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Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...physically present. Bisiach and Luzzatti (1978) asked their patient to imagine standing in the cathedral square of the Italian city where he grew up. He was to imagine looking towards the cathedral and to describe all that was in the square. He did this very well, except that he failed to mention any of the buildings down the left-hand side of the square (his brain injury...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...Physical assets: for example, objects of art and jewellery, cars, land or property. Physical assets usually have to be sold to be transformed into cash, but property is one obvious exception because it can produce income – a rent – without being sold. Intangible assets: for example, rights to eventually receive a state pension, insurance policies that may pay out on a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...physical surroundings – as a viewer you simply do not know where the scene is set. It is also void of depth, suggesting that what you see is a divinity that neither resides in nor follows the laws of our natural world. You are, paradoxically, seeing the invisible. Turning to the Christ-Child, note that it is extremely difficult to ascertain His age. He is supposed to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...physical properties and reactivities of its compounds. Consider the boiling temperatures of the hydrides on descending Group 15: NH3, −33.4 °C; PH3, −87.7 °C; AsH3, −62.4 °C; SbH3, −18.4 °C. Why does ammonia have an uncharacteristically high value? Ammonia has a higher than expected value due to the extra intermolecular forces or hydrogen bonds between its...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...physical punishments or deprivations on them, even – in the most severe form – killing them. Such interventions are intended to stop social problems by means of controlling the people who are seen as problems (juvenile delinquents, drug takers, thieves, terrorists). Those who seek the suppression and control of social problems are usually, but not always, associated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...physics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, but his promising career in robotics came to an end when, aged 26, he collided with a police vehicle. Since that accident, on 20 December 1999, Scott had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state by a well-seasoned neurologist, Bryan Young, and in 2012 his diagnosis was confirmed by Owen’s team, again using traditional...
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Article 15 mins
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and revisited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes within the course – in order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...physical activity needs a much lower air temperature for comfort than sitting in a chair. Figure 2 shows in very simplified form the ‘comfort zone’ for sedentary activity, in terms of temperature and humidity. [Described image] Figure 2 The ‘comfort zone’ in terms of temperature and humidity for sedentary activity and people’s subjective responses to various...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs