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Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...public sector pensions would be index-linked to the CPI rather than the RPI, which caused major complaints from those affected (because inflation as measured by the CPI is usually lower than that measured using the RPI, so pensions will not increase so much in money terms). You might be asking yourself which is the ‘correct’ measure of inflation – RPI, CPI, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...publication has been written by Maggie Coats with contributions from Maggie Boxer and Maureen Haywood and produced by the Student Services Communications Team on behalf of the Open University Centre for Educational Guidance and Student Support. Thanks are due to the following people who read and commented on the draft material: Denise Bates, Margaret Johnson, Liz Manning,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...public circulation. Thus, performances may stray significantly from an ideal without seeming to be out of tune (that is, too sharp or too flat), even to insider experts. Second, instrument makers in some traditions deliberately manipulate octaves and/or unisons to be slightly and pleasingly out of tune. Builders of gamelan ensembles in central Java, the most populous...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...public; and so long as they are only doubted, most men will be persuaded (by arguments something like Vitoria’s) to fight. Their routine habits of law-abidingness, their fear, their patriotism, their moral investment in the state, all favor that course. Or, alternatively, they are so terribly young when the disciplinary system of the state catches them up and sends them...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...Publications...Data analysis: hypothesis testing: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by the B126 Open University course team. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...health of the forest depends on fungus – decaying branches and leaf litter are rich with nutrients, and fungi can ferry these back to living plants. Unearthing the woodwide web NARRATOR Luxurious timber in the luxuriant rain forest. Economics inextricably bound with ecology. Now, biologists are unearthing a new set of relationships fundamental to the forest. Lessons...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...public in the form of consumers) to the diagram. Our earlier spiral diagrams did not say who was doing what. Also, the spiral for the kettle development has no end. Design modifications will continue after the kettle is launched because of feedback from customers. SAQ 6 Consider the development of the plastic kettle, as discussed above. Construct and label a spiral...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...public address systems when the volume is too high and the microphone picks up sound from the loudspeaker. Here, at one particular frequency, there is an exact phase shift of 360 degrees between the microphone and sounds returning to the microphone from the loudspeaker. There is thus reinforcement, and under the right conditions a sine wave with a continually growing...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs