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Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...analysis and operational research for solving these models by computer. Explaining how and when modelling and numerical techniques can be applied, the course covers solutions of non-linear equations; systems of linear and non-linear equations and mathematical modelling; linear and integer programming; and non-linear optimization for unconstrained and constrained...
Dynamics
Science, Maths & Technology

Dynamics

...analysis. If you are interested in statistics, you might like to try the free OpenLearn courses Modelling and estimation, Medical statistics and Bayesian statistics...Dynamics: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...analysis’, The Lancet, 386, pp. 1659–1671. King, J. (ed.) (2022), Art therapy, trauma, and neuroscience: theoretical and practical perspectives. Routledge. Levine, E. and Levine, S.K. (2011) Art in action: expressive arts therapy and social change. Jessica Kingsley. Malchiodi, C.A. (2020) Trauma and expressive arts therapy: brain, body, and imagination in the healing...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...data from different countries highlighting the growing problem of antibiotic resistance worldwide. You will be introduced to factors, covered in more detail later in the course, that have contributed to this problem. Finally, you will listen to scientists discussing the potential threat to modern medicine of antibiotic resistance and will begin to form your own opinion...
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...data that's available. This data's from all over the world - countries spend billions of dollars investing in this kind of research. Now, I've circled the places where I've been. Well, by design, if I wanted to have a heart attack I'd been in the right places. Right? So, how many people are in the white? How many people in the room have spent the majority of their life in...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...analysis suggesting the community patrols have overwhelming support in the town. Opinion polls in Hamilton, including one run by a local newspaper, revealed more than 90 per cent backing for the curfew, although more than half of all children thought police did not understand youngsters and stopped them for no reason. Yesterday, the Scottish Office urged the other seven...
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...analysis of the molecular make up, the course moves on to look at the importance of protein and how they are digested and absorbed...This free course, Gene testing, looks at three different uses of genetic testing: pre-natal diagnosis, childhood testing and adult testing. Such tests provide genetic information in the form of a predictive diagnosis, and as such are...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...analysis process is to understand the science and theory behind a particular strategy and its impact. The next stage of critical analysis would be to analyse the supporting research. In the next section we will look at some examples of recovery strategies used by elite athletes and will begin to critically examine how effective these strategies are...Recovery strategies...