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Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...sources in amongst the constituent rRNA and protein molecles. Many antibiotics work by interferring with normal ribosomal functions, preventing accurate protein synthesis. The antibiotics seen as the light sources are spectinomycin, streptomycin and paromomycin. On May 26, 2016, researchers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center reported the first case of...
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Valentine's Day in 1840s Scotland
History & The Arts

Valentine's Day in 1840s Scotland

...Source: Wellcome Collection; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) Most of the performers here are staff of the institution; Mrs Browne, wife of the Superintendent, regularly contributed piano duets with Mrs Shaw, a local piano teacher and organist. Nevertheless, we might imagine patients joining in well-known songs and choruses. The concert tradition continued...
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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...opening, in which the soldier is carried onto the roof to look out over the town; the couple praying in the Duomo; the fact that it was agreed that he would not drink or see his friends in America; the loneliness of Luz’s life in Pordenone. I have omitted these events or descriptions because it could be argued that they are not crucial to the main narrative incidents....
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...opening - One important way of approaching the novel as a genre is to think about what expectations this kind of text would have aroused in its first readers. This is a way of reminding us of the gap between then and now, of the fact that readers of the original novel had certain assumptions, which would have been different from our own. It is a way of remembering the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXC002 Beginners Chinese 2: 开始吧 kāishĭ ba! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...Have you always wanted to speak Mandarin Chinese? Have you even started learning a few basic words and expressions? If so, this follow-up to Getting started with...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...source as evidence. First, we must read each text as a literary work looking at its internal dynamics: factors such as language, narrative voice and characterisation come in here – as does the concept of focalisation: what does the author dwell on in his or her narrative and what does he or she leave out? The next step is to compare the features of the text with other...
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Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...Open University course E229 Listening to young children: critical reflections...Listening to young children: supporting transition: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: discuss how listening to children as they prepare for and experience transition can help them to make meaning of their new situation outline the discontinuities that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...Open University course K220 Death, Dying and Bereavement. Alternatively, you can explore the related OpenLearn course, An introduction to death, dying and grief...Death and medicine: Postponement and promise: Learning outcomes - After completing this course, you should be able to: evaluate end-of-life care approaches in the UK and challenges to care delivery evaluate the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr