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Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...account for the region to the right of the diagram. [Figure 5 (a)] Figure 5a Pattern of pressures for Activity 8 For a pressure wave created by a particular tuning fork, the distance from one high-pressure region to the next is fixed. A different tuning fork (that is, one that vibrates at a different rate) will produce a different separation of high- and low-pressure...
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...account of the strong feelings that young people have. In order to achieve this, workers need to develop an ability to deal with strong feelings in others, and this means being comfortable with their own feelings. In other words, being able to ‘recognise what I am feeling so that it doesn't interfere with my thinking’ (Orbach, 1999)...Working with young people: roles...
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...accounts) that these may provide some benefit in specific intestinal disorders. To date, there has been no scientific evidence to indicate that there is any benefit to healthy individuals taking probiotics (Jabr, 2017). You are going to finish off this OpenLearn course by learning about a slightly less palatable way to improve the health of the gut microbiome – faecal...
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...account of the commentator would come a calm and clinical voice saying ‘Square One’ or ‘Square Four’ and you knew just where you were! (Skinner and Purchase, 1989, pp. 169–71) Specimen answer The first major difference that I could spot was the family- and home-centred experience of listening in the autobiography, compared with the (unwanted) communal experience...
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Money & Business

Academi Arian MSE

...account. We’ll stick with that 50 pounds a month for Christmas. Then when it comes to Christmas, you know how much you can spend on it without worry. When it comes to your summer holiday, if there’s 300 quid in there, you can spend 300 quid. If you want a 600 pound holiday, you know you can’t afford it. But it also now means your actual bank account, when you look...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...account the ratio between the two types of acid...Week 2: An introduction to brewing: 1.3 Yeast - You first met yeast in Week 1 when you were introduced to the fermentation process. What is the role of yeast in fermentation? Yeast converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide during primary fermentation in brewing. Yeast is a type of fungus, with over a thousand...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...account, and that speech is a social event. Thus, the speaker is both a producer and perceiver of speech, which means that the auditory and visual information in students’ production reflects how they perceive speech. If their perception changes, their speech will also change. If their speech is corrected, their perception has also been corrected. How does it work?...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...account direction as well as magnitude. Solutions to the activities which appear in this course can be found on this page. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T194 Engineering: mathematics, modelling, applications...Introducing vectors for engineering applications: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able...