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The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University and she is the author of A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices. Margaret, it’s a fascinating book and I just want to take you back really to begin with, because we were just talking there about this working class interest – here we were in this meeting and someone saying you’ll never going to get them out the...
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Article 15 mins
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...studying this course, you should be able to: describe how natural selection drives changes in allele frequencies, using mosquito resistance to insecticides as an example...Mosquito resistance to insecticides: 1 The ester1 allele - In the 1960s, the French government attempted to rid its Mediterranean coast of mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) in order to attract tourists. It did...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...studied with the well-known German song composer Carl Loewe (1796–1869) and travelled and performed throughout Europe. She composed extensively, including eight Symphonies, a Piano Concerto, an Opera, and many Orchestral Overtures, as well as chamber works, piano pieces and songs. Mayer was highly regarded during her lifetime and her music was widely performed. The...
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Article 10 mins
FGM clinical pathways in Northern Ireland
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM clinical pathways in Northern Ireland

...at Welsh-speaking higher education students studying in Wales and beyond. NHS Choices www.NHS.uk NHS Mental Health Support https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/mental-health-services/ nidirect Mental Health Support www.nidirect.gov.uk Samaritans www.samaritans.org SHOUT Shout 85258 Student Minds https://studentminds.org.uk/ Text About It (Republic of Ireland) Text About It...
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10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and took a Masters degree in Public Administration at Harvard. He worked for a number of years as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at the London Business School before joining the BBC in 1993 as an economics correspondent for radio and television. In 1997, he became Economist Editor on BBC2’s...
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Article 5 mins
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...study of Gothic fiction today, referring to the strange, eerie feeling conjured up by an encounter with something that is simultaneously both familiar and strange. Although the term was not officially coined until the early twentieth century by German psychiatrist Ernst Jentsch in his essay On the Psychology of the Uncanny (1906), there is evidence that Gothic writers of...
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Article 45 mins
Paratoi aseiniadau
Education & Development

Paratoi aseiniadau

...Skills for OU Study yn rhoi canllawiau ar gwblhau aseiniadau ar lefel prifysgol...Paratoi aseiniadau: 8.2 Gramadeg, sillafu ac atalnodi - Mae llawer o adnoddau defnyddiol ar gael os ydych yn poeni am eich gramadeg a’ch sillafu. Dewch o hyd i eiriadur cynhwysfawr a thesawrws i’ch helpu i wirio sillafu a dod o hyd i eiriau newydd i’w defnyddio - mae rhai ar gael...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...study in Mathematics...Squares, roots and powers: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: evaluate the squares, cubes and other powers of positive and negative numbers with or without your calculator estimate square roots and calculate them using your calculator describe the power notation for expressing numbers use your calculator to find...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs