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Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...de Haan discusses the relationship between children and happiness...[Happiness pictured by 6 year-old Piers from Silverstone Infants School] What makes children happy? ‘That’s easy,' you might say, ‘a new toy, an ice cream or a trip to the amusement park.’ While these things bring an immediate smile to many children’s faces, they are probably not the things that...
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Article 10 mins
On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...de Jong, Umut Erel and Olga Jurasz. Olga: Alia what inspired you to make On a Wing and a Prayer? Alia: I had been asked by Goldsmiths’ Methods Lab to respond to John Berger’s book A Seventh Man, which is a portrait of guest workers in the European Union in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. There is a point in the book where Berger describes the building of a tunnel...
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Article 5 mins
Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...De-la-Calle-Durán and Rodríguez-Sánchez’s (2021) review of 148 employee engagement and wellbeing studies, identified five main drivers of engagement that also lead to wellbeing, within the current pandemic context: conciliation, cultivation, confidence, compensation, and communication. Questioning current practices, and asking employees what each of these mean to...
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Article 10 mins
Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...DE ANGELIS, M. H. & COTMAN, S. L. 2012. Large-scale phenotyping of an accurate genetic mouse model of JNCL identifies novel early pathology outside the central nervous system. PLoS One, 7, e38310. WAGER, K., ZDEBIK, A. A., FU, S., COOPER, J. D., HARVEY, R. J. & RUSSELL, C. 2016. Neurodegeneration and Epilepsy in a Zebrafish Model of CLN3 Disease (Batten Disease). PLoS...
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Article 10 mins
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...class, because she is too young to attend dance classes, her physical development is not at the right stage, and this activity is not offered till the age of three years, but she really enjoys dancing. After the nap, we don’t know what may happen today, but normally they have a snack, although today Giorgia has already had some milk so she might not want anything. Viola...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...de Baryshe and Ramsay, 1989)...Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach: 2.2 Children's violence - There has been a great deal of work done by psychologists on violence and aggression in children, looking at whether this is part of a normal and natural developmental process or whether it is pathological. Cole and Cole define...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...de Barcelona, Spain, has been conducting research for nearly two decades on the acquisition of translation competence, defined as ‘the underlying system of knowledge needed to translate’ (PACTE, 2003, p. 16). They started by describing the characteristics that define the professional translator and then developed a model for their acquisition. The aim was to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...variable number of summands cap r sub one plus cap r sub two plus ellipsis plus cap r sub n the total resistance cap r of n resistors in parallel is given by cap r equals one divided by sum with variable number of summands one divided by cap r sub one plus one divided by cap r sub two plus ellipsis plus one divided by cap r sub n SAQ 2 In Figure 11, let cap r sub one...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs