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World in transition: Managing Resources
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Managing Resources

...Practical Action) has helped people in a Peruvian valley. How sustainable was the ITDG intervention? An analysis of the Peruvian project, and an examination of its potential to be progressed and sustained by the Peruvians involved. Studying international development Dr Helen Yanacopulos talks about The Open University course and some of the case studies on this album....
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Audio 1 hr 35 mins
Participatory development in action
Society, Politics & Law

Participatory development in action

...Practical Action) has helped people in a Peruvian valley. How sustainable was the ITDG intervention? An analysis of the Peruvian project, and an examination of its potential to be progressed and sustained by the Peruvians involved. Studying international development Dr Helen Yanacopulos talks about The Open University course and some of the case studies on this album....
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Audio 1 hr 36 mins
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
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...analysis of time-varying signals represented in both the time and frequency domain use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal...Electronic applications: 1 Electronics everywhere - Begin by considering the following situation: You are sitting at home watching the television, and a woman in a diving suit, surrounded by sharks is speaking directly to you,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...data, facilitating progress in several long-standing challenges (including visual object recognition and machine translation). Note this timeline begins in 1950, although it is possible to find important precedents in the first half of the 20th Century. For a more detailed timeline, see the BBC’s ‘15 key moments in the story of Artificial Intelligence’. However,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...analysis from three scholars. [Chris Christie] Chris Christie Candidates and media spar, but Americans get their moment Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management We were promised a debate over economic issues, but what we got for the first hour was protracted sparring between TV interviewers posing gotcha questions hoping to egg on candidates to attack each other and...
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Article 5 mins
Embedding mental wellbeing in higher education through inclusive curricula and pedagogy
Education & Development

Embedding mental wellbeing in higher education through inclusive curricula and pedagogy

...data and evaluation criteria A survey sent to a larger cohort of students and staff to invite input into the barriers and solutions identified, as well as ideas for evaluation criteria and measures. My study aims to facilitate students and practitioners to critically examine their institution, to identify barriers to wellbeing and solutions that the institution can adopt....
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What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...data about a specified condition), Calculate (a calculator that impacts on treatment, diagnosis or care) Diagnose (diagnoses a specified condition, guides diagnoses). The third section illustrates Evidence tier 2, which is Inform (provides information, resources or activities to the public, patients or clinicians. Includes information about a condition or general health...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs