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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...managed, and the art that might be produced in response to the Grand Tour – from paintings to sculptures, landscape gardens to interior decorations – was one way of doing so...Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour: 2.1 The Grand Tour portrait: people - Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787) was the most successful and fashionable painter of eighteenth-century Grand Tour...
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...managed to grab the scorpion and run off with it…and off he goes. Adults are giving pups opportunities to handle live prey, so does that make the pups learn faster than they would otherwise? So in order to test this, I ran an experiment where I randomly allocated pups to three different treatments. One treatment, the pups got additional opportunities to handle live...
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...manage. Treatment with leptin leads to normalization of both appetite and body weight. However, the administration of leptin turns out to be very much less effective in the great majority of morbidly obese individuals. They typically already have very high leptin levels but have lost the normal physiological and behavioural responses to the hormone. Thus leptin has not,...
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...manages to imply that it is this character’s very meanness that caused his own misery. Next, we get two versions of the fireplace tiles. One is what is actually there and the other is what is being imagined by Scrooge. But look at what happens for the reader. Dickens leads us to also imagine the tiles ‘blank at first’ and then with the head of his dead business...
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our start-of-course survey. Once...
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our start-of-course survey. Once...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of participation – which also displays your badge. This course has been produced as part of the Department for Education’s Flexible Learning Fund, the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales and with the kind support of Dangoor...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...managing a mentally disordered individual, through their own, or that individual's, inability to get employment. But there is little evidence yet from these sources that such rationales for committal figured any more prominently than they had done in previous times (Adair et al., 1998; Walton, 1981, 1985; Wright, 1998). Similarly, detailed work on the geographical origins...