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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...becomes apparent that the MMR vaccine controversy rates very highly indeed on ‘fright factors’ compared with other types of risks that might, statistically, be more likely to occur. A scientific assessment of risk, which focuses on mathematical probabilities, often tends to ignore these ‘fright factors’, whereas public perceptions tend to prioritise them over...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...becomes central to understanding their structure and the ways in which an organisation might act, with implications for innovation and environmental management. Activity 2 Purpose Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Identify the different purposes of the organisations you considered while developing your answer for Activity 1. Provide your answer... Discussion My employer’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...become foul smelling and grossly offensive. A river in such a state is obviously not desirable as a water source for potable supply. Some industrial effluents discharged in large quantities can be similarly harmful. For example, effluents from the food industry are not particularly toxic, but because of their organic content and large volume, they can exert a considerable...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...becomes hugely dependant on ‘loving their job’....Contemporary issues in managing: Introduction - This free course provides you with a short introduction to three managerial approaches adopted by organisations currently. The course is divided into three sections that cover: Managing through organisational culture Managing through internal marketing Managing through...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...become determined to reverse this longstanding scientific neglect of pregnant women. Science and society, they argue, have got it utterly wrong: our efforts to protect women and their fetuses have actually put them both in jeopardy. “Ethics doesn’t preclude including pregnant women in research,” says Lyerly. “Actually, ethics requires it.” On 16 December 1961,...
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Article 15 mins
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...become even more pressing and their consequences more acute in times when the economy is not growing; or worse, in moments when it is actually shrinking. As the famous economist Paul Krugman wrote in 2012, 'times of crisis are when economists are most needed. If they cannot get their advice accepted in the clinch – or worse yet, if they have no useful advice to offer...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...becomes animated describing the torment of those with no voice: his patients. People in a ‘vegetative state’ are awake yet unaware. Their eyes can open and sometimes wander. They can smile, grasp another’s hand, cry, groan or grunt. But they are indifferent to a hand clap, unable to see or to understand speech. Their motions are not purposeful but reflexive. They...
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Article 15 mins
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...become groundwater may eventually re-emerge at the surface as springs where the water table intersects the surface. Almost all streams and rivers have springs or seepages as their ultimate source, or are fed by them at various points along their courses. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Environment & Development...Surface water: Learning...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs