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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
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...energy, enthusiasm and commitment come into the evaluation? What would it take to improve your prospects of success, measured by whatever criterion is important to you? Can you act to improve your chances of success? The activity you have just engaged in is the first of several such activities. It is an example of a pattern of activities that constitute reflective...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Mathematics for science and technology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...energy, voltage, heat, magnetic field, properties of radioactive materials, indeed whatever you care to name) can be made up from combinations of just these seven base units. For instance, speed is measured in metres per second. In this course you will work mainly with the familiar base units of length, mass, time and temperature, and some of their combinations, but it is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 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
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...energy. In discussing and comparing two versions of the same song, you may have thought about calling one a cover version of the other. Covering a song is one way in which we can see the continuity of musical traditions: a specific song is set apart as having enough importance to be copied or imitated. In this case, the Rolling Stones heard the song sung by Muddy Waters...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Meiosis and mitosis
Science, Maths & Technology

Meiosis and mitosis

...energy. Similarly a human baby grows into an adult by digesting and metabolising food and drink. The parents in each case pass to their progeny, or offspring, the information and specification for building cells from materials around them. This information lies in the genetic material, or DNA, which is found in the chromosomes within the nucleus and which is transmitted...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs