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Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...statistical models to 'learn' how to perform tasks without an explicit set of instructions. This article was orginally published on the Open Justice Centre website. This note was made possible thanks to contributions from Nina O'Sullivan, Partner and Head Knowledge Lawyer (Innovation), and Harry Clark, Associate in the Video Games & Interactive Entertainment practice, of...
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Article 20 mins
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...statistics on total world energy consumption and the proportion contributed by renewables looked at the UK and the contributions of renewables to delivered energy in all forms, and to electricity in particular looked briefly at climate change and the contribution to global warming that is being made by the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion overviewed...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...statistically, be more likely to occur. A scientific assessment of risk, which focuses on mathematical probabilities, often tends to ignore these ‘fright factors’, whereas public perceptions tend to prioritise them over statistical and experimental data. Indeed, assessments of risk are rarely objective. Value judgements, impossible to measure scientifically, often...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...statistically speaking. The consequences of catastrophic events such as outbreaks of disease, nuclear accidents, war and conflict and outcomes of political upheaval and instability throughout the world are difficult to predict. So much so, that in industrialised (and typically Western) societies 'risk' and 'danger' have become synonymous and strongly associated with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...statistics presented in this Education in numbers infographic, produced for this course by The Open University. Think about: Which statistics surprise or shock you? What are the positive messages in these statistics? What do these statistics identify as challenges for education systems all over the world? What would be your priorities for change to education systems,...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...statistics say? Well, the Hampton Institute says that legacy applicants, that is those who have one parent, at least, in an elite school, have 45% more chances of being accepted into an elite school. What does that statistic mean to you? Your interpretation. Your choice. It's evenly split, but the point here is that you see differently. OK. Got it. We see differently. So...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...statistics to be passed on to the NHS Trust and to government departments. There is an increasing demand for such statistics: to measure the effective spending of public money; to monitor the success of health education campaigns; to look for trends in various conditions. Computerised patient information makes the collation of such statistics much easier. They may also...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...statistics: 2016 to 2017. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/ government/ statistics/ land-use-change-statistics-2016-to-2017. (Accessed: 7 February 2020). Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) (2019) Housing supply; net additional dwellings, England: 2017 to 2018. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/ government/ statistics/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs