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Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...become torpid, but none is known to do so. One reason might be that substantial changes in body temperature would kill the microbes in the rumen that are essential to digestion. Another possibility is that in ruminants, both storage and membrane lipids contain mostly saturated lipids, which have a higher melting point than unsaturated lipids. Laboratory experiments in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...become full and the printer will need to signal to the computer to stop sending data for a while. The final output from the printer is in one direction only. Figure 2 expands the arrangement of Figure 1 to show a representation of a network where two computers share the services of a printer. Notice how there may now be a need for routing, storing and manipulating data as...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...become I suppose a problem as well so then obviously that’s where the technician job is brilliant because I’ve got the holidays … I thought it would be a good place to start because I was well over-qualified for it so it was just a job that I could go and do, and do well to start with. It was within my confidence range and it suited my lifestyle as well. You’ll...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...become risk averse; in a position of loss we will tend to take risks to avoid or recover losses. You may know people who are good at using this to their advantage; they exert influence by framing choices so that others will choose the option they prefer. Box 1 gives an example of how framing can affect our recall of relevant ‘facts’. Box 1: The effect of question...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...become more interested in small things, but I remember as a boy, I just always wanted to pick everything up, it didn’t matter what it was, but just pick it up and look at it. What I’m working on now Well we’ve got lots of big things at the moment, I’ve got some TV series running. One of them has been quite a hit actually, it was called Tiger about the House, but...
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Video 30 mins
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...become capable of directing their own behaviour in such a way as to satisfy their internalised standards. Furthermore, they monitor their behaviour against those standards, so that they can feel pride on performing gender role-consistent behaviour, even if there is no explicit external praise.In a study which supported this view of gender development (Bussey and Bandura,...
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Article 15 mins
Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...OU are working together to evaluate a new initiative of Walking Programme set currently as 5 Ways cafes in the local Manor Parks (Great Linford, MK) for people living with dementia in Milton Keynes and their informal carers and families, which will be an exemplar of interest to a wide range of UK care homes and volunteer organisations. We aim to measure the engagement and...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...biography of entire mountain ranges. Reading an igneous rock may reveal the secrets of the bowels of a volcano. When you look at enough minerals in enough rocks, you read the letters and the words, the sentences, paragraphs and chapters recorded within them; you can piece together a story and tell the biography of our entire planet. Love science? Go further with the OU...
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