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Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...podcast that introduces the topic of the challenges of international marketing. Specifically, Albrecht’s (2006) reference to the growing internationalisation of Chinese organisations and Goldsmith’s (2004) trend of increasing globalisation are reviewed. Before you listen to the podcast it is important to provide a brief overview of some of the environmental factors...
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...mathematics, astronomy, and a natural scientist, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist. Leonardo da Vinci, regarded by many historians and scholars as a universal genius. His areas of interest spanned a wide range of subjects, from invention, painting, and sculpting, to architecture, science, music, mathematics, and engineering. The...
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...mathematically accurate perspectivei norder to create a convincing illusion of space. In these, Leonardo grappled with the final composition, drawing the figures in a multitude of forms. He also completed numerous studies for the horses, experimenting with different positions and placement. 1485 Flight Parachute Leonardo was the first known inventor of a parachute. His...
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...podcasts and other material relevant to religion and environments...Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Graham Harvey. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0...
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...mathematics and thereby give apparent verisimilitude to a model that has little basis in reality but has an academic core of a sort. In a real sense the whole thing smacks of the scholastic disputes that occurred in the 17th century regarding the earth going round the sun. By 1929 the economics profession had consolidated this idea as its core basis and could not stomach...
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...mathematics that might be involved. These interactive videos are designed to help you familiarise yourself with the basic statistics that you are likely to use as part of your course and reduce any anxieties you may have about studying and using statistics. The good news is that these days, when we carry out statistics in social science, very little of it is done by hand....
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...mathematical background and he’s actually … give him a lot of credit, he’s put a lot of effort into working out the numbers for himself that he thinks are right for how sensitive the earth’s climate is to CO2, how much warming would we get say if we doubled CO2? So he comes to conferences and he defends his ideas, and there are a lot of people who’ve in some...
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...Mathematics...Ratio, proportion and percentages: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: with simple ratios convert between fractions, decimals and percentages explain the meaning of ratio, proportion and percentage find percentages of different quantities calculate percentage increases and decreases...Ratio, proportion and percentages: 1.1...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs