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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...out of the soils. Mweetwa and her team are isolating bacteria that thrive in legume root systems, where they live alongside and work together with a type of fungus that expands plant roots’ water and nutrient uptake. “We have already done the reintroduction to see if what we have isolated can reconnect with the beans, and those results are looking pretty good at the...
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The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...out their hands, and piteously crying to him for relief." Saint Patrick prepares for his mission in Ireland "Some think he had travelled into Gaul before he undertook his mission, and we find that, whilst he preached in Ireland, he had a great desire to visit his brethren in Gaul, and to see those whom he calls the saints of God, having been formerly acquainted with them....
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Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...out computations; i.e. they are binary based. The complexity of tasks that any computer can complete is limited by the available time and computing resources. There are two routes to increasing the power of classical computing: one is to improve the hardware, which means increasing the size of the memory, the number of gates on a processor chip, or improving the speed of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...out the cellular response(s) of the signalling pathway). In the yeast, signal transduction to mating factor ultimately stops the target cell proliferating, and induces morphological changes which result in the formation of protrusions towards the cell that releases the mating factor (Figure 1b). The morphological changes are a response to the signal. The two cells can...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...out of dive) 79 Explosive seat ejection from aircraft 147 Automobile crash (100 km h−1 into wall) 982 Football struck by foot 2946 Baseball struck by bat 29 460 Closing jaws of a trap-jaw ant 1 000 000 Jellyfish stinger 53 000 000 We can also consider what the calculated acceleration means, by considering how it converts to motion. If we assume...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...out amplifiers or regenerators. Optical fibre has completely superseded copper wires as the primary medium for cabled transmission over long distances. As demand for capacity has risen, fibre is now being used even in LANs and the access network. An understanding of optical-fibre communications is therefore very important for anyone with an interest in digital...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...out the marginal cost of a unit of output at any level of activity within the so-called relevant cost range. When we cannot accurately predict the future level of activity (which happens often), this classification of costs gives us a powerful management tool for evaluating results under different levels of activity. Variable costs are directly proportional to the level...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs