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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...system offers in terms of information from all components of the climate system. We have learnt in our recent assessment that the ocean is a fantastic integrator of climate signals and over 90 per cent of the energy absorbed by the earth's system is residing and integrated in the ocean. Clearly visible in the measurements, an ocean that actually integrates over the...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...system more generally. A steady stream of studies over the past decade has shown that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in a range of cognitive and social tasks from verbal and nonverbal tests to how well they can read other people. Greater empathy is thought to be because bilinguals are better at blocking out their own feelings and beliefs in order to concentrate on the...
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Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...system, and taking corrective action if things start to go wrong. Finally, and a key role in a modern operations management context, is process improvement. Operations managers drive much of an organisation's performance improvement over time. This can feed through to changes in how the organisation competes in a market. This framework acts as a good summary of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How does the human body fight a viral infection?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does the human body fight a viral infection?

...system that may determine the final outcome, in terms of recovery. In the early phase of a viral infection, a variety of immune defences helps to slow viral spread in order to buy time for the lymphocytes to proliferate. One of these defences is mediated by a group of signalling proteins called interferons (Figure 1). When a cell becomes infected by virus, the cell can...
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Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...system around the child. This theory is useful to illustrate the influences on children’s mental health. In Figure 8, the systems around the child have been separated out to illustrate how we can think about the factors within each system. [This is a diagram with a set of circles inside one another. In the smallest, inner circle are the words ‘Child Microsystem’. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Five pillars of ageing well
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five pillars of ageing well

...system and overall feeling of wellbeing and mobility. When we don’t drink enough: • Metabolic rate decreases – slowing further down metabolic processes in our body (how fast we process food, drugs/medication we are taking. • Our, already, ageing liver and kidneys suffer from insufficient hydration, processing drugs/medication is slowed down, and we are more likely...
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Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...system of units) known as SI. The SI unit of length, for example, is the metre (m), and the SI unit for time is the second (s). Example: What is 1000 metres in SI form? The prefix for one ‘thousand’ is ‘kilo’, so the answer is one kilometre (1 km in shortened form). One thousand metres, one kilometre and 1 km are alternative ways of describing the same thing....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...system or infectious agents at that time, the effect was to expose the recipient to a supposedly ‘weaker’ strain of the virus, which elicited a protective immune response against subsequent infection with a more virulent strain. Activity 1 What key features of the immune response does the practice of variolation demonstrate? Answer It shows the specificity of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs