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Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...class of polymeric materials of widely varying properties. The properties and common uses of a selection of both general-purpose and speciality rubbers are shown in Table 1. Table 1 General-purpose and speciality rubbers: properties and uses RUBBER GENERAL PROPERTIES TYPICAL USES BR butadiene (polybutadiene) Special-purpose rubbers of density 0.93 Mg m−3. Good...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...class and – in some circumstances – gender. Categories such as race, class and gender often interact to produce sometimes subtle and sometimes overt processes of inclusion and exclusion. Watch the video below, which is taken from an interview with sociologist Radhika Mongia, then complete Activity 1. RADHIKA MONGIA For something like the passport to function, more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...class, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity and ability are all part of someone’s identity and they are not experienced exclusively...Sporting women in the media: 2 Gender discrimination in sport - You will start your exploration of gender discrimination in sport by reflecting on your knowledge of male and female athletes, in the activity below. Activity 2 Guess who...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...class lines. The majority of the Irish population was Catholic, particularly in the south and west of the island with significant pockets in the north, while Ulster was largely Protestant. These divisions were in many ways the result of English plantation policies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which resulted in Irish-owned lands being confiscated and...
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Article 45 mins
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...variables were discussed, there was never any economic analysis. The discussions were exhausted at the level of rules and agreed targets. I found myself talking at cross-purposes with my interlocutors. They would say things like: “The rules on the primary surplus specify that yours should be at least 3.5% of GDP in the medium term.” I would try to have an economic...
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Article 10 mins
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...classes of LTI (linear time-invariant) digital filter: the finite impulse response (FIR) filter and the infinite impulse response (IIR) filter. An IIR filter requires fewer computations to achieve the same performance as an FIR filter, so has a speed advantage. However, an IIR can have stability issues and also non-linear phase issues (where signals of different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...variables. It leaves no room within its framework for social, psychological, and behavioral dimensions of illness’ (1977, p. 196). But this model clearly needs to be expanded to encompass a broader, more holistic approach to treatment and care. Although holism considers ‘the complete woman’ by looking, for example, for social and emotional explanations for their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...variables to explore and explain natural phenomena. In particular, science, concerned with cause and effect, was seen as capable of showing why a policy or practice might work in some circumstances, or in relation to some people, and not others. This is known as positivism – a research paradigm associated with scientific theories that strongly influences the social...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs