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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...analysis, and examples of qualitative evidence or data include using the following methods: Participant observation involves the researcher systematically describing events and behaviours in the setting of their chosen study. For instance, in fieldwork conducted in a South Australian community that has experienced significant socio-economic disadvantage, researchers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...analysis of data. Ken Welsh We have excavated nearly 100 hectares which really is a very large area, and that is 100 hectares of a prehistoric and Roman landscape, and because we have dug such a lot, instead of just as archaeologists normally do, just see a key hole, they might see a small bit of a settlement here or part of a field here, we have been able to see the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...analysis and then apply successful processes to manage it. The course is supported by case studies and audio-visual materials to help explain the varied and often complex risk management practices employed at Rolls-Royce and widely elsewhere. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...analysis. It says any host that “organizes” videos posted by users loses important parts of its eCommerce immunities. Therefore, these platforms can be held responsible for finding and removing content. This interpretation would effectively change the rules for Internet users and intermediaries without formally reopening the eCommerce Directive. If it is right, courts...
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Article 10 mins
From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...Data from the Census in 2011 in England and Wales might assist in understanding some of these onward migrations; nevertheless, it is still quite difficult to provide an estimate of more recent migrations (i.e. post-2011) or migrations of BME ‘New Europeans’ in the UK. Previous research found that BME Europeans, especially where they were highly educated and skilled,...
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Article 5 mins
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...analysis of how race structures the contemporary surveillance of Black bodies, Simone Browne states ‘Surveillance is nothing new to black folks. It is the fact of anti-blackness’ (2015, p.10). In her work Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Browne states that ‘If we are to take transatlantic slavery as antecedent to contemporary surveillance technologies...
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Article 10 mins
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...analysis to look for patterns in stock-market data. The EMH suggests that there is no reason for such expert investment strategies to work any better than buying stocks in proportion to their weighting in the market index, or even buying a random selection of stocks. [Described image] Figure 14 The ‘random walk’ from tossing a coin. Source: Malkiel (2007, p.130)....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...data is from a small cohort of patients with COVID-19 and, although suggestive, it needs to be carefully interpreted and validated by other independent studies. How does radiotherapy treatment affecting the immune system in relation to COVID-19? Radiotherapy is the treatment where radiation is used to kill cancer cells and/or shrink the tumour. There are different types...
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Article 15 mins