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Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...system of change; capitalism is incapable of remaining static (Schumpeter, 1934). He describes the ‘perennial gales’ of ‘creative destruction’ unleashed by innovation. In 1912 Schumpeter made an early characterisation of innovation as any of five phenomena: the introduction of a new good the introduction of a new method of production the opening of a new market...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...systems approach to environmental decision making...Many of the decisions we make have implications for our environment, particularly those concerning natural resources and waste. Taking account of environmental factors in decision making can be both complex and challenging. This free course, Introducing environmental decision making, considers decisions in their broader...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...system. Histology is also used extensively in biomedical research, to identify the causes and possible treatments for disease. This type of research may take place in a hospital laboratory but it is more often carried out in universities, research institutes and pharmaceutical companies. The conventional view of a histopathologist is someone looking down a microscope....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...system existed for handing out necessities such as soap, clothes and shoes to prisoners, but such items were distributed, and even passed through the gratings by prisoners to more needy family members on the outside. Prisoners could purchase food to supplement their rations, but many did not have any money. The system of self government allowed to exist alongside official...
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Article 15 mins
London's 1818 public health crisis
History & The Arts

London's 1818 public health crisis

...system is adopted here, viz the transport of the patients in a litter belonging to the establishment, thereby preventing the use of coaches or sedan chairs; one of the means by which the contagion is circulated unchecked, and they hope the other hospitals will see the necessity of adopting some such arrangement. Indeed, from the indifference to contagion which seems to...
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Article 10 mins
60 second adventures in microgravity
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures in microgravity

...system changes. This makes bed rest a great (and ethnically acceptable) model for studying the effects of aging. Typical bed rest campaigns involve ‘patients’ lying down in bed for up to 6 months. They never sit up and lay with their held tilted downwards by about 6 degrees. While it might seem a great idea to stay in bed for 6 months, think about it for a minute....
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Video 10 mins
The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...system of Universal Credit (UC), which by 2018 will have replaced tax credits for most. And cuts to UC have not attracted the same level of opposition. As Patrick Wintour tweeted, these cuts were approved last week with just 12 MPs present. Cuts to universal credit passed in committee last Thursday. This is successor scheme to tax credits. Approx 12 MPs present. —...
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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...System. I imagine that looking at Venus could tell us something about the future of our own planet. Venus is very similar to Earth in many aspects. It’s the same size. It has the same mass and same density. It could have been Earth's twin. But during its history, something happened. We know that it lost its water but we don’t know how much water it had. For example,...
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Article 5 mins