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...Open University...[The OU's Berrill Building] Society Matters aims to help students of The Open University, particularly those in Social Sciences, to make connections between their studies and the wider world. It can be useful to reflect on who has helped to create and maintain the ideas of the Faculty. In the light of the recent deaths of a tutor, who retired in 2015 and...

...sources of funding, or new powers for the local authority; it simply confers the right for a local authority to refer to itself as a ‘city’. However, as a visit to the MK Council’s MK50 website will reveal, this is already the case. After all, as the researcher John Beckett suggests, there is little the government can do to stop any local authority calling itself a...

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Background In early 2000 Medical Secretaries in North East Glasgow (NEG) NHS Trust, which included Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow Western Infirmary and Gartnavel General Hospital, became aware that they were being paid up to £2000 per year less than Management Secretaries. Management Secretaries were on grade...

...source shines a light on an object, the luminance (brightness) of the object and its surrounding should be similar. If an image of an object is superimposed into another image, their luminance is likely to be different. By carefully analysing the luminance differences of the superimposed image, it is possible to detect where images are superimposed together. Spot a fake...