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What is it like for a doctor to pronounce a patient dead?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is it like for a doctor to pronounce a patient dead?

...base and minimal understanding of a new hospital’s electronic and interpersonal quirks, I appreciate algorithms. “If x, then y” gives me relatively secure footing to rest decision-making upon, mainly because the decisions are pre-determined. There’s not much that’s more algorithmic than a pronouncement. If called for one, go into the patient’s room. If the...
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Gas shielded arc welding processes (TIG/MIG/MAG)
Science, Maths & Technology

Gas shielded arc welding processes (TIG/MIG/MAG)

...base gives the following advantages: provides smoother transfer of weld metal, increases the fluidity of the weld pool and increases the wettability of the weld metal. Materials: TIG welding d.c. welding used for carbon and alloy steels, heat resistant and stainless steels, copper and its alloys, nickel and its alloys. a.c. welding is required to TIG weld aluminium,...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...based methods gave the young people (aged 13-16 years) who took part a chance to talk about migration, language brokering and identity and our focus was on the narratives that emerged as part of that process. Another overall aim of the project was to raise awareness and visibility of the practice of language brokering and, as part of this, we ran two workshops, one...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...based at The Open University and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, plans to explore some of these questions. This two-year study will be working with Action for Children, a national voluntary organisation, to examine the relationships between male and female professionals and teenage boys in contact with welfare services. Underlying this research project...
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Introduction to the Amazon System
Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...based on the conversion and degradation of its natural ecosystem – its forests – is gaining momentum (see the interactive map from the University of Maryland). Yet, there are also many examples of the sustainable exploitation of the Amazon’s natural resources alongside the protection of its biological and cultural diversity. A complex situation The situation in the...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Austria

...based dough and filled with a mix of ground nuts, raisins and sugar or poppy seeds, raisins and sugar. Die Kekse Kekse are small, sweet biscuits of various tastes and shapes, traditionally served during Advent, before Christmas. Image: © Uschi Stickler Die Topfengolatsche Topfengolatsche is a traditional Austrian cake, very popular in Vienna. It's made with sweet yeast...
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Doctor Who: Is time travel possible?
Science, Maths & Technology

Doctor Who: Is time travel possible?

...based on non-relativistic assumptions. This can be understood by the realisation that, for the rapidly moving muons, time runs more slowly, so allowing more of them to survive the trip. [Tardis on beach] And this is what makes time travel into the future possible. Imagine that you boarded a spaceship to the star Tau Ceti, which is 12 light years away. Your spaceship can...
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Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two
Society, Politics & Law

Dropping the population bomb - 50 years of BBC environmental broadcasting, part two

...running through these podcasts recur throughout the Open University’s interdisciplinary environment curriculum. You can find out more by visiting the Module pages. Both of these podcasts are based on research funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. You can find more about the research here: http://earthinvision.org/ team on Twitter @EarthInVision...
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