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Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...system for decimals, can you use your rounding skills to estimate calculations using decimals? This skill would be needed in everyday life to approximate the cost of your shopping. Example: Approximations with decimals Give approximate answers to these. Round each decimal number to the nearest whole number before you calculate. 2.7 + 9.1 9.6 cm – 2.3 cm 2.8 g × 2.6 g...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...system with wires and land and all these kind of things is still huge. RH: But if you’re going to build it on a local village basis or a regional basis or a micro-grid basis – MR: I’m sorry, the numbers just don’t support that, Roger. It really is clear. For a start … I mean I’m all for solar, I love solar, and particularly in sunny countries, fine, let’s do...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...systems of psychology. From the Oedipus complex to dream analysis and repression, Freudian concepts have had a profound impact on literature. By introducing the concept of the unconscious mind, Freud radically transformed writer’s understanding of their craft, inspiring the creation of psychologically complex and layered characters. Freud’s influence became...
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Article 45 mins
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...system was maintained by laws which strongly restrained Catholics from owning property, entering professions and fully engaging in political life, creating a society with extreme religious and political tensions. The elegant ornaments of this regime were a proudly Irish, if exclusively Protestant, parliament, an elegant Georgian cityscape in Dublin and a countryside...
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Article 45 mins
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...system since its publication. For practitioners too, Wicca had reached a stable position as it entered the twenty-first century. The broader (Neo)Pagan movement it had instigated has a strong presence in the US and Northern Europe; Wicca gained legal protection as a religion in the US in 1986, and continues to campaign for legal recognition in the UK. Estimates put the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...system or the wider universe. [Described image] Figure 3 Macroscopic perspective In a way, studying language is really no different to this. Learning to master a language requires skills and knowledge that relate to the big picture, as well as the smallest details. Imagine a camera lens – you need to be able to ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ to look at things in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...systems, bushes, bridge bearings NBR nitrile (acrylonitrile- butadiene copolymer) Special-purpose rubbers of density 1.0 Mg m−3 and moderate mechanical properties. Poor cold resistance. Excellent resistance to swelling in hydrocarbons and alcohols. The greatest oil and alcohol resistance occurs in rubbers with a high acrylonitrile content. Fuel lines and linings SBR...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...systems that sit around athletes. The third set of factors are the individual factors. So these are much more the personality-based factors for that individual athlete, such as perfectionism, or athletic identity, or motivation. So as you go through the session, you'll learn about those different factors and how they can put an athlete at risk from burnout. You're also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs