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Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...busy to recall the experience and so little conscious learning takes place. Of course, it’s useful to carry out familiar activities ‘on auto-pilot’ – without conscious attention. It’s easy to miss out on important learning from unfamiliar activities too. I may become wrapped up in the activity itself or simply not notice the range and quality of the experience....
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...busy access road. Risk The risk associated with a particular hazard is the chance that somebody could be harmed, together with an indication of how serious the harm could be. Hence risk is often expressed in the form of an equation: risk = severity of harm × likelihood of occurrence A common way to use this equation is to rank both severity and likelihood on a scale of 1...
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...Business School...Week 3: Sugar, yeast and life: Introduction - JANET SUMNER Hello and welcome to Week 3. Over the last two weeks you've investigated the physical properties of some materials, both solid and liquids. And you've also investigated how water can move through a cell wall, which showed us one of the molecular properties. This week your simple experiment is...
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...business activities. Bonds normally pay interest annually to those investing in them and have a maturity date at which point the investor receives back the money originally invested. * building society A mutual organisation whose main function is the offering of savings accounts and the provision of mortgages to finance the purchase of property or land. * cash card A card...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...business of articulating the words too, you should be in a good position to discriminate between the rapidity of the flies and the heavier movement of the bees, and to notice how tactile the language is. The effect is actually to create sensuality in the stanza. (b) Notice that though we begin with flies, bees and rooks, all of which are fairly common flying creatures, we...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...businesses, Tats Cru was once a graffiti crew that wrote illegally on subway trains. Now legitimate aerosol artists, the group incorporated in the early 1990s and has been commissioned to do work for a variety of companies such as small neighborhood businesses as well as bigger corporations such as Coca-Cola, Firestone, Reebok, the Bronx Museum of Arts, and Chivas Regal....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...business and the workplace. We are also leading the way in developing short courses for academic research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...business lunches: Spaniards are very particular about food and wine, and business deals are often made over lunch or dinner in a restaurant. Chatting together after a meal is known as estar de sobremesa. B Listen to the short dialogues on the following audio track and decide which are initiated by the customer and which by the waiter. Escucha y decide. What are these...