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An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...class.). Minorities everywhere that engage in different practices to the majority are often discriminated against on the basis of culture: in such cases, their ethnicity, religion or dress codes are depicted as conflicting with or rejecting ‘our’ culture...Week 1: Thinking about culture and communication: 3 Culture as a verb - All of the prior three examples have...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...de Janeiro, with 1 million people attending over the extended holiday weekend. The carnival has about 40,000 volunteers helping out and usually about 9,000 police. The carnival creates a huge surge in demand for both private and public services. In a normal year about 270 licensed food, drink and merchandise stalls temporarily appear. The organisers also provide support...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...classes of problem which lead to loss through a joint (referred to as insertion loss): Those resulting from differences between two fibres being joined, possibly because of imperfections in the fibres (variations in core or cladding refractive indices, core or cladding diameters, ellipticity, eccentricity of core and cladding), see Figure 9. Those resulting from alignment...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...class differences, misogyny, stereotypes and outdated views. I felt a little shocked and wondered if it was the right sort of book to be reading to my daughter. It has pictures and a small boy as a protagonist. It was originally published as a book for children by an author considered to be a children’s writer. The writing and structure is simple. There are sections of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...de Janeiro’, includes references to Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Apollo, Hercules, Artemis, Hephaestus and Zeus; and modern programmes such as the Rio 2016 Culture Festival remind us of Classical associations between sport, poetry, music, and prose composition. This course highlights the similarities and differences between our modern Games and the Ancient...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...de-stigmatise the menopause, raise awareness of its impact and remove the embarrassment often experienced when people talk about it (Newson, 2019)...Session 1: What are we are talking about?: 5 Factors affecting the severity of the menopause - On average the menopause starts aged 51; however, the perimenopause that is described as ‘the change before the change’,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...class of drugs for treating cancer, known as PARP inhibitors. PARP – or poly-ADP ribose polymerase, to give it its full name – is a protein found in all our cells, and forms part of this backup repair system. It is particularly critical in cancer cells with faults in genes called BRCA1 or BRCA2, which play an important role in gluing together breaks in DNA. Errors in...
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Article 5 mins
Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...class, peace-trained soldiery had been expended, and the morale of its army shaken. The campaign had stretched its limited resources almost to breaking point. Thereafter its High Command changed tactics – no longer holding ground at all costs, and adopting the ‘Hindenburg Line’ (September 1916), so conceding much territory in order to shorten the front. The effect...
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Article 10 mins