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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...systems: The first is a reflective system, whereby what we do is a result of goals that reflect our values and where we’re aware of what we’re doing. The other system, which actually accounts for much more of our behaviour, is an automatic system, whereby we’re often not aware of the impulses that have generated our behaviour. There is an increasing recognition that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...systems - that is also present in non-mammals such as lizards. Hedgehogs eat earthworms, slugs, eggs and frogs, in addition to insects. They, of course, are considerably larger than shrews and cannot always hide in undergrowth when foraging, so their niche is not quite the same as that of shrews. DA refers to hedgehogs 'fossicking' around the garden [p. 53] - a delightful...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...system that is cancelled because it does not work properly). There are many reasons why individuals and organisations are tempted to concentrate on enterprises and innovations that have succeeded rather than those that have failed. For example, it is generally much easier to gather evidence about an organisation or venture that is still operating...First steps in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...system. It is possible to define the density at a given point in any system by taking a small volume element around that point and evaluating the ratio of mass to volume for that volume element. Contrast with number density. * density parameter One of the fractional densities defined by: matter density, normal cap omega sub m of t equals rho sub m of t solidus rho sub c...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...the payment is made just before the end of the month) write down the recurrence system for bn . (iii) Find the closed form for bn and use it to calculate the number of payments that will be needed to pay off the loan. Example 2 - from an Open University Level 2 psychology course Discuss the models of memory and consider their usefulness in real life situations. Discussion To answer Example 1 successfully requires ......
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...system which he is no more a part of than the least of his subjects. If he will let a weary old man or a delicate woman stand indefinitely before him, he is no more to blame for that than for speaking English with a trace of German in his th sounds; he did not invent his origins or his traditions. Personally, having had it out with life, he is as amiable and as...
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Article 5 mins
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...system that we pioneered on that, being able to put the animal in the context of the environment was very important. And actually seeing polar bears in their natural surroundings and using almost the metaphor of ‘the melt’ and the spring coming as a kind of bigger metaphor for change, which is something we did in the Ice Worlds show. I think a really powerful piece of...
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Video 30 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...system to record evidence as part of your apprenticeship Use webchat and email to communicate Use presentation software to present an assignment Know how to submit writing material like assignments electronically, for you tutor to mark and provide feedback Activity 3 Timing: Duration 20 mins Read this brief description of a new apprentice, Ronald Ronald has not studied in...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs