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An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...accounted for 7% of global electricity demand in 2012, but could be as high as 12% in 2017. Activity 2 Find the current figures for the power consumption of computers and computer systems. Compare them with these historic figures. Have the trends between 2012 and 2017 continued? Has the proportion of energy spent on manufacture continued to decline, while the proportion...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...accounting for a very high proportion of acclaimed new books. The day when one major Scottish writer, Hugh MacDiarmid, languished out of print for years on end, and another, Edwin Muir, relied on the recognition of his quality by T.S. Eliot at Faber, were clearly over. The power of the ‘metropolis’ in British poetry had significantly weakened. This corresponded to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...account. The emphasis is not on the tools (systems tools or other tools) being ‘used’, but rather the ‘user’ of the tools. An animated tutorial in two parts describing the workings of the STiP heuristic is available on OpenLearn. Activity 2 The systems thinking practitioner Read the final chapter Systems Approaches Epilogue. You will be invited to revisit this...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...accounts for the feeling of coherence and unity between the different movements of the sonata. Mozart is one of the earliest composers to create this sort of integrated approach to form, something which was to develop greatly during the 19th century. It’s really an idea associated with Romanticism, and many later works are genuinely a cycle of interconnected movements....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...account of origins and history of Rome, used the phrase ‘while they were still in the toga’ (dum togati sint) to describe generals who had not yet left on military campaign (3.10) and the politician and prolific writer Cicero (106–43 BCE) praised the first-century-BCE general and statesman Julius Caesar for being ‘clarus in toga’ – ‘distinguished’ (clarus)...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...account both environmental and human processes. It suggests looking at how these processes worked together, rather than looking for simple causes and effects taken from either the environmental or human worlds alone. Though each individual wildfire had a distinctive and specific trigger, it was the web of wider processes, circumstances, and events that was key to making...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...account, but you might be able to explain the relative sizes of the statistics. Answer You may have got something similar to Figure 34, with the decision level fairly close to 1. [Described image] Figure 34 Asymmetrical decision level Because the decision level is so close to 1, noise-affected 0 signals very rarely go beyond the decision level. This is why false...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Can tourism be both responsible and sustainable?
Nature & Environment

Can tourism be both responsible and sustainable?

...account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities’. Primarily, it is a long-term goal – it focuses on how to maintain the system of tourism and how to use it to get best value without negative impacts either now or in the future. The concept of...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs