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Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...circulation perhaps? And clearly, a great deal of thought has gone into them. At the top of the first is a reproduction of The Sun’s own masthead –this version dripping in blood. Below that we are reminded of The Truth we do know as opposed to that claimed by The Sun – that 96 people died at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989. This is stark, clear, no room for...
Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...et al., 2015). The rapid advancement and acceptance of computer technology in everyday life, together with a gap in clinical services, has led to “the rise of e-therapies” (Stasiak et al., 2015, p. 2), such that computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (a type of computerised/e-therapy) has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical...
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...et al 2012). Of these hospital admissions the prevalence of pain is high, ranging from 59% to 94% (Kozlowski et al 2014; Linhares et al 2012) and of that number between 27% and 40% of them experience moderate to severe pain (Groenewald et al 2012). Jenkins et al (2019) who explored how to reduce the experience of pain in the immediate postoperative period, states that...
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentrations by the end of the century, while the assessment of McGlashan et al. (2012) is that the technologies ‘could be introduced relatively easily in today’s energy system’ and reduce current UK CO2 emissions by at least 10% by 2030...Session 5: Ways to engineer the climate: 4.2 Ocean fertilisation - Trees and grasses are, of...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...et al. (1981) as an alternative to the stressful major life events inventories because it has been recognised that hassles are irritating, frustrating demands that occur during everyday transactions with the environment, which can build up as accumulative stressors (Holm and Holroyd, 1992). These include 117 items about health, health of a family member, losing things,...
5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...circulates regularly, making sure all organs have the necessary supply of nutrients and oxygen to function well for longer. Interventions carried out with people living with dementia in and outside of nursing homes (including people with mild cognitive impairment) reported improvements in gait speed and muscle strengthening of the lower body (Frandin et al, 2009). Such...
Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...et al, 2015). These are no longer niche pursuits shrouded in mystery, with several high-risk sports gaining visibility through their increased broadcast and social media presence and their transition into mainstream competitive domains. For example, the Winter Olympics now includes several sports that previously only sat within the X Games programme, such as slopestyle...
Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...double-quotes, which are not printed themselves. In Python, a sequence of characters surrounded by double-quotes is called a string...Simple coding: 2.1 The art of failure - The following details are important once you start writing code. Computers are not as smart and accommodating as human readers: at the slightest spelling mistake (like pint instead of print) or...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs