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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...math. And I thought, we could just about cover that if we sell enough tables. So, sort of, full of beans, I've said yeah, let's go for it, 210 grand. She said, well, it's not quite as simple as that. We can't just give you Bill Clinton's name to advertise, on the vague hope that you'll pay us the money. We don't really know who you are. So, if you want to do it, you have...
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...de Triomphe. [Described image] Figure 2 The unveiling of the cenotaph in Whitehall, 1920. In London, a cenotaph – which literally means ‘empty tomb’ – was also established in 1919. This was initially a temporary structure, but due to its popularity a permanent tomb was built and unveiled in 1920. Symbolically significant sites such as these, along with countless...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...de l'ame: on obsessive and harmonious passion’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 85, no. 4, p. 756...Session 3: Exploring identity and overtraining: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ben Oakley. It was first published in July 2019. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made...
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...maths, science or technology in ways that create practical, physical solutions. That way, when you call on your skills 'for real', you won't be surprised when your 'best' solution is ditched in favour of the one that has a quarter of the durability but costs half the money and can be made within the organisation. Instead of being depressed about this, understand and use...
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...de combat’ by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the...
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...De Silva, 2000, p. 10); nor as a true countermeasure against opportunism. This is because the type of conscience invoked in equity today is, as Margaret Halliwell maintains, preserved only ‘within the confines of technical learning’ in an ‘artificially ordered’ state (2004, p. 158). There is a further way to consider conscience in this context: that individualised...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...de Lappe, J., Kartupelis, J, Larkin, M. and Wilson, A. (2023a) The value and practice of relational care with older people: a research report by The Open University. Available at: https://doi.org/ 10.21954/ ou.ro.00015a63 (Accessed 30 January 2024). Gopinath, M., de Lappe, J., Kartupelis, J., Larkin, M. and Wilson, A. (2023b) The value and practice of relational care with...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...maths skills, particularly the use of ratios and the mathematical idea of probability...Meiosis and mitosis: 1 Meiosis and the life cycle - You will begin this course by learning about the type of nuclear division called meiosis. This process is intimately linked to the life cycle of organisms that reproduce sexually...Meiosis and mitosis: 1.1 Chromosomes and the life...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs