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What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...family, there are nodules (Figure 5), inside which live nitrogen-fixing bacteria of the rhizobia group. These bacteria fix about 108 tonnes of nitrogen per year worldwide, which is approximately 60% of all nitrogen fixed. This is a symbiotic relationship, with the bacteria providing the plant with nitrogen compounds, and the plant supplying nutrients to the bacteria....
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...family had an icon’ (1908, vol. 2, p. 312)...Week 1: Introducing the Byzantine icon: 4 The place of the icon in the development of art history - If [Vasari] really knew the nature of the Greek style of which he speaks, he would deal with it differently in what he says. He compares it with Giotto, but what Giotto did is simple in comparison, because the Greek style is...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...trees that you’re seeing in front of you, the aspens, they grow. That’s actually one plant, right, and they grow underground. The largest aspen grove is, I think, one hundred and six miles, square miles, and it just kind of spreads out and the shoots go down and they run across, and they shoot up in different locations. There’s no real start to the plant, there’s...
Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...family go into that. Again, it’s just exposing that a bit. Lowering the lifetime costs of developing OER. Of course that can be important by sharing these things. That’s one of the things that online learning does force us about, things like UK HE can be more cost effective. But collaborating, collaborating is not just for other universities. Public commercial...
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...family and friends; in general, you can do that once or twice, but after that, especially if you’re working with bigger budgets, film-makers tend to use more conventional industry-focused methods. Outside the Hollywood studio system, this usually means putting together funding from a mix of different industry sources, including the distributors and sales agents you met...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...family TY of open sets defined in this way comprises a topology on Y. Answer We check (T1)–(T3). Since (T1)–(T3) are satisfied, TY is a topology on Y. So we have a bijection F:I(X) → Y between the topological spaces (I(X),Tf) and (Y,TY). Furthermore, from the definitions of open sets in Tf and TY, we can deduce immediately that for each U TY, F−1(U) Tf and for...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...family. You might have been able to add yet more detail (for example, mentioning the types of scale in the first track); you may even have recognised the interval between the two notes in the second track as a minor seventh (or at least, if you did not recognise the interval you should know that, with time, you could work it out). Naturally, the use of musical terminology...
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...families of chemical compounds? Glucose is a covalent compound and sodium chloride is an ionic compound. You meet glucose in solution in everyday life as it is the sugar in many sweet drinks (and is closely related to ordinary table sugar). You are certainly familiar with sodium chloride as it is the table salt used in kitchens. The formulas of both compounds tell you...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs