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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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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
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...study in Arts and Humanities...Emotion: An introductory picture: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: discuss basic philosophical questions concerning the nature of emotions discuss some of the philosophical literature on this subject by William James understand problems concerning the nature of emotions and discuss them in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...study of women composers formed a large or a small part of your musical education? Did you study/perform any works by women when you were training? If you have been put off performing works by women, what were the reasons? Was it difficult to find scores of their works? Were you worried that audiences would be put off by hearing works that they might not be familiar with...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...study why respiration is so important for life, including how air enters and leaves the lungs, how oxygen is transported in the blood, the many dynamic factors that control breathing, and some diseases that affect respiration...‘Don’t hold your breath’ is an expression you’ve probably heard many times, but may not have thought too much about. In this free course,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?

...studying this week, you should be able to: have an understanding of the principles of forensic science explore the forensic science process discuss concepts of trust consider the relationship between trust in forensic science and the criminal justice system...Week 1 Trusting forensic science: 1 What is forensic science? - Forensic science is often described as the science...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs