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Beginners’ Chinese
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese

...Open University course: L197: Beginners’ Chinese You can also download transcripts for all the tracks... Beginners' Chinese A short introduction to this album. Beginners Chinese: Pronunciation and tone Mandarin Chinese speech sounds and tones. Learn how to pronounce Chinese vowels, consonants and the four tones. Beginners Chinese: Numbers from zero to ten Learn to count...
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Audio 43 mins
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...Open University course S827 Concept to clinic...Drug development process: combating pain: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate the intrinsic difficulties associated with developing a drug molecule from conception into a medicine suitable for clinical use appreciate how molecular modelling can be used in the drug discovery...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...Open University course S385 Cosmology and the distant Universe. ...Unsolved problems in cosmology: Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Unsolved problems in cosmology. If you have read any other books or articles about cosmology, or seen TV programmes on the subject, you will probably be aware that cosmological theory has been very successful in explaining a wide...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Text Reading entitled ‘Learning lives and biographies’: Tedder, M. and Biesta, G. (2011) ‘Adult learning lives and biographies’ in Safford, K., Stacey, M. and Hancock, R. (eds) Small-scale Research in Primary Schools: A Reader for Learning and Professional Development, London, Routledge in association...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...Open University course K828 Researching and evaluating practice...Understanding service improvement in healthcare: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define ‘service’ in the context of healthcare understand what is meant by ‘service improvement’ in healthcare settings monitor when progress is being made towards service...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...Open University’s Religious Studies courses and qualifications....Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture: Introduction - People have very different ideas about what counts as religion or spirituality. Some might even think of other people’s religions as superstition. The following questions would make perfect sense to people in some religions but seem...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...source of pollution was Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon. The city’s two million inhabitants and 500,000 vehicles add to the pollution released by thermoelectric plants to produce a plume that moves into surrounding areas through wind patterns. The researchers used a ground station to measure the concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere and the air’s vertical...
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Article 5 mins
Physical vapour deposition (PVD)
Science, Maths & Technology

Physical vapour deposition (PVD)

...source almost surrounds the workpiece, enables coatings to be deposited in an almost non-directional manner. All processes operate under vacuum; ion plating and sputtering at 0.1–1.0 Pa and vacuum evaporation at 10-5–1.0 Pa. Coverage of workpiece is usually improved as the pressure is increased. Cycle times depend on unit type (batch, load-lock or continuous),...
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Article 10 mins