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Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...simple nor straightforward. [Figure 1] (From One Day We Had To Run – written by Sybella Wilkes and published by Evans Brothers Limited. Copyright © Sybella Wilkes 1994. All rights reserved. This image may not be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission of Evans Brothers Limited.) Figure 1 Crossing the River Gillo by Mac...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...simple economic model in that it abstracts from the many things going on in a market to focus on only two: the quantity demanded of the good and its price. Look at Figure 3, and notice that the vertical and horizontal axes are ‘anchored’ at the zero point, called the origin. As with all such diagrams, movements up the vertical axis, and along the horizontal axis to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...simple calculations on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and running costs and understand the possible limitations to their deployment describe the key differences between petrol and diesel engines describe the low-carbon fuels and vehicle technologies available to reduce emissions...Transport and Sustainability: 1 The transport energy challenge - Activity 1 Timing: 10...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...simple answers to these questions. However, the factors influencing entrepreneurial activity are really rather complex and the subject of continuing debate. As you begin to take a more detailed look at the evidence and arguments you may find it useful to relate them to your own experience. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course BB846...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...simple answer is that strongly social animals normally have no choice. They may be beaten in a fight by a stronger animal or an alliance of animals. But they may be better off remaining in the group because life alone, outside the group, may be even more stressful and dangerous than life as a subordinate. Being in such situations can be very stressful for animals,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...code among many that a culture may utilize for endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a metacode, a human universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature of shared reality can be transmitted’ (White, 1980, p. 6). This narrative structure explains why it is difficult to pick out only parts of a biography (and why, shortly, you will be...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...codes for the amino acid alanine. GAG → GAACorrect. Both GAG and GAA are codons for glutamic acid. Therefore, substitution of G by A will still produce a functional Hb protein. GAG → CAGIncorrect. Substitution of G by C will produce the codon CAG which codes for the amino acid glutamine. a. GAG → GCG b. GAG → GAA c. GAG → CAG The correct answer is b. b. Correct....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...simple examples. The diagram in Figure 7 should help with this, as it shows how kilometres relate to miles: [Described image] Figure 7 Converting miles to kilometres So if the distance is 3 km, you will have 0.6214 miles three times; if the distance is 10 km, you will have 0.6214 miles 10 times; if the distance is 250 km, you will have 0.6214 miles 250 times, and so on....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs