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What is Alzheimer's disease?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Alzheimer's disease?

...treatment to alleviate or reduce the damaging effects of this disease. Various treatments and preventive measures are being investigated, including the use of hormone replacement therapy, vaccines, and substances that aim to break down the protein deposits in the brain. Extracted from The Open University course Understanding Health. You might also be interested in:...
Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stay connected: supporting people with learning disabilities to use technology

...health and feel better in myself as well. Building belief in the potential for successful technology use Transcript. I have learnt to use my emails and Zoom and also learnt how to use my touch screen and how to go to different things on the telephone and choose what I need. Teaching people with learning disabilities how to use their learning technologies Transcript. We...
What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...health. Mr Townley, a respectable tradesman residing close to the church, complained of the practice adopted in the churchyard, which he said was most distressing to the sight and injurious to the health of the inhabitants of that crowded neighbourhood, and he hoped something would be done about it. Mr Tyars, the deputy of the ward, and who is also churchwarden, said that...
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...mental health difficulties make prison life particularly difficult and damaging for girls and young women. Compared to boys, they are three times more likely to have been victims of sexual abuse and twice as likely to have spent time in local authority care prior to incarceration. Girls and young women need an interpersonal focus to make their resettlement after custody...
The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...mental shortcuts that act to simplify, filter, and reduce the information load. Some of these shortcuts include: selecting confirmatory information, anchoring judgements on a few pieces of information (particularly the first piece of information), judging information based on how easy it is to imagine, and perceiving oneself to be less biased than others. Such cognitive...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...mentality is appropriate in all and every contexts – especially organizations ostensibly aimed at the public rather than the private good. A crucial part of any business is to treat its customers right. Importantly this means all its customers. However, this ideal is not always followed in practice. This is especially true for those who may experience social prejudice...
Causal loop diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Causal loop diagrams

...mental model behind links and identify the places where human choices are made. Guidelines Formulate the core problem and tell the story of the problem behaviour. Choose the key variables you want to work with and name them precisely. Use nouns or noun phrases rather than verbs (e.g. ‘orders shipped’ rather than ‘ship’). Be sure your variable fits into phrases,...
Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...mental development; it is a time when children experiment to make sense of the world. What role do digital technologies play in shaping early childhood experiences? Do they provide new opportunities for social awareness, such as establishing friendship groups and forming new identities, or do they, in fact, hinder children’s social development? Thinking - Childhood in...