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Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...changes or redrawing a diagram or re-implementation an animation is permitted. Compilations and databases are explicitly protected as intellectual property. When software first became an area of concern in the second half of the 20th century, copyright was used for its protection. In 1991 the European Union issued a directive requiring all member states to use copyright...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...change over time. Indeed, in her reading of Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam (1817) in August 1831 when she criticised him for being ‘too immaterial’, Barrett Browning also admitted that ‘as I read him on, I may reverse this opinion’ (UK RED: 893)...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: 3 Vernon...
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...changing fast and they are becoming much more accurate. But the important point is that it is possible to test for more genes, and more variants of those genes, using very small samples of material. For an adult, a cheek scraping these days provides ample cells for most DNA testing. At this stage, we should distinguish testing from genetic screening. Genetic testing is...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...changed through history? This free course, Art and visual culture: medieval to modern, explores the fundamental issues raised by the study of western art and visual culture over the last millennium. It moves from discussing the role of the artist and the functions of art during the medieval and Renaissance periods to considering the concept and practice of art in the era...
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...changing and shifting in response to the total situation’ (Anderson, 1959). Interactive/transactive Communication is ‘the process by which individuals try to exchange ideas, feelings, symbols, meanings to create commonality’ (Schmidt et al., 2007). Symbolic The words we speak or the gestures we make have no inherent meaning. Rather, they gain their significance from...
International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...climatic divides to the many varied pathways to development chosen by different states and leaders that have led to very different outcomes, and along with it, forms of inequality and division. The current international system, made up of a range of actors including states and international organisations, is only one form of how international relations are organised and...
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...change type, respectively. This OpenLearn science course was updated with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation. This OpenLearn science course was updated with the kind support of Dangoor Education340, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation...This free course, Particle physics, will give you an overview of...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...change. Initially the passive and evocative correlations will dominate. The evocative effects will remain fairly constant. The significance of passive effects decline in importance as the child encounters a wider range of people than just primarily the parents. Clearly active gene-environment effects are likely to become dominant as the child has greater and greater...