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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...based practice, in relation to delivering effective pain management for children...This short course focuses on promoting the effective management of children’s acute pain in hospital. Effective pain management can be promoted by creating knowledgeable and confident practitioners through regular education and training which helps to reduce stress. This can be enhanced...
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...de novo, possibly from a compound in the literature. Increasingly, computer-based molecular graphics systems are being used in this process to provide suitable leads, by consideration of the shape and electronic properties of the receptor or enzyme involved, and so designing compounds from first principles. The development of doxazosin, as described in the video, can be...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...de dhuilleoga feileastraim is bitiúmin agus pic bheith cuimilte lena thóin ansan é a leagadh síos i measc na ngiolcach is coigeal na mban sí le taobh na habhann, féachaint n’fheadaraís cá dtabharfaidh an sruth é, féachaint, dála Mhaoise, an bhfóirfidh iníon Fharoinn? The Language Issue I place my hope on the water in this little boat of the language, the...
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...Based on the reflections of the role of theory in everyday practice considered so far in Section 1, it is possible to conclude that no practice is ‘theory-free’. Even if you are not aware of the theories you are drawing on moment to moment as you go about your daily practice, the ways in which you work are, in fact, shaped by theory. Not only that, but theories –...
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...based on an object-oriented approach. It promotes a set of best practices, namely that development should be organised in short time-boxed iterations, and that it should be adaptive to accommodate inevitable change. Time boxing means that a (usually) short fixed period of time is devoted to each iteration, e.g. three to four weeks. Consequently, only a small set of...
Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...base of the support to help the body's stability. The body is more stable when the centre of gravity is lower and the base of support larger. However, dancers usually want to balance on precariously small supports, such as the ball of one foot, and so the body will be less stable in this position. This is why body awareness is crucial. When we are maintaining a balanced...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...based on this book. Professor Aaron Sloman's out of print book is now online - The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, science and models of mind Combining Artificial Neural Nets: Ensemble and Modular Multinet Systems, Amanda Sharkey (Ed), Springer-Verlag, London (1999), ISBN 1-85233-004-X. Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing, Mind, 1950....
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...fonts so as to enhance their product’s appeal. For example, in Nepal a typing tutor based on the traditional tale The Ramayana was commissioned by a pioneering local IT company, written by a local expert, then shamelessly copied by local distributors. Thus fonts for local languages and software that works in those languages using those fonts have produced little income for their originators – suggesting that such work is ......
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs