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Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...research to come up with probabilities. Here's something from a medical piece of research. 2619 men were found to have certain risk factors to do with coronary heart disease. Of those men, at the end of the 8-year study, 246 of them had suffered with heart disease. So if the total possible men that could have coronary heart disease with a risk factor is 2619 but only 246...
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...research, and people can see that we’re just ordinary physicists, mathematicians, chemists, geologists – RH: You’re a mathematician? TE: I’m a physicist. So my background is originally in particle physics. So I think that would help. I think also just being really open and transparent and saying, ‘Well look, we listened to this criticism. We have these...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...researches of antiquaries, and the Shakespeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries celebrated in churches and by churchmen, and the final detachment from the church, and the completion of secular plays, from Ferrex and Porrex, and Gammer Gurton's Needle, down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakespeare...
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...research on local food markets in the West Highlands has found that the local food economy, is almost entirely dependent on the consumption of local food by tourists. The re-emergence and recognition of the importance of local food, and local food economy, is related to global tourism and marketing (Macintyre, 2005). What is interesting about this example of the West...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...research methods and pre-sessional English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...researched things out of Life on Earth and present stuff from that. And then I got involved in birdwatching, a member of the YOC… so the Young Ornithologists Club and then also the XYZ Club, which was Exceptional Young Zoologists, which was an offshoot from the Zoological Society of London, because I lived in Greater London, so I’d get free tickets to go to Whipsnade...