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What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...types of cognitive factors.When people talk about changes to their memory they often talk as if memory is one distinct thing and the only thing that influences our thinking skills. But memory is just one specific part of our broader thinking skills, influenced by and interacting with lots of other types of cognitive factors. We call this the ‘cognitive pyramid’. For...
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...type of environment and conditions it was experiencing when it formed. And often we can see this textural information by just looking at a fist-sized sample of a rock with a hand lens. Take these two different sedimentary rocks for example. Sedimentary rocks form through the deposition of sediment, eroded material that has been transported by water or wind. Based on...
OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...type the name of the file you want to keep (eg, ExistingFootprint1). Select ‘Save’ To open ExistingFootprint1 (or any other file that you’ve named). Select the down arrow in the lower box, select the file and select ‘Open’ To delete a file, select it and select ‘Delete’. Why does the calculator not ask for real data? Some calculators ask users for ‘real...
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...types of vaccines used today, examine their production and explore the limitations that are placed on vaccination programmes...Vaccinations are now considered a part of everyday life, but how do they work? Vaccination is a free course that will help those with a background in biology understand the historical development of vaccination, assess the various types of...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster
Science, Maths & Technology

Riddle of the Tay Bridge disaster

...de-railed through a combination of heavy wind and a weak girder. Tom Martin's Tay Bridge analysis Mathematician Tom Martin uses the modern method of 'structural computer analysis' to understand the failure of the bridge, and looks at how this failure started at the base columns due to heavy winds. Forensic Engineering Dr Pete Lewis explains how he believes the dynamic...
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...types of pathogen, for example bacteria or viruses. The wider causes of infectious diseases range from insanitary living conditions in impoverished communities, to inadequate hygiene in the high-tech environments of modern hospitals (Figure 4). The impact of infectious diseases is therefore unequally distributed around the world, not only between countries, but also...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...De Silva, 2000, p. 10); nor as a true countermeasure against opportunism. This is because the type of conscience invoked in equity today is, as Margaret Halliwell maintains, preserved only ‘within the confines of technical learning’ in an ‘artificially ordered’ state (2004, p. 158). There is a further way to consider conscience in this context: that individualised...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...types of innovation. It also explores how this is applied in the workplace, and how it has changed over time. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T849 Strategic capabilities for technological innovation...Technological innovation: a resource-based view: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to:...