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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...source, with the lists compiled by Atwater and others. Companies are allowed to incinerate freeze-dried pellets of product in a bomb calorimeter to arrive at calorie counts, though most avoid that hassle, says Marion Nestle. Some use the data developed by Atwater in the late 1800s. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also allows companies to use a modified set of...
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An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...source. The motion chart adds another dimension to our visualisation, time, which is represented by animating the points. Unfortunately, the Gapminder software does not currently run on many tablet or handheld devices, so we will be using a different piece of software (that achieves a similar effect). If you can run the Gapminder software, you might prefer to try using...
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Video 45 mins
Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts

...Open University course L314 A buen puerto: advanced Spanish...Advanced Spanish: Arts and crafts: Learning outcomes - Objetivos lingüísticos Expresar sus gustos y preferencias en el contexto del arte; Definir términos abstractos, especialmente en el contexto académico; Expresar sentimientos y reacciones hacia acontecimientos específicos; Analizar un cuento. Objetivos...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...Open University course SDK228 The science of the mind: investigating mental health...Understanding depression and anxiety: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe how stressful life events may be linked to emotional disorders such as depression and anxiety describe the main features of the physiological stress response evaluate the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...open a dialogue and that programme was certainly used a lot in schools and universities, as do most of our shows. And in the wildlife area I think it was a series, we ended up doing three different programmes, each one building on the previous one. The first one was with Jeff and Sue Turner about the killing of wolves in Northern British Columbia, and the next time around...
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Video 30 mins
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...opener. I was sixteen years old, quite a distance away from my family with all its traditions and customs. In the village, I knew everyone and they knew me but suddenly, I was in a convent school run by white Irish, Reverend Sisters. It was a steep learning curve and often I would yearn for home and all that was familiar. But my parents had put their trust in me and,...
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Article 15 mins
Academi Arian MSE Badge icon
Money & Business

Academi Arian MSE

...source in the English version of the course. This course was originally created by The Open University with contributions and collaboration from MoneySavingExpert.com. The content unless otherwise stated in the course or in the acknowledgements below (or identifiable as third party content in the course) is owned and/or controlled by The Open University and/or...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...open arrowheads between classes represent the inheritance relation, going from subclass to superclass. They could be verbalised as ‘is a kind of’ (or ‘is-a’). One purpose of inheritance is to allow two different classes to share code. Sometimes this results in the creation of classes that do not represent anything in the problem. They are there simply to enable...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs