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Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?

...systems. My PhD, as part of the International Development research in the Astrobiology department of The Open University, involves investigating the potentials and challenges of using innovations in space technologies for sustainable development. Currently, in my first year, what I love most about this research topic is how it combines science, technology, engineering and...
Introduction to the calculus of variations
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to the calculus of variations

...systems. Introduction to the calculus of variations consists of material from MS327 Unit 5, Introduction to the calculus of variations, and has five sections in total. You should set aside about three to four hours to study each of the sections; the whole extract should take about 16 hours to study. The extract is a small part (around 8%) of a large course that is studied...
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...system and digestion (Fancourt, 2017, p. 34). The arts have also been used to reduce pain, both short-term and chronic. Numerous studies, for example, have experimented with using music to improve recovery after surgical procedures, which reduced levels of pain and anxiety, requiring lower levels of medication (Hole et al., 2015). The arts are perhaps most closely...
Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...systems and processes and the evidence that underpins practice. This makes them an accountable professional, being able to justify their actions/omissions. It also allows them to understand ‘why’ things happen the way they do e.g., what changes in the body if someone has diabetes, not simply knowing that the patient has diabetes. They deliver the essential components...
Sea level rise in Bangladesh
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Bangladesh

...system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663885/Future_of_the_sea_-_sea_level_rise.pdf Accessed 25th January 2020 Humphreys, D. (2019) ‘Climate Change: an introduction to a heated debate’, Chapter 1, in Jehlicka, P. and D. Humphreys, D. (Eds) Environmental Policy in an International Context, Milton Keynes, The Open University IDMC, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre...
Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...thinking is exactly the way that we today distinguish useful treatments from useless or positively harmful ones. [MUSIC PLAYING] INTERVIEWER The world’s first controlled clinical trial demonstrated that one of the treatments had won hands down. Within a week, the sailors who had eaten the oranges and the lemons were fit for duty and were nursing the others back to...
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Dyddiadur Barwnes am Oes Newydd
Society, Politics & Law

Dyddiadur Barwnes am Oes Newydd

...system ble byddai’r safle cyntaf yn cael ei ddal gan fenyw, yr ail safle yn agored, ac yna bob yn ail yn yr un modd. Byddai'r system bleidleisio o ethol un enillydd drwy bleidleisio ffafriol yn cael ei defnyddio i bennu safle ar y rhestr. Byddai'r ymgeisydd ar frig y rhestr yn cael ei enwebu gan arweinydd y blaid i Dŷ'r Arglwyddi. Byddai'r enwau eraill yn cael eu...
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...systems in that it dominates the international educational marketplace, academic databases and as a medium for instruction. Altbach states that “English is supplanting such languages as French, German and Spanish as the international medium of scholarship. These languages are in no danger of disappearing in higher education, but their world role has shrunk” (Altbach,...