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Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...systems, Making health care affordable to all And we can do this not just because we care for them, because we also care for those to come. Read more about aging in the June 2011 issue of Finance and Development, a publication of the International Monetary Fund. www.imf.org/fandd Produced by Babar Ahmed for The International Monetary Fund Original music composed by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...think of a historian? Figure 1 shows Asa Briggs (1921–2016), an influential and successful historian, a Cambridge and London University graduate, former soldier, codebreaker at Bletchley Park and the third Chancellor of The Open University (1978–1994). Asa probably fits many people’s ideas of how a friendly historian might look. These days historians are more...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...system and proposing how it serves to provide security to individuals while also encouraging them to be active in the world. Research based on this theory is revealing the significance of the early years of life in the formation of attachments that go on to be central throughout life. This free course gives an introduction to this exciting area of contemporary study. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...Think about these issues in relation to another place or other places. What is being represented/promoted? Who gains and who loses? 3. The main points to grasp from this programme are: that ‘image and identity’ are central to our geographical imagination; that images and identities are socially constructed and are not neutral or objective: how we define a place...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...thinking about waves you may first think of ocean waves. These are a great example of a wave as they are regular, repeating movements of water and a wave may be defined as a periodic, or regularly repeating, disturbance that transports energy from one place to another. In this short course you will discover the difference between transverse and longitudinal waves and gain...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
"V" Process (Vacuum sealed moulding process)
Science, Maths & Technology

"V" Process (Vacuum sealed moulding process)

...systems should allow the cavity to be filled rapidly. Vents and risers must be located in such a way that the unfilled portion of the casting cavity is at atmospheric pressure, to allow the gases formed in the initial stages to escape to atmosphere. Knock-out is easy, since removal of the vacuum allows the sand to flow out of the box. When casting cast iron, or other...
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Rotary Forging, General Forging Machine (GFM) and Swaging
Science, Maths & Technology

Rotary Forging, General Forging Machine (GFM) and Swaging

...system contains the workpiece on all sides, which eliminates the tensile stresses developed in conventional hot forging. The high rate of working leads to heat generation to compensate for radiation losses, so that multiple passes can be used to produce a forging in a single heat. This leads to substantial energy and labour savings compared with conventional forging....
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Revolutions of the Sixties
History & The Arts

Revolutions of the Sixties

...system of racial segregation across the southern states of the USA, and question how successful this struggle for racial equality was. The four OpenLearn courses are adapted extracts from the Open University course A113 Revolutions. Use of racial language and terms Some of these courses deal with topics involving racial issues, such as the Civil Rights Movement in the...
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Article 10 mins