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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...le lingue e la traduzione, perche’ pensi che queste siano questioni importanti? In che misura il tuo multilinguismo è importante per la tua arte? E in quale lingua pensi che il tuo lavoro stia comunicando con il pubblico? Laura: Thanks for this question about language, translation and the relation between my own plurilingualism and art. When we have to define what is...
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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...le Transloy, and at Ancre Heights, during which the decision was taken to terminate the campaign. With troops exhausted, casualties mounting and no sign of a breakthrough, it ended on 18 November 1916. The consequences of the Somme campaign The Somme has become emblematic of the hopeless, futile, apparently interminable slaughter of World War One. During the battle,...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...le taobh na habhann, féachaint n’fheadaraís cá dtabharfaidh an sruth é, féachaint, dála Mhaoise, an bhfóirfidh iníon Fharoinn? The Language Issue I place my hope on the water in this little boat of the language, the way a body might put an infant in a basket of intertwined iris leaves, its underside proofed with bitumen and pitch, then set the whole thing down...
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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...Sen (1999) and Martha Nussbaum argue that a certain minimum quality of life is required in order for individuals to be able to exercise their human capabilities (Nussbaum and Sen, 1993). The third debate centres upon whether it is sensible to talk about group rights as well as individual rights. Some rights, such as the right to marry and the right to have children, can...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Mathemateg bob dydd 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathemateg bob dydd 2

...le degol. Un enghraifft gyffredin o wneud hyn mewn bywyd pob dydd yw wrth ymdrin ag arian. Pe baech chi mewn bwyty ac angen rhannu bil o £87.95 rhwng tri pherson, byddech chi’n cyfrifo’r rhannu yn gyntaf. £87.95 wedi’i rannu â 3 yw £29.3166667. Yn amlwg, ni allwch dalu’r union swm hwn. Felly faint fyddech chi’n talu pe bai’r swm i bob person wedi’i...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...Sen has written: In any age and social climate, there are some sweeping beliefs that seem to command respect as a kind of general rule – like a ‘default’ setting on a computer program; they are considered right unless their claim is somehow precisely negated. While democracy is not yet universally practised, nor indeed uniformly accepted, in the general climate of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...SEN) in European schools met this definition, spending all or most of their time out of mainstream classrooms (EASIE, 2022). Statistics also highlight the problems of dealing with a whole range of behaviours which are seen as challenging in the mainstream school context. In England, in 2017, for instance, over 7000 pupils were permanently excluded from all types of state...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...Le Brocq et al., 2010). So the strengths of our study are that we use a computer model (instead of expert judgement and extrapolation), that we test it with observations, and that we use Bayes’ theorem to estimate probabilities of sea level rise. Limitations But there always limitations, and these are important to bear in mind too. Our model has simplifications to make...
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