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Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...community. Systems practice in the context of this unit refers to the practice of Systems within whatever profession or calling you follow. You can be a systemic medical practitioner, a systemic wood turner, a systemic technician or a systemic manager by applying systems thinking, insights and approaches to the complexity that you encounter in any of these or other...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...community, attempting to define the incubation period of the disease. Josiah Clark Nott, a Connecticut native, settled in Alabama, had opportunity to study yellow fever at close hand in Alabama. In one epidemic affecting Mobile, he lost four of his children, even though he had moved them to the country, outside of the stricken city. His observations on epidemic spread led...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...community, and I think those sorts of films, beyond traditional broadcast, are just as important in the environmental … let’s call it, television bit. Environmental programmes: Getting commissioned? No, I think the real challenge was that in television programming, so above the level of commissioning, for many, many, many years the E word, the environment word, was...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...community, and I think those sorts of films, beyond traditional broadcast, are just as important in the environmental … let’s call it, television bit. Environmental programmes: Getting commissioned No, I think the real challenge was that in television programming, so above the level of commissioning, for many, many, many years the ‘E word’, the environment word,...
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Measure the Pulfrich Effect
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Pulfrich Effect

...communicate with your brain. Why not have a go?...The Pulfrich pendulum: an experimental investigation Introduction In this experiment you will be investigating a phenomenon known as the Pulfrich pendulum effect. As you might guess, it involves a swinging pendulum, and was first described in 1922 by a German physicist called Carl Pulfrich. This is a very simple effect to...
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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...Communities Secretary John Denham, had no contingency plans in place should firefighters go out on strike. Caroline Spelman, his shadow on the Conservative benches, sounded a warning as clear as any fire alarm: Britain faces a "winter of discontent". 2010 Writing in City AM, DLA Piper LLA's David Bradley was wise enough to know that winters of discontent are often upon...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...communities. Yet, there is another geography, that geography of external relations on which identities, including the identities of places, depend. How do we bring that into our attitude to, and our politics of, place? This tendency to inward-lookingness becomes even clearer when we turn to the second reservation about the characterisation of London as multicultural...
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The weakness of European Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The weakness of European Wales

...community, 52.5 per cent of Welsh voters chose the former. One factor of many certainly, but a factor nonetheless. A better understanding of Brexit ‘The Weakness of European Wales’ was first published in the magazine PLANET: The Welsh Internationalist, volume 225. Planet can be contacted on Twitter as @Planet_TWI , or on Facebook at Planetmagazine.CylchgrawnPlanet A...
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