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Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...Business School. Week 2...Week 2: Measurement of mass and volume: Introduction - This week follows on from Week 1, which looked at measurement of length in both the International System (SI) and imperial, to consider two other common measurements: mass and volume. As well as learning about the units for these measurements in both systems, you’ll get much more practice...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...busy access road. Risk The risk associated with a particular hazard is the chance that somebody could be harmed, together with an indication of how serious the harm could be. Hence risk is often expressed in the form of an equation: risk = severity of harm × likelihood of occurrence A common way to use this equation is to rank both severity and likelihood on a scale of 1...
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...money, to reduce labour costs, to train an unskilled workforce or to discipline a population. Cutting across all these questions, Tamarla Owens' story raises issues about how ‘race’, gender, sexuality and class shape the ways in which ‘the personal’ is interpreted in the development of social policies, and how these policies might work to ‘remake’ those facets...
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...money, known as adenosine triphosphate or ATP. ATP is represented in Figure 2 and is synthesized when certain nutrients are catabolized by the body. You do not need to remember the structure of ATP, but do note the three phosphate groups (triphosphate) and the adenosine group of the molecule – these give it the name of adenosine triphosphate. [Figure 2] Figure 2 (a) The...
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...Businesses and organisations may also be victims of crime. Some crimes may not have actual victims, but pose a risk to potential victims. Consider the following extract from a newspaper report. Nobody had been injured by speeding motorists, but campaigners were concerned that they might be in future. Box 9 Speeding on a Taunton road Concerns about ‘reckless’ driving...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...business and resent being told to eat more fruit, consume less alcohol and generally pull our socks up when it comes to dinner. The efforts in 2012-13 by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban the sale of extra large soft drinks failed precisely because critics viewed it as an intrusion into the individual’s right to make their own dietary choices. “New Yorkers...
Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...choose/ ou/ open-content 2. Enjoyed this? Find out more about this topic or browse all our free course materials on OpenLearn – http://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ 3. Outside the UK? We have students in over a hundred countries studying online qualifications – http://www.openuniversity.edu/ – including an MBA at our triple accredited Business School....
Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/36507420/ns/business-us_business/t/hundreds-suppliers-one-boeing-airplane/%20-%20.VxSzNtgVGpo http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1308128/Boeings-billion-dollar-gamble-Inside-worlds-biggest-building-new-787-Dreamliner-plane-built.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/What-happens-to-lost-luggage/...