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How religious groups support peacebuilding in the UK
History & The Arts

How religious groups support peacebuilding in the UK

...enabling people working in the public sector and schools to better understand the identities and needs of different communities. In this film, Dr John Maiden interviews Riaz Ravat, Deputy Director, about its work. Transcript These OpenLearn materials are an adapted extract from the Open University course DA332 Religion and global challenges in the past and present....
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Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...Adapted from Horngren et al., 1999, p. 38) In Figure 10, you can see that the tyres used in the assembly of a car are both variable and direct costs. Another example of a direct cost is the annual leasing cost of cars used by sales representatives, although you should note that these particular costs are fixed as they do not vary with the level of activity in terms of the...
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What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?
History & The Arts

What makes near-future Sci-Fi especially scary?

...adapted for the small screen and will air in late April. It is set in a gender-segregated, theocratic republic that is fixated on wealth and class. Women are rated according to their ability to reproduce in a near-future where environmental disasters and rampant sexually transmitted diseases have rendered much of the population infertile. Amid growing fears of religious...
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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language learning

...adapt them to the language you are studying and your level. Another way to support your learning with online translation tools is their special features. Whether you are teaching yourself independently, or whether you are studying in a teacher-led language course, you can adapt your learning environment to cater for your individual needs. For example, if you are a...
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What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today
Education & Development

What the 2024 Paris Olympics can tell us about French language policy today

...adaptable language, incorporating a range of new words, notably from the Francophone world. For example, a recent addition to the Petit Larousse dictionary is the Cameroonian import ‘faroter’, meaning to bribe someone to obtain a job. In December 2022, the French Ministry of Culture published a first report containing 10 new terms to refer to the dancing sport known...
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Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...adapted their approach using a technique known as traffic shaping. Skype still works, but any communication using the service would be given the lowest (almost unusable) priority on the network infrastructure. That means people could, in theory use Skype, but the quality of the connection is likely to render any chances of sensible conversation impossible. But as soon as...
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...adapted his ideas into Diamond Dogs and created his own dystopian world: a broken society where “a disaffected youth … lived as gangs on roofs and … had the city to themselves”. In the Britain of that time, with its food shortages, power cuts and IRA bombings, an artistic fascination with these ideas isn’t that surprising. The bleakness of the social landscape...
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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...adapt or even transform into new development pathways. (Folke, 2016). To learn more about resilience in social-ecological systems, you can access the SRC’s handy resilience dictionary. [Hisso grass reflection]Figure 1: This multi-lake nature reserve in Sweden is a typical social-ecological system managed for ecosystems, water supply, hydroelectricity and human...
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