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Type 1 diabetes - a long-term condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Type 1 diabetes - a long-term condition

...manage their symptoms? Type 1 diabetes occurs when insulin producing cells are destroyed, and the body can no longer produce the insulin needed to control sugar levels in the blood. It can develop at any age, but most commonly emerges in childhood. Diabetics must ensure that they don’t have too much or too little sugar in their blood as either extreme can cause medical...
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Audio 23 mins
Digital Nepal
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital Nepal

...managed to develop a wireless network and promote innovation? This collection explores how Nepal has developed its digital technological infrastructure, how it is still developing from a complex political background and gives a sense of how different cultures around the world relate to digital technology. The videos look at the country's recent history, with particular...
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Audio 31 mins
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...Introduction - Regulatory bodies require companies to prepare financial statements, as they assist a wide range of users in financial decision-making. In this course, you will learn how the users of financial statements draw inferences about the financial position and performance of the reporting entity. To understand the information presented in financial statements,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...Introduction - This free course, Supply chain sustainability, will define what is meant by a sustainable supply chain. This is important, because most of us will immediately (and often only) think of issues related to the environmental impact of the production and distribution of goods and services. Whilst the environmental perspective is certainly very important, it is...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...manage the challenges that life keeps throwing my way? If you are thinking about questions like these, Succeed with learning is just what you are looking for. This course takes your life as its starting point, developing your awareness of just how much you have already learned and what you are capable of. It will suggest ways of 'fine-tuning', and building on, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...Introduction - You might be studying, or considering learning about, more than one subject as part of your studies. Combining different subjects provides an exciting opportunity to find ways in which those subjects intersect and influence each other, across different subject boundaries. ‘Multidisciplinary’ study at The Open University includes our ‘Open’...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...managed to leave the body. Surprise, surprise: while bloodletting could help, the best cure was having sex. Sex would open up the body and move the retained blood around. It’s interesting that the idea of a “disease” worked for those who believed in the hymen as a barrier, and for those who didn’t. The latter thought that the problem was a different sort of...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...management and dynamic organizational strategies. It also is complicated by new challenges such as globalization, corporate social responsibility and growing demands for diversity. Moreover, it connects up to rising questions over whether a consumer service mentality is appropriate in all and every contexts – especially organizations ostensibly aimed at the public...
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