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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...projects at the OU throughout the 1980s. In 1990/91 EERU was awarded a £500,000 commission by what was the DTI at the time (Department of Trade & Industry) to develop a Renewable Energy Teaching Pack for Tertiary Education to transform and expand education about Renewable Energy in the UK. We believe that this was the first renewable energy course to cover all...
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Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks

...words the doubting tone when General de Chastelain asks: are these all the weapons held by the UDA/UFF? No organisation decommissioned its entire arsenal. There are still guns - just in case. Download the archive (PDF, 37MB)[Image link to download of full archive in a PDF file] Acknowledgements With thanks to project photographer Marie Therese Hurson, Stills Photographic....
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Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices

...UUP. I remember asking my father, "Why?" With the wisdom of his 90 years, he replied, "Trimble was like the prophets of old... not without honour, except in his home country." Sylvia Hermon Download the archive (PDF, 37MB)[Image link to download of full archive in a PDF file] Acknowledgements With thanks to project photographer Marie Therese Hurson, Stills Photographic....
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...project. Ultimately, literary fictions are not exactly comparable to public monuments, even though their authors may have become celebrated national figures (or been subject to forms of revisionism in assessments of their personal lives). Fictional works can present incommensurable meanings or develop multiple perspectives, and their capacity to sustain different...
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60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...projects like Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout are being used to train Deep Learning algorithms that mimic the responses of citizen scientists. In some cases, AI systems can teach themselves by competing against each other. This “adversarial learning” approach helped the AlphaGo AI system to beat the best human Go player in the World (Lee Sedol). AlphaGo played thousands of...
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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...projects, departments and companies within the engineering sector. Marissa Mayer was the president and CEO of Yahoo! between 2012 and 2017. Mary Teresa Barra has held the CEO position at General Motors Company since 2014 – and although she is the first female to head up a major global automaker, there are undoubtedly others in close pursuit! [Mary T. Barra ] Mary Teresa...
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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...managing the COVID-19 disease.’ It might be relevant to note that the study authors are experts in biology and medicine, such as being affiliated with the Salford Royal Hospital, but modelling an epidemic requires epidemiology expertise. The USA is similar to the UK in the sense that both countries have had a very high total number of deaths from COVID-19, and a number...
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Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...projects, but I have continued to mentor Masters students, which has kept relationships alive through gaps in funding until new projects emerged. Finally, what’s the next step in your research? AstrobiologyOU has brought people together in ways that we couldn’t imagine. I’m confident that the group will thrive and develop collaborations beyond astrobiology....
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