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Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...autonomic responses, whereas reptiles and birds respond behaviourally. Answer (a) False. Most small animals avoid rather than endure heat stress, but a few species, notably ground squirrels, can tolerate T b up to 42–43°C for short periods, so for them relaxed homeothermy is part of their strategy for maintaining activity during the day. Burrow-dwelling rodents can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...autonomous (and possibly even independent) relationship with Europe that went beyond the UK. Figure 3a Mrs Thatcher, then Prime Minister, strides across industrial wasteland in the 1980s with the promise of regeneration Figure 3b New industrial parks in the 21st Century But in England and Wales in a sense the vote was a rejection of the existing set of arrangements, even...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...autonomous care, health care, wearables, industry 4.0, manufacturing, agriculture, smart city, building management, retail, surveillance, smart home, smart 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...autonomous, You might also ask your academic referees to confirm that you have these skills. Quiz 4: Communication 1. Go through the list of skills and grade yourself, then read the reveal. Communication with audiences Write a Power Point presentation. Present to an audience in person. Present to an audience online. Communicate academic ideas to a non-academic audience....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...Système International d'Unités (International System of Units). Examples of SI units are the kilogram or tonne for mass and the litre for volume. This course uses SI units wherever possible, but on occasions it will be necessary (or just more convenient) to go along with the oil industry and quote values in barrels. In order to translate the units used in oil industry...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...autonomous beings in full control of our behaviour and we do, of course, have freedom of action, but how we make choices is influenced by how our minds have evolved. For example, why are we more scared of snakes than of fatal vehicle accidents that are so much the greater danger for most of us? Evolution by natural selection can also help us understand moral codes that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...autonomous’ self, or with my self ‘at its 20 best’; which is then contrasted with irrational impulse, uncontrolled desires, my ‘lower’ nature, the pursuit of immediate pleasures, my ‘empirical’ or ‘heteronomous’ self, swept by every gust of desire and passion, needing to be rigidly disciplined if it is ever to rise to the full height of its ‘real’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...autonomous movement to liberate Africa. Adwa Victory Day is still celebrated by Pan-Africanists around the world. Activity 1 The significance of Adwa Timing: This should take you 30 minutes Professor Raymond Jonas published The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (2011). Here he discusses how Menelik II defeated the Italians and what that meant. Watch the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs