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How are drones keeping track of songbirds?
Nature & Environment

How are drones keeping track of songbirds?

...work.” Wilson and his colleagues hope that automated bird surveying with UAVs will eventually be used as an additional technique to augment the work of well-trained field surveyors. “Surveying birds by ear is an impressive skill that encourages ornithologists to spend time out in the field getting to know their study species and their habitats,” says Wilson. “We...
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...working the context of a learning brief. They are usually, although not exclusively, working within the Creative Commons community. These trusted repositories include blogs from the LSE and Oxford, SciDevNet, Wellcome Trust's Mosaic website, Languages On The Move, GlobalVoice and The Conversation. The OpenLearn editorial team will review any item selected for publication...
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Understanding Statements of participation
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Understanding Statements of participation

...work through the course you can view your progress using the tracking bar. You can also see which sections you have completed when a tick appears next to the section heading. The tracking bar will reach 100% when you have viewed all of the pages of the course and you have completed any quizzes and assessments, if they are available on that course. After completing the...
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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...worked in recruitment, compensation, and organization structuring for the civilian workforce of the US Army before moving to a business career in Human Resources, Issue Management and Corporate Public Affairs with the Adolph Coors Company and then Arizona Public Service. Moving east to Washington DC as a Senior Systems Scientist with Allen Corp, later called CAE Link, he...
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Speak in colours!
Languages

Speak in colours!

...work out the meaning. Amusez-vous bien! White [Image of snow with French idioms concerning the colour white written across the image] Un marriage blanc- (lit. a white marriage), a sham marriage/ a marriage of convenience Montrer patte blanche- (lit. to show a white paw), to show one’s credentials De but en blanc- (lit. from the target in white), point blank Red [Image...
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Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...work together. It is important to be aware of how studying the ancient world is always, at heart, an interdisciplinary endeavour, a fact which the case study in this free course demonstrates particularly well. You will explore the ancient Library of Alexandria, a great institution of learning and scholarship founded by the Ptolemaic rulers of Alexandria in the 3rd century...
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Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...work. It would allow information sharing in the public interest. Simple regulation would also ensure that if a practitioner was unfit to carry out their healthcare duties they can be prevented from doing so, or concerns be raised. This would necessitate a register of healthcare practitioners. Yet these conditions mirror closely what already happens. The General Medical...
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Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?

...work in the retail and tourism sectors but now find themselves with either no jobs and income, or in the precarious position of having to work outside of the home. As university accommodation was shutting down everywhere some also lost access to housing. All these problems haunt their lives as students. Government regulations around minimum face-to-face attendance can no...
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