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Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...creative, political step to move the next one on. And right now this negotiation here in Bonne, preparing for Paris, is dancing around those issues but behind the scenes I see a lot of convergence about the need to be practical, the need to be relatively pragmatic in moving forward and I think that understanding, should it persist to the end of Paris will be what...
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...Writing, as the name suggests, in the Lancet medical journal, a pair of dermatologists reported the case of a patient whose dog constantly sniffed at a mole on her leg, on one occasion even trying to bite it off. The woman sought medical advice. Tests showed it was a malignant melanoma, almost two millimetres thick. It was removed, and she remained well. The second Lancet...
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...write about projects, we have to define what they are and describe how they arise. This course will concentrate on describing what a project is, and how it can arise as a part of a planning process, as a response to a changing environment, as a business opportunity, as a problem or as a newly identified requirement. Projects often appear to be mysterious: it can be...
Forensic psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Images Figure 1 © The Open University/iStockphoto.com/Rich Legg Figure 3 © The...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...writing, mathematical ability, logic and analysis. The right hemisphere dominates for perception, spatial ability, musical and artistic abilities, imagery and dreaming. The right hemisphere also seems to be more emotional and negative compared to the positive and rational left hemisphere. Evidence to support the proposal that one hemisphere may dominate the other for a...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...writing that such money is a gift. Without this the lender may assume the money is a loan and include it in the affordability testing (with the risk that this will end up cutting the size of the mortgage they will advance to you). Over time you may move on to a new home (and therefore a new mortgage). Keeping down the LTV will then become easier. This is because the...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...writing report about these matters, it would be good statistical practice to include the counts of cases and deaths somewhere, even if not in the same table as that including the rates. Do you agree that Table 2.7 conforms to all of the four guidelines given at the beginning of this section? After you have produced a table for yourself, it is always a good idea to check...
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...writing to their eligibility. No words are spoken at the moment captured in the photograph, and we might imagine verbal exchanges to be brief, structured and predictable. The encounter shown in Figure 5 is an act of regulation. In Figure 6, there is still little difficulty in distinguishing between the official and the client, but the highly formalised style, attire and...