1,208 search results
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...physical and financial investment required are so large. In other cases, industry sector and legal form are closely related. For example, law firms and some other professional service firms with more than one professional working in them in the United Kingdom are legally required to be set up as partnerships and no other ownership or legal structure is
View course Different types of business
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...physically impossible. Therefore, a lack of reasonable hypothesis initiated a re-evaluation of the Moon’s formation. The demise of the past theories stresses the need for new ideas.Ted Ringwood’s 1969 binary formation model (or “precipitation” hypothesis), was the first model to take into account the compositional similarity between the Earth and the Moon...
View video Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Video 15 mins
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...physical damage to the body caused by accidents or violence...Session 1: Introducing human infectious diseases: 1.2 Symptoms and signs of infection - Symptoms are sensations in the body that only the person who is unwell can experience; for example, a headache, pain in the abdomen, blurred vision and nausea are all symptoms, because no one but the sufferer can experience...
View course Infection and immunity
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...physical product may need to store raw materials, manage packaging and be made on premises. Before long you might find that, for example, sharing a kitchen, computer, phone line or office space will create a problem with capacity. Nobody has more than 24 hours in a day! No matter how talented and willing you are to work hard and do it all, at some point you will have to...
View course Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...physical activity. Singing and dancing were on the curriculum as well as music. David McLaren Whichever Owenite community you look at whether its here or in the states, dancing features prominently. Now there’s a whole number of reasons for that, often Owen talks about the moral benefits of dancing but clearly there are other benefits as well, there are physical...
View course Robert Owen and New Lanark
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...physical items or products (Hewlett Packard, Aldi), but others may encompass many products, physical or otherwise (Google). Some of these are also names of companies (Google, Hewlett Packard) or charities (BBC, The Open University), but others are part of much larger companies (ChatGPT is owned by Open AI). This means that a brand is not quite synonymous with a given...
View course Language in professional life
Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...physical environment within that ecosystem. In desert ecosystems, insectivorous, herbivorous and seed-eating niches are occupied by small animals, including arthropods, lizards, small birds, rodents, squirrels and shrews. Medium and large-sized animals such as hares, gazelle, camels and ostrich occupy grazing and browsing niches. Predators include foxes, e.g. kit fox...
View course Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...physical phenomena to be represented as vector fields. A vector field is a mathematical representation of a system that describes how a quantity, such as a force, changes over an interval of time, or an area or volume of space. Figure 1, for example, illustrates vector fields created by magnets (in part (a)) and fluid flow (in part (b)). A vector field can be thought of...
View course Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs