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Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...human genome is transcribed into RNA, but just the 1-2% encodes for proteins. The transcripts lacking the capability to encode for proteins are called non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Based on the aforementioned paradigm, it has been supposed for many years that RNAs were “junk genome”. Emerging evidence indicates that ncRNAs play important biological functions, particularly...
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Article 10 mins
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...human decision making: people as naïve economists (rational perspective) people as naïve psychologists (psychological perspective) and people as naïve politicians (social perspective). Financial economics, for example, rests on the first approach. People are seen as making rational judgements in pursuit of maximum expected utility. In some variants people are modelled...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...Human Welfare in South Africa’ in: World Resources 2000 − 2001: People and Ecosystems, the Fraying Web of Life , pp. 193−205, Washington, World Resources Institute...Diagramming for development 2: Exploring interrelationships: 2 The role of diagramming - The diagrams in this unit are designed to help you analyse and reflect on situations, make decisions and plan...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...human societies have always created data, digital technologies are now gathering it as a speed and volume that is unprecedented historically. Some scholars and campaigners, however, are worried that, while we're very familiar with digital screens and do lots of things with them, most of us are much less aware of the data that they gather, who owns that data, where it goes...
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Article 10 mins
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...resources or universal design? - [Described image] Figure 6 Would universal design avoid situations such as this? In the field of accessibility (and in particular with relation to eLearning) there exists an ongoing debate about the value of universal design (also known as design-for-all) versus the creation of alternative (or special) resources to meet particular needs....
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...resources. In Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) there may be no fee, no registration process (or a simpler process with less commitment when compared to other forms of education), access to reuse and repurpose the content, optional assessment, and expectations that the majority of learners will not complete the whole course through their own choice. This shift in...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...humans. In this free course, Introduction to ecosystems, you will discover how organisms are linked together by complex interrelationships, how such links are studied and how the physical properties of a particular habitat interact with the organisms that inhabit it. Using case studies, you will come to learn how knowledge of ecosystems leads to understanding of their...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...human being. The flexibility of the app is really wonderful, because you have it when you need it. So if I was having a moment, I could just reach into my pocket, get out my phone, and bring it up. But also I didn't have to take loads of time off for medical appointments. I could do the preparatory work from my own home. I could do it when my daughter was in bed. I could...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs