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Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...techniques the Babylonians used for problem-solving and teaching. The Babylonian problem-solving skills have been described as remarkable and scribes of the time received a training far in advance of anything available in medieval Christian Europe 3000 years later...This free course looks at Babylonian mathematics. You will learn how a series of discoveries has enabled...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...technique. Before I ask you to read it in its entirety I’d like you to spend some time looking closely at the first few pages of the novel. Activity 1 First, read from the beginning of the novel to the end of the second paragraph on p. 4 (which ends ‘he wish he was back in bed’) and then think about the following questions: What type of narrative perspective is used...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...techniques, of varying degrees of sophistication, available to management for estimating fixed and variable costs, but you should always bear in mind that greater and greater levels of accuracy are usually more expensive to attain. Such levels of accuracy may also take longer to achieve because of the amount of information that has to be processed. Organisations must...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...technique and exercise. Developing a research question is a cycle of refining, considering and re-stating. You will have to go round a few times until you settle on something you’re happy with. One tool you can use to develop a draft research question is ‘ten words’. EXERCISE: Hold in your mind the thing that you are interested in and, without thinking too much...
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Article 5 mins
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...techniques and practical skills required to understand the world of production, employment, spending and borrowing, and the effects of government policy and technical innovation. Our economics degree programmes and modules are regularly updated to reflect the latest research and events. The OU Economics Seminar Series promotes high-quality research bringing together...
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Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?
Nature & Environment

Why would you want to make a bee wear a backpack?

...techniques such as the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. What we need to do Three major challenges need to be overcome for tracking devices to become truly useful: their weight, range, and how long their power source lasts. We’re aiming to reduce the transmitter weight by harvesting the energy the bee generates while flying. This will allow us to do away with the...
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How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?

...techniques are being used by farmers to grow the plant in cold regions. It will be difficult to address the problem, according to Al-Maroni. “We cannot talk now about an actual strategy to limit the cultivation of khat, despite its importance, as this requires developing alternative plans and accompanying procedures, and there are no capabilities nor funding for that."...
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Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?

...technique called Q methodology to study the different discursive frames that people adopt when they think about what it means to be an authentic and/or sincere person. This was my first adventure into social psychological research and I was interested in studying the forms of language and symbolism through which people construct their realities. The question, in other...
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Article 5 mins