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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...open up the model, okay, so what it’s showing me here is you can see here that it’s showing me that field size has a positive influence on skylark numbers. The bigger the field size, the more skylarks there are. And it’s also showing me that there’s in effect a crop type there. It’s showing me that spring cereals here have more skylarks in them than winter...
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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...open and unhealed, bacteria move in. Even when this doesn’t result in an overt infection, a thin layer of bacteria can create a biofilm that covers the sore. Large groups of biofilm bacteria coat themselves in sugars and other barriers that keep antibiotics from killing them off. Biofilms, along with dead tissue, mean that even the most advanced wound treatments won’t...
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Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time
Society, Politics & Law

Why I believe 'yes' is only a matter of time

...You’ve just returned from a lecture tour in the USA and back here at the Open University we heard that you kicked up a storm. What is it about the Scottish Independence Referendum that caught people’s imagination in the United States? Gerry Mooney: Well, can I start by blaming Mel Gibson, yes, and you obviously have an Australian connection, so you’ve probably got some idea why I’m criticising Mel Gibson, because ......
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The Seasons in Art
History & The Arts

The Seasons in Art

...Open University, and I’m ending my little series of films about the seasons in art by considering spring. And the only possible place to start is with Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera, painted in Florence around 1480, surely the most famous picture of spring in western art. Although there’s been a huge amount of debate about exactly what exactly it depicts, It clearly...
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Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...Education for action: Preparing youth for participatory democracy’, ann an R. Hayduk, & K. Mattson (Eds.), Democracy’s moment: Reforming the American political system for the 21st Century. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: pp. 91–107. Westheimer, J., & Kahne, J. (2004) ‘What kind of citizen?: the politics of educating for democracy’, American...
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Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...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 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...Open University was recorded in 1983/4 at Flymo-Electrolux Ltd., Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham, and includes an interview with Peter Ginger, Plastics Division Manager of Electrolux. The video shows the range of polymer processes used by a major manufacturer of consumer goods, and it indicates the way in which advanced technology can be applied both to primary shaping...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...resources. Data are in current international dollars based on the 2011 ICP round. One thing you might notice about the web address for this dataset http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD/ - is that it contains an identifier for the dataset: NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD. Many statistics publishers associate a unique identifier with each data publication so that they...
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