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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...Open University. This article is based on research conducted in 2012, the year she graduated from The Open University with her Doctorate in Geography. Dr Wadsley, along with Dr Duika Burges Watson (Newcastle University, formerly Durham) were joint-recipients of the RGS-IBG Neville Shulman Challenge Award for 'Hugging the Coast: an exploration by sea-kayak of liminal...
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Video 15 mins
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year

...15 days in total. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. In addition to those free resources, you may also wish to have look at our newly launched short course in Chinese business culture, starting on 27th February 2021. Happy Niu/New Year! Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
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Article 5 mins
AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture
Science, Maths & Technology

AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture

...resource-constrained devices. A commercial farm from Wales, a farmer from the Scottish Highlands, and a backyard gardener in England can track their plant growth via images. Everyone gets their own ML model to deduce leaf diseases from images and then redirects the learned parameters to the central server. The server is then in charge of detecting the disease every time a...
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City

...open city’ that accepts and works with complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. While John Tomaney finds this a learned and literate book rich in provocative metaphors and examples, the implications of today’s political and economic context, including the issue of inequality, upon its ethics of the city are underexplored...[Denver from the sky] The question of how we...
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The Future For Finance
Society, Politics & Law

The Future For Finance

...Open University Business School’s Centre for Accounting... Reform in the Financial Services Industry This podcast was recorded just after the Queen’s Speech on May 25th 2010, which set out the Government’s policy agenda for the forthcoming parliamentary session following the General Election on May 6th 2010. The Financial Services Industry: Reform and Reinforcement...
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Exploring Greek vases
History & The Arts

Exploring Greek vases

...into Greek civilisation by observing the designs on the ceramics that have been acquired by these museums. The Open University’s Jessica Hughes analyses their religious mythology and Lucilla Burns discusses presentation at the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge... Encountering a Greek Vase Jessica Hughes from The Open University examines the history of a Greek vase....
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