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iSpot: Your place to share nature
Nature & Environment

iSpot: Your place to share nature

...system motivates and rewards, awarding badges for contributions. Personalise and Learn: participate in citizen science challenges; create, develop and filter your own learning journey through projects, quizzes, online ID keys and courses. [iSpot ipad and materials collage] As a curator of biodiversity species data, the impact of iSpot is extensive; from being essential to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...systems of linear and non-linear equations and mathematical modelling; linear and integer programming; and non-linear optimization for unconstrained and constrained minimisation problems. Linear programming – the basic ideas consists of material from M373 Unit II.1, Linear programming – the basic ideas, and has four sections in total. You should set aside about three...
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...