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Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...work: surveillance, monitoring and reporting of disease outbreaks and analysis of epidemiological data to shed light on the underlying causes, and inform actions to bring outbreaks under control direct intervention to prevent infection, e.g. through vaccination, reducing environmental sources of pathogens, or isolation and treatment of infected individuals education to...
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: Life in the trees: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the common features shown by tree-dwelling mammals from different groups show an awareness of the difficulties of classifying primates,...
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...work together in huge numbers, but they do so in a very rigid manner and only with close relatives. Wolves and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexibly than ants, but they can do so only with small numbers of other individuals that they know intimately. Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. Any large-scale human...
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...work is an example of our global world. Economic migration (that is, moving to another place to find work) is now fairly common. For example, the expansion of the European Union (EU) to include Eastern European countries in 2004 led to a rise in economic migration within Europe. Many places in Scotland now have well-established and dynamic Eastern European — in...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...work of Moffitt et al. published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 2007, and that 'the reverse pattern seems to be frequently present', 'the combination of generalized anxiety disorder and major depression might represent an additional burden' and 'social anxiety disorder (social phobia) is now also regarded as an important and consistent risk factor for the...
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...works with its lyrics to create meaning...This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and ‘bridge’), alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the...
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...work out the mix of stars that make up the galaxy, astronomers can measure the Doppler shifts of these spectral lines and so work out the motions within the galaxy as well as the speed of the galaxy through space. In the case of active galaxies, the spectrum shows features in addition to those of normal galaxies, and it is from these features that the active nucleus of...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...working through a calculation by hand this is shown by crossing through the numbers that cancel each other out, like this: four times 00 divided by one postfix times 000 postfix times zero times 00 Conventionally, fractions are written in their simplest form. In this case, you can simplify further because both top and bottom are divisible by 4 so this fraction can also be...