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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...becomes poorer. The crop of Brexiteer politicians currently dominating British politics as well as seeming surprisingly incompetent also appear to be low in integrity. Their actions across the Brexit landscape violate standards of democratic accountability, trust and fairness in the pursuit of the ideological goals of eurosceptics and UKIP. Their mission also seems to be...
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Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...becoming trivial occurrences in everyday life. Technology moves fast, but the means of understanding its movements do not, given the new media theory’s obligate and persistent homage to Deleuze’s early nineties programme. The gratuitousness of this reference today, combined with the lack of specificity concerning contemporary implementations of cybernetic modes of...
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Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...become so increasingly important to a diverse number of businesses and organizations? Organisations see building a relationship with their customers as a crucial step in understanding and meeting their needs. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the term used to describe the processes for capturing data about these customers and managing relationships with them. The...
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Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...students between 1985 and 1995. The collection of articles uses the course materials to give an overview of issues past and present in the West of Ireland and provide a snapshot of changes to aspects of economy and society in two Irish case study areas first looked at by Pat Jess in 1983: the area around Glencolmcille in Southwest Donegal and the coastal town of Killala...
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Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...OU’s MSc in Human Resource Management....Human Resource Management and EDI: Introduction - Human Resource Management and EDI is a free course provided by OpenLearn, based on adapted material from B810. This course will highlight why equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are key for the practice of Human Resource Management (HRM) today. This includes the promotion of...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...OU/BBC co-production 'The Search for a New Earth' - another great example of his ability to communicate science to the masses and make it accessible. See the box below: Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. In 1963 he was diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neurone Disease, and later confined to a wheelchair and forced to communicate via a computerised...
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The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...becomes the initial infected network of the state. The complete initial network is constructed by adding additional susceptible nodes so that the number of nodes matches the population of the state. We then simulate the growth of this network under specified parameters. We also look at the healthcare capacity in India across different states and analyse the overall...
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The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...OU, and this amazing summer we’re having has made me think about how artists have depicted summer over the centuries. Before the modern era, people’s sense of the different times of year was really shaped by the cycle of nature, so for them summer meant the fruits and flowers that the earth produces at this season, as you can see from this bizarre figure personifying...
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