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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...accounts of problems as an interviewing device for (1) structuring an agenda for an interview, (2) as a note-taking method during the course of an interview, thereby acting as a prompt for further questions, and/or (3) interpreting transcripts of interviews in a way that promotes analysis, questioning and understanding of the data facilitating group discussions by...
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...account on 15 October? Answer a.The minus sign (−) indicates that the customer is overdrawn, i.e. owes money to the bank. The amount shows how much they owe. So Sonia Cedar was overdrawn on 11 October by £20 and by £50 on 21 October. b.£120 was withdrawn on 11 October. The customer had £100 in the account and must have withdrawn another £20 (i.e. £100 + £20 =...
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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...account the way that the whole organisation worked. Each implementation had a high degree of individuality. Autodesk's distribution and sales channels were not used to providing the degree of support needed to implement Workcenter, nor was it clear how the extra work was to be paid for. Sticking with the existing situation, the status quo, carries least difficulty and...
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...account the influence of the neighbourhood on offending...Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency: 3 Studying the control of disorder - You are now going to look at sociological approaches to disorderly behaviour. In contrast to the psychological approaches that you have just examined, which study juvenile delinquency to find out why some individuals commit...
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...accounts: a bank balance of −£84.33 means ‘overdrawn by £84.33’. Negative numbers are shown on the number line to the left of 0. The animation below shows −8, −7, −6, etc. The numbers always increase as you move to the right along the number line, wherever you start from. 1 is to the right of −2, so 1 is greater than −2. 1° is warmer than −2° and a...
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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...account (Vignette 1) and diagnostic criterion 8 in DSM-IV-TR, described in the related OpenLearn course Emotions and emotional disorders). Depression and anxiety often comorbid, so it is not surprising that anxiety too has links to stress – as considered in the next section...Understanding depression and anxiety: 2.4 Relating stress and anxiety biologically - Anxiety is...
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...account from the narrator heightens the sense of magic. This isn’t just in Tom’s imagination: something incredible is about to happen! Tom does of course use this extra hour of freedom to leave his bed, and discovers that the back door by the Grandfather clock no longer opens onto a tiny, walled-in courtyard but a huge and beautiful garden (the ‘midnight garden’...
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...accounts. Feeling alone. Feeling like people don’t really understand you. Feeling isolated. Wanting to be treated as a ‘normal’ person. People not realising you are ill or that you are unwell. People expecting you to look and act in certain ways because of your mental health. Being called names like ‘schitzo’. Name calling, feeling alone, singled out and...