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Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...determine who can catch what, where and when in our own waters. From 1st January 2021, the EU fleet has full access to the UK EEZ for what is essentially six years, as fisheries are managed on an annual basis…'. Yes, the UK fleet has reciprocal access to EU waters, but they are far more reliant on our waters than we are on theirs – EU vessels fish six times more in UK...
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Article 5 mins
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...determined to obtain help for victims, they demanded that issues such as honour based violence should be part of the national curriculum. The teachers also expressed relief at obtaining new insights and support to discuss sensitive issues such as religion, which previously they were less confident in addressing because of a lack of knowledge or a fear of a community...
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Article 10 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...determined genetically, they can be bred by selective breeding (i.e. choosing animals with features you want and breeding them to create new offspring with those features). We have bred dogs with regard to developing better functional capabilities (running, hunting, digging, burrowing, carrying, etc.) or looks (colour, size, shape, skin (wrinkliness), hair (texture,...
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Article 5 mins
Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...determined by the interaction of a range of professionals and senior members of the Trust. In addition, any developments to the site had to be agreed by Cadw – the Welsh equivalent of English Heritage...Aberdulais Falls: A case study in Welsh heritage: 1.3 Stages of development - As a result of the consultation and decision-making process, it was decided, as a primary...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...determines the reality. And I’ve seen so many young men who’ve ended up in a path that they wouldn’t have been on if they weren’t constantly being reminded by policing practices, by school disciplinary policies etc. that people think they’re bad. You know, and so to me, that is one of the most negative, you know, both immediate and long term consequences that...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...determining surface compositions (and also temperatures of Io's active lava flows), an ultraviolet spectrometer, and magnetometers that revealed the satellites' responses as they move through Jupiter's magnetosphere. (Near-infrared means the part of the infrared spectrum that is nearest to the visible. The actual spectral range covered by NIMS was 0.7-5.2μm.)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...determining the ways that science can and should influence our lives. Therefore, we need skills and competencies to assess science and its implications (Holliman, 2008). This course explores some of the skills and competencies that can help scientists and citizens successfully navigate this ever-changing complexity. It introduces and applies concepts from the related...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...determined set of results, and the success or otherwise of the project will generally be judged via audit/evaluation...Week 1: What is a development intervention?: 3 Thinking about change - It has been said that development is good change. But how does change happen? How can desired changes be planned for and brought about? Here are eight different ways of thinking about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs