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Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...work out which customers they really want to be going for, the ones that are likely to want it and likely to be paying, more likely to pay. So learning more about your customers, again they don’t, once the transaction’s closed that’s done and they want to think about the next thing, so there’s all that to take into account as well. It’s quite complex, so it’s...
Cultural differences in mental health?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cultural differences in mental health?

...work available which makes it easier for someone recovering from psychosis to engage in productive activities. The other side of the coin is that there are concerns that, as developing countries lack the mental health infrastructure of industrialised countries, there are many people who are not receiving appropriate treatment, or who may even being treated with cruelty or...
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...work by Shaw and Garlan: Software architecture encompasses the set of significant decisions about the organization of a software system including the selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the system is composed; behaviour as specified in collaboration among those elements; composition of these structural and behavioural elements into larger...
A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...social media, completing his Twitter acquisition for an eye-watering US$44 billion, and Jodie Whittaker exited Doctor Who five years after becoming the first female Doctor. New to OpenLearn: check out our new ‘intro to OpenLearn’ animation and our Good hair: perceptions of racism interactive. [Blue banner says population rockets, while rocket gets populated] The...
5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...social stimulation, levels decrease significantly. The decline that follows is usually steep and leads to rapid deterioration of the individual. Care home residents, in addition to cognitive impairment already present, are likely to quickly develop co-morbidities that require multiple medications; significant limitations in carrying out day to day activities including...
A timeline between The OU and the royal family
History & The Arts

A timeline between The OU and the royal family

...Social Sciences (FASS) often in the thick of proceedings. The department has also drawn inspiration from the royals, with their traditions and lives providing a springboard for think pieces, videos and even a free OpenLearn course. As the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations draw near, take a look back across the decades to see how the royals have helped shape what the...
Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?
Society, Politics & Law

Could a progressive alliance remake UK politics?

...social upset. Going on the offensive, then, seems to be the only option on the table. It’s difficult to do otherwise: a defence of the indefensible is not possible or sustainable; only attack. The result is a cabinet of ministers who belittle anyone seeking to scrutinise them and a prime minister who announces a snap general election with incredible belligerence,...
The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...that British withdrawal and the division of the country was to take place in just two months. The social ruptures and atrocities that accompany the unfolding of this time-compressed partition plan, particularly along the partitioned borderlands of Punjab and Bengal, ensure that the new nation-states of India and Pakistan are born with profound mutual distrust and enmity....