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Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...physical forces such as pressure, surface tension, resistance and compliance determine the amount of airflow through the respiratory and conduction zones of the respiratory system...Blood and the respiratory system: 1.1 Structure of the respiratory system - Pulmonary ventilation, the movement of air into and out of the lungs, involves the main structures of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...physical move takes place over the weekend, then the impact on the department will be reduced considerably. I suppose there’s always a problem with people taking holidays, of course, and I do think I’ve actually got someone on maternity leave then as well. MARCUS I think Estates have already got most of this all in hand. What they’ve asked us to look at primarily is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...physically close the book, or turn a page over) – this helps to remove the temptation to ‘just check’ as you make your notes. Start by listing the essential ideas, using key words or short phrases. Using these key words/phrases, write some notes in full sentences that express your understanding of the original source. Keep in mind that you are focussing on the core...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...physically incapacitated and so cannot take their own lives. However, others believe that it is morally wrong in any circumstances to help someone to die and campaign against the right to die...Week 1: What is law?: 4 Law and justice - Interconnected with the ideas of law and morality is the notion of justice. Achieving justice is often regarded as the main aim or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...physics, completely accept that. RH: Well you say that, but there were some sceptics, you wouldn’t put yourself in this camp presumably, who have resisted each one of those facts along the way and slowly, slowly moved along? MR: There are certainly some sceptics who’ve resisted those facts all along, but I’m not convinced that there are some who started out...
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Audio 5 mins
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...Physical, temporal and social psychological contexts can seriously impact on a person’s identity, their ability to learn and to re-form their identity. ‘I’m at university now so I’m a student, I’m at work now so I’m an employee, I’m home now so I’m a daughter/son/mother/father’. Who we are, is very tightly interwoven with what we have learned (Bernstein...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...physical responses that show the reader her anxiety – shutting her eyes and then reopening them. Whether Bowen is exploring her character’s outer world or her inner psychological world, setting the scene is key to the frightening effects she creates in her fiction. [Elizabeth Bowen blue plaque]Elizabeth Bowen blue plaque - Wikimedia Commons (Optional) Creative writing...
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Article 45 mins
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...physical, but also moral, ruination such as history has never previously experienced. He represented an extreme pathology of modern society. He showed us the most radical face of modern inhumanity – how an advanced society can undergo a breathtaking descent into modern barbarity that’s quite without precedent. That’s what, with the passage of time, we can see was...
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Audio 45 mins