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Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media
Society, Politics & Law

Children are at risk from junk food advertisements on social media

...data banks on all their users, offering advertisers detailed menus of options for targeting ads. They do so not only with basic demographics such as age or location, but even psychological characteristics and preferences, increasing all consumers’ susceptibility to advertising. Platforms also use children’s data to hone ad targeting. They identify children who are...
How Bitcoin works
Digital & Computing

How Bitcoin works

...data in the block have been changed, even by the smallest amount, the two hashes will be different and it would be obvious the block had been tampered with. Changing the contents of a block far back in the block chain not only creates a conflict with that block’s hash, but all blocks that follow on from it. And it’s not just my computer checking the hashes, millions...
Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...data storage, social media and online meetings. Vampire devices Around 20% of a typical building’s energy consumption, and therefore energy related carbon emissions, comes from devices that continue to drain electricity supplies when seemingly ‘off’. These are devices that are plugged in and either forgotten about or deemed to be using inconsequential amounts of...
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...analysis of the 1975 General Household Survey data by McNabb (1987), reports wage equations for professional and semi-skilled manual workers. Table 7: Occupational wage equations SEMI-SKILLED MANUAL PROFESSIONAL Intercept −0.054 2.89 Schooling 0.047* 0.007 Experience 0.077* 0.034* Experience2 −0.011* −0.0006* log Weeks 1.79* 1.10* R^2 0.556 0.500 Sample size 254 796...
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...analysis of their own teaching: evaluating and sharing practice with their student teacher and modelling the process of critically reflecting on practice. This process involves: the student teacher observing the mentor the mentor talking about what the student saw during the observation. It is valuable for mentors to discuss both the strengths and weaknesses of their own...
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...analysis of data. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus60...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: perform advanced searches of data held on the UK RED site, including locating...
Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Becoming relativist

...analysis and contextual knowledge to make explicit the argument that Nietzsche makes in this aphorism. However, in short, he draws our attention to the exclusive disjunction that is built into our fundamental metaphysical concepts ‘Being’, ‘Nothing’ and ‘Becoming’. For example, imagine someone who believes that absolute Knowledge (with a capital) is a real...
Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...analysis cannot contribute to. Economic implications [Landscape image of a road in South-West Ireland] Ireland is a unique case in respect of Brexit and future relations with the EU. The Good Friday Agreement, that ended the internecine conflict, incorporates socio-economic rights for all citizens in the island of Ireland that are not available to citizens in the rest of...