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Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...analysis to explore these locations in the present. By working through these articles you will discover that some interdependencies lead to uneven development and explore how this uneven development has both persisted and changed over time. When revisiting the study areas in 2015, we found that many of the key issues that were being debated 30 years ago - such as...
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Article 5 mins
Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...a post-exploitative affective order, we can give up our complicit role as killers and experience the deeper joy of peaceful coexistence with our fellow earthlings. This article originally appeared on DISCOVER SOCIETY under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence Further reading: Our Children and Other Animals (2014) by By Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart In-depth analysis: Meat Culture (2016)...
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DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...analysis of only small remnants of a person, such as teeth or fragments of bone, can be used to confirm who a victim was. It is not so easy to dispose of a body, and that evidence is left behind even when a corpse is subject to fire or acid. [CGI of double helix DNA] DNA profiling (sometimes called DNA fingerprinting) can be used to establish the identity of a suspect....
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Article 10 mins
Second-order differential equations
Science, Maths & Technology

Second-order differential equations

...analysis. If you are interested in statistics, you might like to try the free OpenLearn courses Modelling and estimation, Medical statistics and Bayesian statistics...Second-order differential equations: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...analysis. This analysis can help you deal with any weaknesses, which may hinder any opportunities and improve your successes. Considering and reviewing your current situation and planning a better future is a process, which should be repeated and revisited. It may be that you would find it useful to discuss your situation and ideas with friends, family, or even your...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...data across gender, for example, if there's coherence across nations for the effect size – how big a change occurs. For all of those things, depression certainly has been shown to be improved [as a result of] physical exercise. Prof. Adrian Taylor - Exercise Psychologist, Exeter University: Not always, and if you look at the more rigorous trials, a more recent review...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...data from Post-Polio Health International, n.d.; note that ‘n.d.’ indicates that no date was given). Figure 11 (a) Public health poster on TB prevention in the USA in 1941. (b) Children paralysed by polio in ‘iron lungs’ to help them breathe, USA in the 1950s. So what gave public health officials like Stewart such confidence that the threat from infectious...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...analysis of this event highlighted the ways in which participants described themselves in terms of shared social identities, as members of the St Pauls community. To be from St Pauls for some people meant being oppressed by institutions such as the police, being exploited by financial institutions and living in poverty within an affluent society. Accordingly, the police,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs