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People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...physical strength influence sales and this requires understanding how such metrics are distributed. If I’m designing a vehicle’s interior I should like to know how much of the market I’m likely to exclude when I take decisions which might exclude large or small drivers. I could choose to build the interior around some sort of mean value but how much adjustment do I...
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...Physical abuse Sexual abuse Physical neglect Emotional neglect Parental separation Domestic violence Mental ill health Alcohol or drug misuse Household member incarcerated While we might intuitively recognise the potentially negative impact of any one of these factors, it is worth looking at why this impact occurs and how it can be understood. As Mulcahy outlines: Since...
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...physical world around us and some that relate to social or cultural aspects. Sometimes they might be positive (as above), but others might be negative: everybody knowing your business; difficult to access services like education or health care; poor roads and transport links, and lack of employment opportunities. Defining ‘rurality’ is by no means straightforward, but...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...physical phenomena under investigation. Superior results are usually difficult to achieve without years of high-level exposure to fields that comprise FEA technology (differential equations, numerical analysis, vector calculus, etc.). Expertise in such disciplines is required to both fully understand the requirements of any particular design circumstance, and to be able...
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...physical sense limited. Then there are those people who think that whether they're limited or not, the resources that we need now, particularly oil, and to a lesser extent gas, are controlled by a small number of countries who can exert political pressure and will indeed throttle the consuming countries. Then there are people who believe that it's inevitable that the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and revisited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes within the course – in order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses...
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...physical or mental health; worrying about your ability to cope; the challenges of dealing with behavioural changes in the person you care for; feeling anxious about what will happen if there is a change in your own circumstances (e.g. if you become ill or when you die); being worried about starting discussions about future care with the person you care for because it...
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...physical activity and increasing obesity within the population of the UK can be attributed to a reduction in cycling and walking and increased car use (the number of cars has doubled in 30 years) and increased television viewing (which has also doubled since the 1960s). Activity 13 Is the relationship between decreased physical activity, increased car ownership and...