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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...law allowed for any interested party to be present at the house where she was giving birth, or to send representatives (Justinian, Digest, XXV 4.1.10). At the actual birth, those who were concerned were allowed to send women into the room to witness what happened. These would include one midwife attending on behalf of the deceased man’s family and another representing...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...Law (Head of OpenLearn). We are grateful to Dawn Partner, Dale Harry and Sofia Maruzza for production assistance, Katie Meade for Rights and Debbie Roberts (engagevisually.co.uk) for creative assistance in developing the visual summaries for this course. Parts of the course were redeveloped from S826 Introduction to mental health science. Except for third party materials...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...Law, Human Resources Director at Envato: ‘There is always fear that collaboration is based on face-to-face contact but it turns out it is not! People can work on things together asynchronously and be just as effective!’ (Remote.co, no date). Online collaboration has challenges, but with effort from you as a hybrid leader, it can be made effective. You can ensure that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...law the way you speak to your colleagues. However, on social media, you write your message without necessarily knowing who will be reading it. All these readers will see the same message and make different assumptions about the sender. This connects to communication partly being about managing impressions or a performance provided for a particular audience. The difficulty...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...Law Lord, rides one, and that Ritchie's bike, No 7 from the production line, got him from South Kensington to Kew and back all through the blizzards. It is, of course, an expensive way of making a bike, this, and each one costs £195 by the time you have added VAT. But they are extremely slick little bikes, and with only 80 made so far, think of the rarity value. A...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...law (Equation (27)), HIPS yields and necks before failing. By contrast, rubbers exhibit long-range elasticity and fail only at many hundred per cent strain. [Figure 44] Figure 44 Tensile stress-strain curves for some rubbers and plastics So some plastics like HIPS yield, but others fracture in a brittle manner like polystyrene. Rubbers do not yield, but at high strains...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...law. For example, in a computer system there will be frequent but minor failures in disk accesses: these failures are normally overcome simply by retrying the access. Far more rarely, a disk’s read head will touch the delicate magnetic surface, and then the disk is effectively destroyed and access is impossible under any circumstances. The former occurs frequently but...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...law. This would include fraud for personal gain; such as the Ponzi scheme run by Bernard Madoff that cheated investers out of billions of dollars by lying about investment returns, or fraud to cover up mistakes - rather than for personal gain - as with the case of Nick Leeson, whose actions brought down Barings Bank in 1995. A similar, and more recent, example came in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs