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What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...health had been deteriorating for several years before the ill-advised Holmes fight and the savaging he took repulsed even his sternest critics. Ali the “fearsome warrior,” as Hauser calls him, would disappear, replaced by a “benevolent monarch and ultimately to a benign venerated figure”. And now that venerated figure has died, aged 74. Muhammad Ali was also a...
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Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...health, capabilities and performance. The process of analysing data collected from various devices can take a huge amount of time, especially when dealing with high-level athletes that require a large amount of data collection. This process is very labour-intensive and can mostly only be done well at the highest levels of sport where full-time data scientists can be...
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Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...health, they can pass the virus on to others who may be less able to withstand its pathological effects. So the question of whether the risks of reintroducing smallpox vaccination outweigh the possible benefits depends on estimates of the potential risk of a bioterrorist attack. At the time of writing (2003) the threat is considered to be so low that vaccination has only...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...wellbeing framework Getting it Right for Every Child (Scottish Government, 2008) onto a statutory footing. The introduction of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 was a significant milestone in protecting children in Northern Ireland. Globally, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 (UNCRC) was created with the aim of encouraging governments...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...mental and physical abilities so they can reach their full potential as adults. The right to food means that every child must have enough healthy food so they have strong and healthy bodies. The right to health means that children must be allowed to grow in a safe, clean environment so they can become healthy adults. They must be cared for when they're sick or injured....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...health, education and wellbeing of people living in Caerphilly, please? JULIE JAMES Local authorities will receive £4.2 billion of general funding to spend on services in 2019/20, and core funding will increase by 0.2% on a like-for-like basis compared to 2018/19, and in line with our programme for government commitment to provide funding for a settlement floor, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...mental health. When people are feeling vulnerable, they do revert to their mother tongue, and even people who are intelligent, are very used to speaking their second language, being English, in everyday work life, even to their partners, when they’re ill, there is a recognised situation where people revert to their mother tongue, where they feel more comfortable. When...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...health must be one of the best health reports ever - but does this mean we can scoff all of Thorton's? Chocolate carries a lot of calories in a small bar, which makes it a high energy food and really good for polar explorers. But what about us mere mortals? Dr Claire Turner explains: "The Cochrane Group report in 2012 showed that consuming an amount of up to 100g of dark...
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