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Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...physical preparation of athletes: endurance. You will look at the physiological factors that underpin endurance and assess how endurance can be developed relative to performance in a range of sports...In this free course you will explore an important aspect of strength and conditioning which refers to the physical preparation of athletes: endurance. You will look at the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...physical database design. However, this physical stage is mainly concerned with producing a revised logical schema – that is, specifying SQL tables – so this terminology can be confusing. The tables of a logical schema may differ from the relational representation of the conceptual data model because of concerns with efficiency. To make design decisions that address...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...physical keyboard, there are three ways to produce these characters: Press Ctrl and an accent symbol, then the letter; the accent symbol is ‘ (apostrophe) : (colon) or ~ (tilde). This works in Microsoft Office (including Microsoft Word) on recent computers, but it may not work on older computers or with other applications. You also cannot produce ¿ or ¡ this way. Hold...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...physically in the same space. A speech, for example, could only be heard by those who were able to congregate within earshot of it. For information to be passed from generation to generation it had to be committed to memory and recited over and again down through the years. [Described image] Figure 3 The Lascaux Caves paintings in south west France are some of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...physical action is important – you don’t just use mouthwash on your teeth,” he says. But the BioBag was perfect for Linda Cowan, a nurse investigator at the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Hospital in Gainesville. She wanted to start a trial of maggot therapy and the bagged larvae were just more convenient for patients and their caregivers. With loose larvae, you...
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Article 5 mins
The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...physically attend the event. Clinton would not only attend a forum event, but would also hold a press conference specifically for Irish and Irish American journalists. Her interest in Ireland was taken as a given. Her need for Irish American support was considered vital, not least because Irish America was riven. Senator Edward Kennedy had declared his support for...
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Article 5 mins
A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...Physics. Q OK, so now I am going to ask you why you think…. Next what I would like to ask you is why you feel a global perspective is important in science teaching? T Yes, the way I do this to answer this question is something that I have done with two classes at Wellingford. The listeners can do this while I run it through, I get the class and I ask them to think of a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...physically in terms of moving round, exercising, having comfortable bedding, nor socially and psychologically in terms of mixing with the right kind of social groups suited for their species. Laying hens might be suffering for their entire lives, more than a year or so. Breeding sows might be in stalls also for pretty much their entire lives. And then you have to say,...
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