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How might Brexit affect Scotland?
Society, Politics & Law

How might Brexit affect Scotland?

...Analysis of the results showed that although the country chose to leave, there was a split in opinion of nation-states. England and Wales voted for withdrawal from the European Union, while Northern Ireland and Scotland favoured remaining; 56% to 44% and 62% to 38% respectively. As the media coverage of Brexit has predominantly focused on the nation as a whole, we asked...
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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...data and measurements from the real world and simulating what happens when we fiddle around with them: how much rainfall, the flow of rivers, that type of thing. It’s a way of simplifying the chaos of the physical world, in a computer so that we can try to predict what might happen in the real world. You can run simulations thousands of times, each with very subtle...
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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...data. Recent observations and re-analysis of data indicate that there are also uncertainties with the simple temperature measurements. RH: The University of East Anglia Scientist Phil Jones said, when asked about the pause, five years is far too soon to tell any trend whatsoever. If after ten years we're still in a pause then we'll start wondering where our models have...
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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...data. This acknowledges that interpretation and analysis is about making a case which inevitably pivots on judgment...Week 4: Evaluating development interventions: 2 Debating the value of types of evidence for evaluation - In this section you will read two blogs written in 2013 by development practitioners. The first is by Rosalind Eyben and Chris Roche, who were with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...data we need has to be stored in a variable. Translating Python to English, the assignment states ‘let result be the sum of 3 and 7’. The second instruction, print, prints some text on the screen, followed by the computed result. Note the following: the comma separates the two things to be printed, in the same way we use commas in English to enumerate two, three, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...analysis, sociology or business management. In order to get the most out of this course, you need to be familiar with, or at least not worried by, simple mathematics, and recognise some related concepts such as chance and probability. Working through the first self-assessment question (SAQ) will give you an indication of the skills and attitudes involved. If you find you...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...analysis of the cost data such as by regression analysis, which was covered in B126. Now that you have explored cost behaviour in terms of fixed and variable costs, you will look at the notion of direct versus indirect costs...Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting: 4 Direct and indirect costs - Cost can be divided into two broad...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Sex stats for the British population
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sex stats for the British population

...data collected by Natsal-3, a survey collected from thousands of adults living all over Britain...Find out more about The Open University’s statistics qualifications. [Illustration of a public park scene, full of people doing various activities.] Click on the image above, to start your interactive experience... Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser....
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