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Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening

...course SDK125 Introducing health sciences: a case study approach... Introducing Health Sciences: Breast Screening A short introduction to this album Having a mammogram Find out exactly what happens when women have a mammogram. Follow up clinic Follow one woman's experience when a mammogram does not give clear results. Analysing Mammograms Step inside the pathology lab,...
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Alternative education: listening to the voices of young people
Education & Development

Alternative education: listening to the voices of young people

...courses available on OpenLearn. This platform has enabled her to pursue Further Education (FE College) and Higher Education through The Open University due to its uniquely inclusive ethos that supports learning regardless of age, income, or background. Most courses do not require young people to hold prior qualifications. The Open University is open to all. A significant...
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Transfer moulding
Science, Maths & Technology

Transfer moulding

...free-flowing characteristics. Design: The size of the part that can be transfer moulded is limited by the size of the presses available. A large part would have a projected area of 650 cm2. Capable of producing components with varying wall thicknesses, delicate holes and the inclusion of inserts (these would not be possible by compression moulding). Closer tolerances are...
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Cell membrane: The cell's city wall
Nature & Environment

Cell membrane: The cell's city wall

...free passage of different types of molecules. COMPARTMENTS Just as different activities in the city go on in different buildings or places, the cell too has its own specialised areas. Just as in a city you would not want a restaurant in the same building as a sewage works, so in the cell, different functions are separated into different compartments. All these...
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How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?
Education & Development

How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?

...free from racism, discrimination, and bias’ (see articles from The Independent and BBC News), there is mounting public and a great deal of police internal scrutiny of UK police forces’ interactions with BAME communities. After accusations of racial profiling from Team GB Olympic Gold medallist Bianca Williams following being stopped and searched by police in July...
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Do we have a right to die?
History & The Arts

Do we have a right to die?

...free from any phone on 116 123 (it will not appear on your phone bill), email jo@samaritans.org, or visit www.samaritans.org to find details of your nearest branch. The Motor Neurone Disease Association also provides support to people affected by motor neurone disease in England, Wales and NI - 03457 626262 or visit The Motor Neurone Disease Association. [Debate concept...
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Tell us how you learn online
Education & Development

Tell us how you learn online

...Course (MOOC) activities. The survey was created by the EU-funded project BizMOOC, of which The Open University is a partner. You can find out more about the project and the project partners on the website bizmooc.eu. With the help of your input, the BizMOOC project will produce and publish an interactive, open access MOOC BOOK containing contain good practice guidelines...
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Does your personality influence your career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does your personality influence your career?

...personality. Whether they enjoy their job or not, again, can be dependent on the match between their personality and the job they’re doing. And then, of course, to get into an occupation you need to be recruited, and employers are looking to recruit people with particular personality types for particular jobs. There’s all sorts of ways in which those two overlap....
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