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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...researchers have so far been unable to come up with single convincing explanation for it. To date, scientific research has focussed on testing the following four central hypotheses to explain the LDG: (1) Habitat heterogeneity may control the diversity gradients in an area by influencing the composition of different communities (2) In general, the species richness of a...
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Article 20 mins
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...researching - Both an external and internal marketing orientation requires research and insight into the behaviours, attitudes, values and norms of ‘customers’. Research is required to establish the barriers, costs, rewards and benefits as perceived by employees when changing their behaviour. As with external customers, this will inform the development of a ‘value...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...research in this field often looks at the structures and the physical processes going on within the brain. So this approach is often referred to as being based on a ‘bio-medical’ model of mental health...Making sense of mental health problems: 2.1 Diagnostic handbooks - Figure 3 Maggie from the interactive ‘A Support Net’ which is associated with this OpenLearn...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...research on the subject that veiling is a rich and nuanced phenomenon, a language that communicates social and cultural messages, a practice that has been present in tangible form since ancient times, a symbol ideologically fundamental to the Christian, and particularly the Catholic, vision of womanhood and piety, and a vehicle for resistance in Islamic societies, and is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...researchers found that machines could translate repetitive texts using pre-translated sentences, a method called example-based translation. This approach had its first success translating weather forecasts between English and French in Canada, revitalising interest and funding in the 1980s. By the 90s, the proliferation of texts on the world wide web and the computational...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Becoming a superhero: what are the limits of human performance?

...research by Joyner (1991) found that from a physiological basis there is still more scope for further physical improvements, which can translate into significant improvements in, for example, running times. In the same way that Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile in 1954, it is possible that the athletes of today may be on the verge of attaining the elusive sub 2 hour...
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Article 15 mins
Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally
History & The Arts

Rod Stewart was a 1970s ally

...research 19th-century British literature for a living. But I have also spent time listening to and thinking about rock ‘n’ roll lyrics. Language is at the crux of both these projects, and it is a short step from one to the other. Great poems, like great lyrics, work in strikingly diverse ways. But at some level both almost invariably challenge set assumptions and...
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The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup
Science, Maths & Technology

The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup

...research has shown that it is often vital to making decisions. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychologist Gary Klein suggest that intuitive expertise can only develop in environments in which there are stable relationships between identifiable cues and events. Cues in football could be relative team rankings and events could be wins or losses. Cues in civil...
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