training for the face and body including soft surgery. Train one to one or very small groups. International accreditation. Lifelong support. Train with Carol May LMA Skin Clinic. On completion you will be able to offer your clients: Wrinkle rejuvenation & face lifting Hooded eyes & eye bags Glabella lines Nasal labia Marionette lines Neck lines Stretch marks & scar repair Mole removal Skin tags Cherry angioma Thread veins Xanthelasma Seborrheic keratosis plus many more soft surgery options You will benefit from online pre study plus in-clinic training and ongoing support Models can be provided if required You will receive a genuine medical grade plasma device (not electrical arcing) Total price is £2400 Your training fee can be paid in installments with Klarna We welcome national and International students

ADVANCED RF TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides a follow on to our popular RF fundamentals course for those that need to know more. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain RF propagation * Describe the importance of transmission lines in RF systems. * Recognise the issues in RF systems. * Describe transmission measurements. ADVANCED RF TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those working with RF systems. * Prerequisites: RF fundamentals. * Duration 3 days ADVANCED RF TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * RF propagation The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Electromagnetic Radiation, Spherical Wave Front, The Space Wave, Receive Antenna below the Horizon, Bending the Space Wave , Surface Wave Path, Tilting of Surface Wave, Conductivity, Layers of the Atmosphere, Variations of the Ionosphere, Variations caused by Solar Activity, Multi Hop Transmission, Classification of Radio Waves, Fading, Fading Reduction, Free Space Path Loss, Shadowing of Radio Wave, Signal Levels after Shadowing, Radio Waves as Wavelets, Fresnel Zone. * Transmission Lines Transmission Line Construction, Primary Line Constants, 'T' Networks, Input Impedence, Lossless Unbalanced Line, Standing Waves, Open Circuit / Short Circuit Termination, Short Circuit Standing Waves, Open Circuit Standing Waves, Voltage Standing Wave Pattern, Short Circuit Termination, Open Circuit Termination, The Directional Coupler, Effect of E and M Coupling, Practical Reflectometer. * Antenna Theory The Open Circuit Line, Dipole V/I Distribution, Polar Diagram, Power Pattern ½ Wave Dipole, Half Wave Dipole, Vehicle Mount, Centre Fed Whip Antenna, Antenna Beamwidth, The Yagi Array, Uda Yagi array, Antenna Characteristics, 6 Element Yagi Polar Diagram, Log Periodic Antenna, Helical Antenna. Microwave Dish Array, Typical Microwave Dish Antenna. * Transmission Measurements Transmission Measurements, Effective Isotropic Radiated Power, Fade Margin. * Noise Noise in Communications, Noise Voltage Equivalent Circuit. * Satellite Communications Satellite Communications, Large Earth Station, The Satellite Payload, Geo Stationary Orbit, Basic Orbits, VSAT Terminal, Iridium Phone, The Space Segment, Satellite Footprint, Typical System Hardware. * Mobile Communications Mobile Evolution, The Path to UMTS, Technologies Bit Rate and Mobility, Systems and Specifications, Wireless Networks, Diffraction, Multi Path Propagation, Loss Models, GSM Architecture, OSI Model - GSM, OSI Reference Model, OSI Layers.