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Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Nature & Environment

Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?

...introduction of a new industry — waste-to-energy plants to incinerate the 10,000 odd tonnes of municipal solid waste generated daily by New Delhi’s 25 million residents. Alarm bells first began ringing in 2014 when a WHO study of ambient air pollution in 1,600 cities across the world found New Delhi the worst. This was especially in respect to respirable suspended...
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Strategies to reduce the prison population
Society, Politics & Law

Strategies to reduce the prison population

...managed will not address the underlying problems of prisons: we cannot effectively care for people in institutions of violence. Transformations must be voluntary rather than coerced. Prisons break rather than facilitate family ties and it is impossible to teach people how to live in freedom while in captivity. [View of HM Prison Dartmoor, a Category C men's prison located...
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Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Netball Super League 2025: the Nottingham Forest rise to success!

...managed by their related Premier League football club, who say they have ‘major plans to develop a multi-sport model’. This financial backing allows them to invest in top players, coaching staff and facilities. Being linked to a Premier League brand makes Nottingham Forest Netball an attractive sponsorship opportunity for major brands, especially when we see such...
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Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...manage this change. However, UK cities have not traditionally had a strong voice in migration debates and migration has not always figured strongly in discussions around how to shape the future of communities. This reflects the narrowness of the migration debate, which often reinforces polarisation and oversimplification. Incorporating a wider range of voices and...
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All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...Introduction and overview: Introduction and overview - Welcome to the course All my own work: exploring academic integrity. As you might anticipate from the title, the aim of this short course is to help you explore the issues around producing your own work for academic purposes. This course goes beyond the ‘nuts and bolts’ of referencing styles to enable you to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...Introduction - This course explores how retailers make use of marketing to identify and communicate with their customers. The course begins by creating a definition of retailing before exploring the importance of marketing with a retail context. The final part looks at how retailers might use marketing communications to interact and communicate with their customers. As...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Injection moulding
Science, Maths & Technology

Injection moulding

...projected area of the component that can be produced. Locking can be either mechanical or hydraulic, although mechanical locking is considered to give faster cycle times. A typical injection moulding cycle is shown below. It has been claimed that by reducing the floor cycle time from 25 to 24 s, 2 weeks of production time per year can be saved. [Diagram of an injection...
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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching

...ever-increasing importance of digital literacy and artificial intelligence, they also equip language learners with an additional employability skill. References, sources and links von Lindeiner-Stráský, K. (2022). unpublished project report ‘Web-based Machine Translation in Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment’, Praxis-Project, The Open University 2020-2022....
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