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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
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
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...analysis is still the basis of much of forensic science. Systems for the classification of fingerprints had been developed during the 19th century by several investigators. The discovery that most fingerprints were invisible to the naked eye but could be made visible by the use of powders was also developed during the 19th century. There were disputes about who was first...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...data in a practical way to assess local crime figures conduct research into the evidence base for a suggested police initiative draw on what you’ve learned from the topics covered by the community engagement courses for use in your own setting...Applying your community engagement skills: 1 Setting the scene - You are going to be presented with an unfolding scenario that...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...Data collection on cancer rates in China have improved over recent years (Chen et al., 2016) and show that lung cancer is the most common cancer causing death. However, a considerable amount of evidence needs to be gathered before some hazardous chemical in the environment can be shown unequivocally to be the cause of increased cancers. Activity 1 Pathways for hazardous...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Communication in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication in health and social care

...analysis of interpersonal relationships in care work. This material forms part of The Open University course K309 Communication in health and social care... Communication in health and social care A short introduction to this album Relationships in two settings Using two locations in the West Midlands, interpersonal relations are analysed in the context of everyday...
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60-Second Adventures in Economics
Society, Politics & Law

60-Second Adventures in Economics

...analysis became popular the relationship has changed. The Principle of Comparative Advantage David Ricardo's famous economic model, predicts that if there are just two countries and two products both can be better off if they specialise and trade in the thing they’re relatively best at. The Impossible Trinity The Impossible Trinity or 'trilemma' suggests that it is...
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Video 8 mins
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...data he had collected. In doing so, Humboldt turned his back on the prevalent religious explanations for phenomena seen in nature and instead sought process-based scientific explanations for the patterns he saw in his observations. Such a quantitative approach allowed him to investigate how Earth’s surface temperature varies with height, how heat and material is...
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Article 20 mins