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Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...energy companies’ standard tariffs! Don’t feel obliged to stay with the first mortgage provider just because they lend you a load of money for 25 years – it’s a commercial relationship, not a marriage! The good news is that the trend over many decades has been rising house prices in both cash and real terms (see the graph above) – so your mortgage not only...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...energy consumption/carbon emissions; encourage recycling; reduce binge drinking and childhood obesity; encourage positive health behaviours; and many more...Social marketing: 2.3 Reasons for social marketing - Your thoughts should already have suggested reasons why social marketing can be an effective approach to dealing with social problems and issues. We will now...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...energy for the atoms to move relative to each other. The quenched material is a disordered solid, known as an amorphous solid or glass (Figure 3). Figure 3 Schematic diagrams of atomic arrangements in the gas, liquid and solid states. The small black arrows represent relative velocities of atoms or molecules in the liquid and gas. In a crystalline solid, atoms are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...energy. Painting makes visible the sensual grounds of a metaphysical fantasy. (Bersani and Dutoit, 1998, pp. 81–2) Activity 11 Click to open Colour Plate 2 showing Caravaggio's St John the Baptist (Youth with a Ram),1602, oil on canvas, 132 x 97 cm, Musei Capitolini, Rome. Photo: SCALA, Florence. In what ways does Bersani and Dutoit's interpretation of Caravaggio's St...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...energy, smart meter, smart media, consumer electronics, mobile devices, security.] Figure 1 28 Internet of things icons This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K102 Introducing health and social care...What do we mean by digital health and social care?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain what...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...energy distribution, could be the target of terrorists or, in times of war, enemy nation states. On a less dramatic note, reasons why organisations need to devise effective network security strategies include the following: Security breaches can be very expensive in terms of business disruption and the financial losses that may result. Increasing volumes of sensitive...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...energy and bitterness guide his delivery of the lines. Like Antonio, Bosola is low-born, and therefore entirely dependent for material success on the patronage of his social betters. His role thus contributes significantly to an important aspect of the play: its examination of class relations in a highly stratified society. Bosola’s wit and satirical edge are throughout...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...energy for the atoms to move relative to each other. The quenched material is a disordered solid, known as an amorphous solid or glass (Figure 3). By contrast, slow cooling of a liquid allows atoms to arrange themselves into an ordered pattern, which may extend over a huge number of atoms. This kind of solid is called crystalline. So if a melt of a given composition (e.g....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs