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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

...Class of people exercising] Physical exercise is one way that helps us to prevent fast deterioration of cognitive and physical functions. Decline in all functions is a normal part of ageing but when pathological processes are already present (e.g. dementia) the decline in functions is accelerated and becomes steeper and faster. Exercising regularly has enormous preventive...
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Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...classes in technical drawing, woodwork, or metalwork, as these were deemed to be boys’ subjects, so Ann was led down the route of learning domestic and commercial skills. When thinking about her working future, Ann’s Careers Adviser told her what they told all the lassies – that she should go and get a job in a shop. Ann received her Leavers’ Certificate, given to...
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Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...Class 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 or 100000, with Class 1 the cleanest; Beagle 2’s Aseptic Assembly Facility on the Open University campus was a Class 1. The Class number (and today’s ISO classification) was determined by the number of airborne particles between 0.1 to 10 μm in one m3 of air (Table 6). These particles could be aerosols, dust, cells, or spores. TABLE 6...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
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
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...classes, and I thought it safer to follow the King to the races lest I should hear worse things of them. III The races were some miles away, and when we got to the tracks we did not find their keeping very different from that of the Saratoga tracks, although the crowd was both smarter and shabbier, and it had got to the place through a town of tents and sheds, and a...
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Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...classed as even more confused or demented than they actually are. And there have been occasions when people have been admitted to psychiatric institutions because people didn’t understand that they actually couldn’t speak English because of a condition they had. So, it’s important for those three groups in particular, but it’s important to realise that as Welsh...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...feedback comments have not been included for all the activities. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E809 Frameworks for critical practice with children and young people...Working with diversity in services for children and young people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...de-valued: care work, cleaning, nursing, to be re-labelled as ‘essential’ during the pandemic. You will explore the interaction of theoretical lenses and the practical work of artists, through the intersectional feminist exhibition ‘This Is Essential Work’ which explores different aspects of domestic care work during the pandemic. Essential for what? ‘‘The...
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