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Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...works, was the variety which evolved into the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and other languages. Whether two different linguistic varieties are deemed to be the same language or not is not wholly a linguistic issue, but relies upon political and cultural factors as well. Latin vocabulary survives in these languages, although sometimes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...work; musicians imitate recordings (thus reducing diversity). Source D (Manuel): cassette recording aids diversification of repertoire, and the preservation of archaic, endangered forms. Most observers seem to agree that recording has led to the unification of different styles and a consequent lessening of musical variety, as the recordings themselves are imitated. There...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...work through the course. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Environment & Development...Studying mammals: The social climbers: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the charactistics of primates and explain the main differences between the two suborders, prosimians and anthropoids describe the detection of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...working with the video and further evidence. This study of a city will then broaden out to consider other forms of material and visual evidence from different parts of Africa; you will also watch more video sequences. This section focuses upon one aspect of Romano-African culture: the interplay between Roman culture and indigenous African culture. This theme is one of a...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...work out what the power should be, you simply count how many times you moved the decimal point. The composition of the gut microbiome changes throughout our lives. During the first 3 years of life our gut microbiome is formed and affected by various factors, such as breastfeeding, weaning and bacteria found in the local environment. As we age, two groups of bacterial...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Як написати резюме
Education & Development

Як написати резюме

...V - це не історія всього вашого життя, а лише ті частини життевого досвіду, які мають відношення до цього роботодавця. Learn new skills to help you with finding work...
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Article 5 mins
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...work out a representative value for the temperature for each month, an average is used to give an idea of a ‘typical’ or expected value. There are different ways of expressing an average value but the most common is the mean (which is often referred to as the average, as done here). The average (or mean) is obtained by adding up all the values of a set of data and...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...work with a diagram length of 1 cm. As 2 cm represent 1 m, 1 cm will represent 0.5 m. Then 6 cm represent 0.5 × 6 m = 3 m, 0.2 cm represent 0.5 × 0.2 m = 0.1 m, 3 cm represent 0.5 × 3 m = 1.5 m, 3.6 cm represent 0.5 × 3.6 m = 1.8 m, 0.5 cm represent 0.5 × 0.5 m = 0.25 m. (b) Here 1 m in reality is represented by 2 cm on the diagram. So 2.3 m are represented by 2.3 ×...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs