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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...determine what we perceive in the world about us – how we think about situations, people, organisations and problems. This in turn affects how we act, often with important consequences. Box 1 gives two examples of implicit mental models affecting behaviour. Box 1 Implicit mental models Example 1 A friend of mine was an immigrant to Australia in 1950 when she was three...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...determine access and management of different parts of the reef. Indeed, in most cases the official and the local would be thought of as competing forms of heritage. Heritage itself is a dynamic process which involves competition over whose version of the past, and the associated moral and legal rights which flow from this version of the past, will find official...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...determining sex and how they are inherited...Inheritance of characters: 1.1.1 Inheritance of characters - Imagine you have found some old family photograph albums which span many generations. What are the distinctive family features, or characters, that demonstrate the relatedness of individuals? In other words, what characters do they have in common? For example, they...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...determining the likelihood that the development can be patented. Corporate management and finance will be involved if the new product represents a change in strategy for the organisation and significant, new capital investment is required. Once again the accountant should have a role in the process of evaluating the capital project. In cooperating it is important that all...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...determining factor, testosterone, is the latest and greatest marker for determining sex, even though research has shown there is no single element than can be used to pigeonhole the world into two neat biological categories: male/female. This binary is an easy fiction that obscures the more complicated details of real life. Yet, the IOC insists on its fiction of the neat...
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Article 5 mins
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...determination will typically require hundreds of milligrams to grams of material, escalating to perhaps kilograms for preclinical safety and pharmacy evaluation. By the time human trials are initiated, tens to hundreds of kilograms are often necessary; production may entail quantities measured in tonnes. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...determine a more typical value for the temperature. The data points on both lines in Figures 2 and 3 represent the mean of over 50 years of temperature data. Having established which line represents which location, one can immediately see that the range (i.e. the difference between the minimum and maximum values on the graph) in temperature at Alert is ~35 °C with winter...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...determinants of health behaviour As you can see, the immediate environment approximates to Kotler's social factors. Many studies of both commercial and social marketing emphasise the influence of family, friends and others on our decisions. Peer group pressure is an important influence and may be negative or positive. Figure 1 illustrates an approach known as...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs