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Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...business culture essentials’ - actually prepared me for my degree’s content!’ She even completed an introductory nature and environment course: ‘A family member suggested I try something completely out of my realm of interest, so I chose ‘Introducing mammals’, and I ended up loving it! Will I use it in the future? Probably not, but at least I know about...
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...busy helping to translate the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone, investigating elasticity, describing how colour vision works, or proposing a new universal phonetic alphabet, Young was experimenting with the diffraction of light by narrow apertures and the interference of light due to reflection by thin films. His observations of coloured fringes in these experiments...
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Embarking on a career in cyber security
Digital & Computing

Embarking on a career in cyber security

...to communicate their findings to a variety of audiences, whether this be a corporate boardroom or a court of law. The Open University module Digital Forensics covers how to conduct investigations to correctly gather, analyse and present digital evidence to both business and legal audiences. This module is part of the MSc in Computing - Information Security and Forensics....
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Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...business process outsourcing” – service-industry activity such as data transcription or IT support. “So many international development actors are largely unprepared for the changes underfoot,” Melissa Leach, director of IDS, told the meeting. “The stakes in this, I must emphasise, couldn’t be higher.” Mass unemployment is one; loss of revenue for governments...
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Critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critical social work practice

...business of setting of standards feeds through to the service users. Social work in a US school A school social worker talks about her work and how it is managed at the school that she works at and the issues that are covered by the team. Dealing with emotions and crises A look at some of the services and workshops provided by Amanda and her team at the school. Working in...
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Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...business. Between the levels of plastic conversion and retailer lies ‘Brand owner/OEM’. We will learn more about the value added at this stage in Activity 1. OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer, and represents companies that make a component which is used in another company’s final output. Note the two recycling arrows to the right of Figure 2. These...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...business as usual scenario, RCP 8.5, the track of which we are today. Today we are even a little above this scenario and then that is dramatic for all the organisms and ecosystem services we looked at, all of them, almost, are in the very high risk of impact. So when you contrast those two scenarios you really realise that it’s not very wise to go beyond the 2° target,...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...business world. We have developed a range of cognitive mechanisms to cope with adverse environments in which resources are scarce. These mechanisms include a range of simplifying and confidence-sustaining mental short cuts (heuristics) that help us to make quick decisions when pausing to undertake a full analysis would be unwise. While these ways of thinking are not the...
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