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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...table, lit up. Cancer can occur at any age. Among children under the age of 19, tumours in the brain and central nervous system are the most common cancers. Every year, in the USA alone, approximately 1 in 285 children – nearly 16,000 in total – will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday, and more than a quarter of them will have been diagnosed with a...
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More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...table. And now anybody can do it with a computer you can have just a couple of hundred quid. So we’ve just got far more ability to crunch numbers, far more access to the numbers, and that definitely makes a difference. That empowers people who know a little bit about how to deal with numbers. KEVIN MCCONWAY: And linking that back to some things you were saying before,...
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People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...table identifying: the country from which the data was obtained the sex of the participants from whom the data were obtained four columns of figures describing the mean, standard deviation and the 5th and 95th percentiles the source of the survey – this turns out to be vital since some of the data is taken from quite narrow sections of the population. The main part of...
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Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...table like this in your own notes to help you record the main features of each chapter. For example, CHAPTER DATE LOCATION EVENTS PAINTINGS 1 ‘Milan’ 2 ‘Rome 1592’ 3 ‘Flowers and Fruit’ … and so on. In her book, how does Langdon combine Caravaggio's life with his work? Which features of the book remind you of the traditional structure of artists'...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...de raip ‘s de spruidhlich catha. An robh an gille air an dream a mhab na h-Iudhaich ‘s na Comunnaich, no air an dream bu mhotha, dhiubh-san a threorakheadh bho thoiseach al gun deoin gu buaireadh agus bruaillean cuthaich gach blair air sgath uachdaran? Ge b'e a dheoin-san no a chas, a neoichiontas no mhiorun, cha do nochd e toileachadh ‘na bhas fo Dhruim...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...are linked to inconsistent, unresponsive parenting (Belsky, 1999; de Wolff and van IJzendoorn, 1997). Although the associations with disorganised (Type D) attachments are less well established, Type D attachments are more common among abused and maltreated infants, and among infants exposed to other pathological caregiving environments (Lyons-Ruth and Jacobvitz, 1999; Teti et al., 1995), and may be consequences of ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...de-stigmatise the menopause, raise awareness of its impact and remove the embarrassment often experienced when people talk about it (Newson, 2019)...Session 1: What are we are talking about?: 5 Factors affecting the severity of the menopause - On average the menopause starts aged 51; however, the perimenopause that is described as ‘the change before the change’,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...Table 1 ZERO LOW MEDIUM HIGH Breaking the law Investing in volatile countries, markets or financial products New market technologies Safety of employees Recruiting and retaining talented people Environmental harm Bringing new products to market Safety of products Cyber security Protecting key facilities from natural disaster Changes to regulations, tariffs or access to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs