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The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...changes in Latin, according to the role of the word in the sentence, just to make life difficult for schoolchildren); ‘ad ’ means ‘to’ or ‘towards’; and ‘in’ means ‘in’. ‘Jus’ is sometimes spelled with an ‘I’, but however it is spelled, the word is conventionally pronounced softly, with a ‘y’ sound at the start. For ease of reference I will...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...changed the prevailing and long-standing anonymity of the Byzantine artist into eponymous appreciation. Fame for the majority of Byzantine artists was restricted to God: they were content with the knowledge that He ‘[Lord] knows their names’ – a phrase which describes a belief that, to a certain extent, may account for the shortage of named artists in Byzantium....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...changed drastically over time. The purpose of marketing communications is to engage with target audiences to achieve one (or more) of four functions, which is known as the DRIP model, shown in Figure 1 (Fill and Turnbull, 2019). Click ‘View interactive version’ then click on each of the four functions to read about it in more detail. Figure 1 The DRIP model The most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...changed by the degree to which the team is a virtual team. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of postgraduate study in Management...How teams work: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the issues and processes that relate to team formation and development in a virtual context identify barriers to effective team work in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...changes in the composition of our customer base. An increase in this proportion might indicate successful upselling strategies, while a decrease could signal a need for customer retention efforts. Hypothesis testing: We might want to test whether the true population proportion of big customers differs from a hypothesised value. In this case, we would use a z-test for...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
More working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

More working with charts, graphs and tables

...change between the months seems to be much greater in the graph where the vertical axis starts at £6.5 billion. This is because the total scale on the vertical axis is much smaller than in the second graph, where the vertical axis starts at 0. If you wished to use the line graph to show that turnover is fluctuating strongly, you might prefer to use the first graph,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...changes in the extracellular environment and transduce information about the environment to the inside of the cell, thereby allowing appropriate responses to be initiated. [Described image] Figure 7 A schematic diagram of the animal cell membrane. The membrane consists of a fluid phospholipid bilayer with proteins embedded in it. Integral membrane proteins interact with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...changed over the centuries and be able to contrast the views of Descartes with more modern ideas...This free course, Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction, examines the philosophical questions surrounding the mind. You will examine how beliefs have changed over the centuries and be able to contrast the views of Descartes with more modern ideas....Minds and mental...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs