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Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...energy and tend not to travel far [p. 255]. Write four or five sentences suggesting why this statement may be true for howler monkeys but not true for red colobus monkeys [p. 266]. (You may wish to refer to LoM Chapter 4.) Answer (a) The mean day ranges and the weekly home ranges of the large group (in blue) are much larger than for the small group (in red), showing that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Mark Twain on whether Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare

...energy, with violence; and I did mine with the reserve and moderation of a subordinate who does not like to be flung out of a pilot-house that is perched forty feet above the water. He was fiercely loyal to Shakespeare and cordially scornful of Bacon and of all the pretensions of the Baconians. So was I--at first. And at first he was glad that that was my attitude. There...
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The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...energy to the team's work, but can try to influence it with their own views Outgoing, dynamic, challenging; impatient and sometimes provocative Plant Offers lots of imaginative ideas or specialist knowledge to the task Creative thinker, often unorthodox; likes to work alone and not very practical Resource investigator Provides lots of information and has lots of useful...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...energy had only ever been produced this way for short bursts at a time – here is the context. The innovation is in applying springs to the provision of low-power electricity for consumer electronics. Baylis invented a mechanism that gave forty minutes of play from just twenty seconds of winding. The winding action coils a spring, attached to a gearbox, which is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...Energy at The Open University, provides an overview of net zero. STEPHEN PEAKE There’s this phrase that probably a lot of you have heard, ‘net zero’. What does it mean? It simply means that we have to get our collection of greenhouse gas emissions, that’s carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and some industrial gases along the way as well, we have to...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...energy. The time needed for fermentation varies between breweries, but at Hook Norton it is around one week. Following completion of fermentation the beer is transferred into a new tank, sometimes referred to as a conditioning tank or, at Hook Norton, casks. You will learn about the process of conditioning and storage in Week 4 and see how it further impacts on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...energy is transferred – that is, power is force multiplied by distance divided by time (Murray and Kenny, 2016). So in simple terms speed refers to how quickly we move (for example, from the start to the end of a 100m race), while power is a combination of strength and speed, and refers to the ability to execute strong explosive movement at a fast pace (for instance, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...energy metabolism of oiled ducks does increase markedly to make up for the extra heat loss. As this would require twice the normal food intake to maintain, their body fats are used up instead. Only if internal damage is not severe and body fats are still present may a bird survive. Hartung and Hunt (1966) also showed that many internal organs were affected by oil. His...
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