Herds, Houses and the Crisis - Professor Andrew Oswald
Andrew is a Professor of Economics at Warwick. He is one of the pioneers of research into how economic conditions affect the psychology of wellbeing and is a member of the Stiglitz Commission on how to design a new measure of social wellbeing beyond GDP.
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Learning outcomes

By the end of this unit, you should be able to:

• describe accounting's primary objective;

• explain what is meant by inputs to and outputs from the accounting information system;

• explain the relationship between data, data processing, data summarisation and information;

• explain the difference between data and information;

• describe the five main characteristics of 'good' information;

• explain the link between
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Introduction

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RVC 38 - Endothelial Dysfunction and Cardiovascular Disease
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Introduction

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Author(s): The Open University

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Author(s): Wilson, Matt,Corkin, Suzanne

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