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How can I cope with exam stress?
Education & Development

How can I cope with exam stress?

...manage your stress, you can make it through. Teena Clouston has some tips, and you may turn your papers over now...[An exam room] A little stress around exam time can be a good thing, as it motivates you to put in the work. But sometimes stress levels can get out of hand, particularly at the end of an academic year. When you become stressed, the sympathetic branch of the...
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Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
History & The Arts

Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...manages Brian Epstein to give her an audition. One was unsuccessful, but a second led to him offering her a contract. Her first (minor) hit was a cover of a Lennon-McCartney song (Love of the Loved), framed by a rather try-hard press release dubbing her the “bird in a beat-boys” world. But real recording success only came when the pace was slowed to allow her to drape...
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The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...Management We were promised a debate over economic issues, but what we got for the first hour was protracted sparring between TV interviewers posing gotcha questions hoping to egg on candidates to attack each other and candidates turning the tables by blaming the nation’s problems on a left-leaning media. That was a sorry performance from people on both sides of the...
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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...management that they place in doubt the safety culture of the entire industry.” The root causes for these mistakes included regulatory failures. Now, however, the Trump administration wants to increase domestic production by “reducing the regulatory burden on industry.” In my view, such a shift will put workers and the environment at risk, and ignores the painful...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...management inspectors towards the cleaners. I watched grown men crumble, reduced to tears as they were threatened with dismissal and told to repeat chores for no reason. The inspectors tried it with me, on one occasion calling me back into a train coach to mop a floor I had already done. I asked to be shown the problem but the inspector shouted at me to just do it. I...
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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...manage symptoms associated with ageing (e.g. overactive bladder) which can actually worsen cognitive function. Older people can also struggle to regulate their body temperature, so drugs that act on the brain can lead to unusually low body temperature even in the summer. The difficulty with identifying ADRs in older people is that they are often vague and non-specific....
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Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...managers who play a significant part in influencing a grieving employee’s experience of their workplace. The most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues struggle with what to say and how to behave when someone returns to work.Yet even the most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...manage matters for themselves. Watch the video below, which is a brief introduction to the Court of Protection (England and Wales). It is produced by a commercial law firm. It is not presented here as an endorsement of or recommendation for this firm. In the future the default position will be for public not private hearings. MARIA NICHOLAS What is the court of...
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