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Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry
Society, Politics & Law

Why grow a tree? Barriers and boosters for landowners to adopt agroforestry

...techniques and practical skills required to understand the world of production, employment, spending and borrowing, and the effects of government policy and technical innovation. Our economics degree programmes and modules are regularly updated to reflect the latest research and events. The OU Economics Seminar Series promotes high-quality research bringing together...
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Preparing tutorials for dyslexic language students
Education & Development

Preparing tutorials for dyslexic language students

...techniques they have tried and works for them and how they would like to be helped. Many dyslexic learners find it helpful to read texts written on a darker background. If this is the case for a particular student, the teacher can send a PowerPoint template containing a set of different backgrounds to choose from. The chosen background can then be used in all slides or...
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Women Writers: Voices in Transition
History & The Arts

Women Writers: Voices in Transition

...techniques and styles? For centuries there have been women writers who have changed the face of literature, but we tend to talk of their lives and work in very certain terms. This series of video-slideshows reveals how writing and reputation are often forged in transition, uncertainty and change. In these 4 films we re-examine the lives, work and influence of: Virginia...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...techniques of analysis. Quite what counts as analysis is controversial, but one central method that has been used is the breaking down of complex concepts into simpler components. To take a typical philosophical example, one might start to wonder what ‘knowledge’ is. That is, what would the world have to be like for it to be true that I know that Tony Blair is Prime...
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How FMRI works
Health, Sports & Psychology

How FMRI works

...technique for measuring brain activity, but how does it work?...This content is associated with The Open University's Health Science courses and qualifications. What is FMRI? [Brain image produced by FMRI [Image: FMRIB Centre]] Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or FMRI, works by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural...
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To the Moon and beyond
Science, Maths & Technology

To the Moon and beyond

...techniques. From these studies, it emerged that lunar geology could be described in terms of two major rocks types: the anorthosites (named after rocks rich in a calcium-rich mineral called anorthite) that constitute the lighter areas (called Highlands) on the Moon’s surface as viewed in the night sky; and the mare basalts (named after rocks formed mainly of iron-rich...
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How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri
Health, Sports & Psychology

How yoga conquered Britain: the feminist legacy of Yogini Sunita and Kailash Puri

...technique was the “slipped second” during which one calls to mind anxieties, before releasing them completely for “just one second”. Explaining to listeners of BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour in 1961, Sunita described this practice as mental relaxation which allows one to engage with life’s demands more efficiently. In fact, Sunita claimed that it was equivalent to...
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The history of surfing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The history of surfing

...techniques for shaping the boards changed this, and nowadays boards are made with hand-shaped polyurethane blanks covered with fibreglass and resin. This made them lighter, but reshaping the boards enabled them to be smaller as well, and these new, smaller boards extended surfing’s reach from the Pacific right across the world. According to local Brighton surfer, Steve...
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