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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: (c) hudiemm/iStockphoto.com Text: Activity 2: Green Paper: Towards a Common Understanding of Risk by The True Potential Centre for The Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin) The Business School of The Open University © The Open University Activity 2: Question 5: White Paper: Towards a Common Understanding of Risk by The True Potential ......
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...C. (2016) Weapons of Math Destruction. Penguin. PricewaterhouseCoopers (2021). How will artificial intelligence affect the UK economy? Available at: https://www.pwc.co.uk/ services/ economics/ insights/ the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-on-the-uk-economy.html (Accessed 31/03/21). Srnicek, N. (2020). Data, Compute, Labour: The monopolisation of AI is not just – or...
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...la Madrid of Mexico, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Olof Palme of Sweden, and Andreas Papandreou of Greece made the following proposal: We urge, as a necessary first step, the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as the United Kingdom, France and China, to halt all testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems, to be immediately...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...c) World Health Organisation; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo/ Figure 6: Pistol Peet in Flickr https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nd/ 2.0/: Figure 7: Elisa Bogas Save the Children in /Flickr made available under https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/ Figures 8 and 9: adapted from Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institute...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...c Discussion A few more examples are provided in the following table: Table 3 Ecosystem services Category Examples of service Provisioning services (products obtained from ecosystems) foods of all types water minerals chemicals energy sources Regulating services (benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes) climate regulation waste processing purification...
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...C. Dunbar (2011) Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction. New York and London: Routledge. Sophie Fuller (1994) The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States, 1629–Present. London: Pandora Books. Laura Hamer (ed.) (2021) The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Karin Pendle (ed.) (1991) Women &...
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...c/ en_uk/ products/ security/ firewalls/ what-is-a-firewall.html Fortinet: https://www.fortinet.com/ resources/ cyberglossary/ firewall.html Checkpoint: https://www.checkpoint.com/ definitions/ what-is-firewall/ Palo Alto Networks: https://blog.fuelusergroup.org/ from-first-gen-to-next-gen-the-evolution-of-the-firewall...Week 6: Network security: Acknowledgements - This...
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Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...C., Berntson, E., Leineweber, C. and Aronsson, G. (2016), ‘Stuck in a job: being “locked-in” or at risk of becoming locked-in at the workplace and well-being over time’, Work & Stress, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 152–72...Week 1: Where are you now?: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Martin Pennington. Except for third party materials and otherwise...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs