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What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...work together to identify how to apply Planetary Protection principles and requirements to such missions, but it is recognised that removing the possibility of biological and organic contamination by a human is not possible; humans have their own microbiome made up of thousands of different types of microorganisms. It is also impossible to isolate any members of a crew or...
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...works of Patricia Highsmith, Peter Cheyney and Walter Mosley (Muise, 2002). All of these influences merged together in his songwriting, resulting in a unique form of ‘hardboiled blues’. [Gallagher's Crime Novel Collection Behind His 1961 Fender Stratocaster (Poster owned by author)] Gallagher’s Crime Novel Collection Behind His 1961 Fender Stratocaster (Poster owned...
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...working in the UK, deduced and published the three-dimensional structure of DNA. It was the year that might be described as the dawn of molecular biology, for their publication was to have far-reaching consequences in terms of our understanding of the nature of life, i.e. how cells function at the molecular level. So monumental was this work that they were awarded,...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...work on my computer, although if I decide to check my email account, or access some information on the Open University intranet, or perhaps seek to purchase a textbook from an online retailer, I may need to enter further user names, account details or passwords. This sequence of events is likely to be fairly typical of the requirements of many work environments and you...
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...works. The title page of this edition (shown in Figure 1) tells us that the play ‘was presented privatly, at the Blackfriers and publicly at the Globe’; that is, the play opened at the Blackfriars, the company’s indoor theatre, and then played at the open-air Globe. The title page also informs potential readers that the text of the play is the ‘perfect and exact...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...work within Ford’s factories was structured and carried out. In came the production line, with workers carrying out the same tasks, at a set speed, over and over for the duration of their shift. [Described image] Figure 2 Ford production line from 1928. The benefits (and costs) arising from Ford’s process innovation, obviously had a significant and lasting impact on...
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: Return to the water: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: contrast the physical properties of air and water and describe implications of such differences for aquatic mammals give examples of the adaptations...
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...worked problem we present an object that looks as though it might be a surface, but fails to be so because it has a point with no such neighbourhood. Worked problem 1 [Figure 9] Figure 9 Explain why the double cone, open at both ends, is not a surface. Solution Although most points on the double cone have disc-like or half-disc-like neighbourhoods, the point z in the...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs