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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...careful if you are using machine translation tools in assessment. If you want to use them like any other dictionary, to look up words or short phrases, you need to stick to the assessment guidelines and mention them in the reference section as a source you have used, just like you would do with any other source! And keep in mind that machine translation tools are mostly...
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What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...careful language planning, over time French has become a highly creative and adaptable language, incorporating a range of new words, notably from the Francophone world. For example, a recent addition to the Petit Larousse dictionary is the Cameroonian import ‘faroter’, meaning to bribe someone to obtain a job. In December 2022, the French Ministry of Culture published...
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The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer
Money & Business

The challenges of ethical trading - perspective of a retailer

...care about the employment conditions of workers and these concerns are increasingly reinforced by media campaigns which draw attention to their exploitation. All this has caused a negative impact on corporate image, reputation, sales and to some extent profitability. Such concerns have pricked the conscious of many retailers who now realise that ethical trading is...
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What is a password manager - and should I be using one?
Digital & Computing

What is a password manager - and should I be using one?

...careful using them on any computer that you do not own or have sole control of, since your data will be stored on the machine and could be misused by another user or an administrator. You should only consider using a browser’s password storage on a machine that you are the sole user of, or one where you entirely trust the other users. Under no circumstances should you...
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What is biomedicine?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is biomedicine?

...care and proper maintenance by their owners. So a biomedical account is one which gives a physical or biological explanation for health, and offers physical/biological methods for ‘repairing’ bodies when they are not working correctly. Certain tests establish what is wrong. Then antibiotics or other medicines act as a cure, or surgery can repair or replace body parts....
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...care, and support. Diversity The system fosters diversity in a range of habitat and food crops, and materially in its multi-use spaces for different seasons. There are multiple sources of energy and water given diversity is required for redundancy – or having back-up in case of system element failure(s). Dynamic balance All the sub-systems making up the house that feeds...
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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...care to clarify how exactly the further expansion of mass surveillance in the UK is supposed stop known terrorists committing murder. After all, we already have mass surveillance in the UK, as a cursory search for “Snowden”, “Tempora”, “OpticNerve” or “DRIPA” will make clear. The French intelligence and security services could not keep track of the Kouachi...
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OpenLearn choices for YASS students
Health, Sports & Psychology

OpenLearn choices for YASS students

...care, and Sport and Exercise, the choice you indicated on your form does not restrict your actual study choices. You don’t have to stick to the subjects suggested below, or what you entered on your registration form, you are free to mix and match any combination of subjects and courses, as long as the courses you choose support your study goals. The OpenLearn website...
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