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Guide to diagrams
Money & Business

Guide to diagrams

...multiple cause diagrams to find the 'causal chains' responsible for why an event or change has occurred When you've watched the videos, you can test your knowledge with a short quiz—which of the diagramming techniques would you use to explore 5 different scenarios? Study with the OU If this has inspired an interest in learning more, The Open University runs several...
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Communication in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication in health and social care

...elderly residents. The scenes analyse residential care from multiple viewpoints. Cope in such an intense emotional environment? The casualty ward of any hospital is a place of extreme emotion for patients and staff alike. Three A Skills in action Service users and care workers highlight the ways in which specific communication skills can develop performance and recovery....
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...multiple genders (and using the appropriate terminology). The impact of this could be huge, given the current high rates of discrimination against trans* and non-binary gender people, and the associated high rates of mental health problems and suicide in these groups. As somebody who identifies outside the gender binary myself, I can feel this shift. Of course I...
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The Open University and Children in Scotland learning portal
Education & Development

The Open University and Children in Scotland learning portal

...multiple times a year. Part-time fee grant - this funding is available for those looking to study an OU module or qualification. It is available to those living in Scotland and having a personal income of £25,000 a year or less. It fully covers the cost of studying either a qualification or standalone module. Organisations requiring extra support to help their workforce...
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Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge

...multiple positionings. We sought to critically reflect on the multiple, diverse and intersectional ways we may be positioned and understood as ‘outsiders’ or ‘insiders’, as ‘strange’ or ‘familiar’, not only to participants but also to one another. To do this, we engaged in reflexive conversations among team members that were audio-recorded and transcribed....
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...multiple overlapping crises as they are experienced by those far from ‘home’. Such everyday acts of creative communication enabled by smartphones have been key to establishing and sustaining personal and collective resilience under lockdown. Creative expression defines a sense of self, anchors the individual in the moment, strengthens existing communities and forges...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...multiple data sets. During the training process, LLMs learn the statistical relationships between words in the training set. In the case of ChatGPT, this eventually amounted to some 175 billion relationships derived from 45 terabytes of text. Given the enormous volumes of data being processed, most of this training process is completely automated; running for months on...
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‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...multiple roles and identities as mothers, wives/single parent, daughters, daughters-in-law, carers and students. They shared their challenges in shifting between these identities and fulfilling the associated responsibilities. However, they showed confidence in their identity and abilities to do this. Their narratives also affirmed existing evidence that Asian students...
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