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Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...education/teachers/Resources/aflchem/resources/71/71%20resources/71-4%20Plenty%20of%20room.pdf (Accessed 20 September 2018). Hsu, J. (2012) ‘Secret codes ready to take quantum leap in space’, NBC News, 29 February [Online]. Available at www.nbcnews.com/id/46581073/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/secret-codes-ready-take-quantum-leap-space/#.WJnK-oXXI_Q (Accessed...
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...education project (HiWEP, 2011) that made computers available in deprived towns by embedding computers in public walls – and showed that children could learn to use them effectively without instruction. Another is Rwandan Henri Nyakarundi’s Mobile Solar Kiosk (MSK), providing low-cost phone charging to users without ready access to electricity supplies. (ARED, 2014)....
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...education (i.e. sources of science where you are not formally being taught). Sources could include, for example, television programmes, news websites, blogs, books, magazines, newspapers, social media, museums and science centres. In the light of your experiences, write a short summary (no more than 200 words) that addresses the following questions. Briefly, what is the...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...Education Australia. Knight, F.H. (2012) Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York (republication of the Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1921 edition). Kotler, P., Wong, V., Saunders, J. and Armstrong, G. (2005) Principles of Marketing, 4th European Edition, Prentice Hall, London. Millman, T. and Lucas, M. (1998) ‘Observations on the...
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...de Groot, R. S. and Opdam, P. (2014) ‘Ecosystem services as a contested concept: a synthesis of critique and counter-arguments’, Conservation Letters, 17 February [Online]. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12091 (Accessed 17 July 2014). Senge, P. M., Smith, B., Kruschwitz, N., Laur, J. and Schley, S. (2008) The Necessary Revolution, New York, NY, Doubleday....
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...de-excited by collision with another particle before a photon can be emitted spontaneously. Such low densities cannot be achieved on Earth which is why these lines are not observed in the laboratory. When they are observed astronomically, we can be sure that they have been produced in a region of extremely low density. They are prominent in the spectra of active galaxies...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 48 hours of study time. It is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open University’s OpenLearn website and do...
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
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COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...de Larrea, Marta Molina, Francisco Rodríguez-Cabrera, Mariano Martín, Paloma Merino-Amador, Jose León Paniagua, Juan F Muñoz-Montalvo, Faustino Blanco, Raquel Yotti, on behalf of the ENE-COVID Study Group* The Lancet 2020, 366: 535-544. Humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland. Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Ph.D., Gudmundur L. Norddahl, Ph.D., Pall Melsted, Ph.D.,...