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Why would you want your own web domain?
Digital & Computing

Why would you want your own web domain?

...code repositories allow us to share code, sites like Shinyapps.io allow you to publish specific sorts of applications, and so on. So where do initiatives like a domain of one’s own come in, which provide members of a university (originally), staff and students alike, with a web domain and web hosting of their own? One answer is that they provide a place on the web for...
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...simple to use structured query language (SQL) CREATE TABLE statements to define tables, or to use the facilities of a database tool to define them for you. Once developed, the tables can be manipulated and displayed in many different ways, again using SQL statements, a database tool or an application development tool. However, uncontrolled ad hoc creation of tables by end...
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...simple answer to these questions but, as we shall discover in the course of this course, there’s no getting around the ubiquity of things. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Arts and Humanities...An introduction to material culture: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand what material culture is...
Amatrice Earthquake: 24th August 2016 - first reactions
Science, Maths & Technology

Amatrice Earthquake: 24th August 2016 - first reactions

...codes. Update at 10am Aftershocks are continuing. Journalists might like to visit http://www.centrometeoitaliano.it/terremoti-in-tempo-reale-italia-mondo-ingv/ I captured the screen grabs below from there at 0935 BST: [Map showing effect of the Earthquakes] [Map showing effect of the Earthquakes] The biggest aftershocks have been magnitude 4. These were in the two hours...
Retail management and marketing
Money & Business

Retail management and marketing

...code technology Looking at the increase and benefits of online shopping and barcode technology. The impact of marketing The importance of marketing and communication. The agency and the message This video looks at how agencies help companies to raise awareness of their brand and promotions. Online retail marketing An online entrepreneur challenges the existing state of...
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...simple, the cheapest way to provide electricity is to use coal. Not having electricity is a great hindrance to economic development not just in terms of consumption growth but also in terms of education, in terms of healthcare and so on and so forth which, even if you don't care much about material wellbeing, are great goods. And the cheapest way to deliver that is...
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...Code, overseen by the UK’s two funding bodies: Sport England (grassroots) and UK Sport (elite). The code requires sports bodies in receipt of government funding to meet a target of at least 30% men and 30% women on their boards by 2017 or risk losing funding. In addition to gender parity, the code also requires organisations to show a ‘strong and public commitment’...
Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Andrew Watson - Stories of Change

...simple models with that observational record from the recent past, when CO2 has been going up. Now that doesn’t take, I think, take into account the fact that there is probably considerably more change to come. In other words some of the feedbacks which tend to make the climate sensitivity higher are relatively slow to come into effect. RH: So what you mean is that we...