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Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...centred perspective by pointing to the disastrous consequences of treating the actual speaker rather than the words the speaker uses as the arbiter of an utterance's meaning. They are fond of alluding to Humpty Dumpty (as he figures in Lewis Carroll's Alice through the looking-glass rather than as he figures in the nursery rhyme) to make their point. Below is a passage...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...centred around the concept of class. In time, however, this perspective has widened, and other units of reuse have been defined. In the remainder of this section we will review some of them, including the concepts of framework, component and pattern. Exercise 12 Which artefacts of a software development process can you identify as reusable? AnswerSolution Reuse in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground
History & The Arts

Voice-leading analysis of music 2: the middleground

...centre and gives the passage a feeling of completeness. Example 22 has introduced a couple of new notational features. The beam connecting together the notes of the linear descent in the treble is a more effective way of indicating this sort of middleground line than simply using a large slur. The same goes for the beam showing the I–V–I progression in the bass. Beams...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...children, living alone, in large or small households, or in institutions; some of them working, others unemployed, some retired and others still at school. It is not possible, using statistical techniques, to provide a complete answer to this one question covering such a big theme, particularly an answer which is valid for all these people and their varied economic and...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...research, combining precise measurements with the approximations and simplifications that are inevitably part of any branch of biological science. You've encountered different types of diagram in Section 2. Inevitably they are simplifications of the real thing - and they leave out details and assumed irrelevancies. Sometimes diagrams try to capture the essential features...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...children along on a sledge (Figure 10a). He has a rope attached to the sledge which makes an angle α with the ground. Knowing that the force F on the rope is 50 N (newtons) and α is 25°, you can find the horizontal and vertical components of the force. The force F acting in the rope may be considered as two component forces. The horizontal component can be called Fh...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...researchers and companies are working to make quantum computers a reality. By the end of this course, you will have a grasp of quantum computing fundamentals, its computational advantages, and the technological advancements shaping its future. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course SM380 Quantum physics: fundamentals and
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...children's nursery rhyme – ‘JACK and JILL went UP the HILL’ – but even in the most ordinary sentence the important words are given more stress. In poetry, rhythm is extremely important: patterns are deliberately created and repeated for varying effects. The rhythmical pattern of a poem is called its metre, and we can analyse, or ‘scan’ lines of poetry to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs