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Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...Health Organization (WHO, 2002), about 1.7 million people die each year due to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene. In this text we consider in outline the major sources of pollution and the effect that pollutants have on the aquatic environment. The activities located throughout the text will help you to review and remember what you have read. This OpenLearn course is...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...Health and Social Care 4.2.3 Maths, Computing and Technology 4.2.4 Science 4.2.5 Social Sciences Feel free to focus only the subject areas you are interested in studying, or are studying...Developing good academic practice: 4.2.1 Arts - You have been advised that there is no need to provide a reference for a piece of factual information that is deemed to be common...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Who was Mary Magdalene?
History & The Arts

Who was Mary Magdalene?

...mental illness. She wasn’t the only woman with a similar stigma; she is listed alongside Joanna and Susanna with similar issues in Luke 8:1-3. It seems possible that due to their physical condition these women may have been social outcasts, which could explain why they followed Jesus after some kind of healing experience, embracing his message of hope, and acceptance....
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Article 5 mins
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...mentality in the group process may assume paranoid characteristics, even leading the group to consider unethical and illegal means of protecting itself. Social group processes such as ingroup and outgroup differentiation can be applied to the small group functioning at the heart of government, but also to the wider debates around Brexit in the media. At its simplest...
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Article 10 mins
How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...mentality since a young age.” Finally, Raducanu’s parents seem to stay in the background at her events and are not recognisable. Parental behaviour around training and competition can determine whether a young athlete has a positive sporting experience. For example, warm and supportive parents have been associated with higher levels of sport competence, self-esteem...
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Article 5 mins
Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sub-concussions in women’s football: what can be done to protect the brains of footballers?

...mental illness. She donated her brain to medical research and while there was no evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) that leads to dementia, there was evidence of degradation of white matter in her brain, despite Jacinta only ever suffering one concussion during her career. It is being increasingly acknowledged that female athletes in contact sports are...
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Article 10 hrs
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...mental construction that expresses the basic experience of colonial domination and pervades the more important dimensions of global power, including its specific rationality: Eurocentrism…. Therefore, the model of power that is globally hegemonic today presupposes an element of coloniality (Quijano, 2000: 536; my emphasis). Coloniality and the management curriculum A...
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Video 40 mins
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...mental health, Helen King from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, and Julie Johnson a child, adolescent and family psychotherapist. Maybe I could just start by asking you all what you describe as the most radical impact the internet has had on children in the past ten years? HELEN KING The access to social networking is the ability to communicate outside...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs