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Introducing the GRACE project – your community and genetics research
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing the GRACE project – your community and genetics research

...data comes from South Asians. Their representation, therefore, needs to increase by four times to accurately represent the number of South Asians in the UK. Underrepresentation can be seen across all areas of genetics research and has significant consequences for the health and well-being of these communities. For example, oximeters used widely during the COVID-19...
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Video 3 mins
Moons of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of the Solar System

...data from the mission and its Cassini mother craft has revealed it to be a fascinating world of methane lakes, rainstorms and cryo-volcanoes. This film brings us the latest news from the orangey world, including audacious plans for a return splashdown. Archive footage appears courtesy of Footagevault. The Moon When Apollo 17 lifted off from the lunar surface in 1972, it...
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Video 31 mins
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...data as part of fundraising bits. They might be doing needs analysis, or they might be trying to think about who else is operating in an area. And our data will help them understand how many other organisations are doing that. I’d really like people to be able to use our data to understand their organisation by benchmarking themselves against it. And we are trying to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...data exclude links coming from within an institution’s logged-in learning environment because this cannot be tracked, hence this number is likely to be larger.) A month after being made live, the English language OER collection of resources became OpenLearn’s seventh most popular page on its introduction with over 36,000 views. The dominance of OER in English Because...
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Article 10 mins
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...analysis should not only identify in calendar terms, and usually at least monthly, when liquidity is limited, but should also give a measure of the volume of funding sources that need to be available to avoid a cash shortage. The projection also needs to identify the peaks and troughs of cash flow, if any, within the period. Forecasting month-end positions may be...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...data, which the risk factor analysis is based on, is perceptions about notions of risk from young people themselves or from the practitioners within the youth justice system, which may be completely at odds with what seems to be indicated by quantitative research. So, in other words, it generalises probabilities to specific individuals and, as I’ve said, it may create a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...data) (Source: Bloomberg) Greece is a member of the eurozone. Before it joined, it issued bonds in its own currency, the Greek drachma, and repaid as it wished using its own currency. In 2010, Greek government debt was denominated in euros but the Greek government did not have control over this currency. No individual government in the eurozone has the right to issue...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering

...analysis and profit. For this reason it is not usually associated to long term investment strategies. Indeed a key critique of “financialization” is that it prioritizes short term gains at the expense of a more sustainable investments over a greater period of time. This is particularly true for things such as scientific research – whose gains, as well as the time it...
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Article 5 mins