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How can I cope with exam stress
Education & Development

How can I cope with exam stress

...you in your life. This is important, as research has shown that this is essential to your health and well-being. And it will also help you to feel more balanced and calm during those exams and in the run up to results day. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in......
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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...health policy. Instead, it serves as guidance for local action to be used by a range of organisations from NHS services, hospices, charities and local authorities. Eight foundations underpin the framework, as outlined in the image below, in order to help people realise the ambitions. These foundations are a combination of infrastructure, actions, and approaches to service...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...health, demography, regime type and (yes) the power of the state. The days when one could claim that the situation of women is a “small bore” issue in foreign policy should now be emphatically over. When Clinton was secretary of state, the global empowerment of women was enshrined as a key foreign policy objective. While there were failures as well as successes in...
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...health and education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income, goods and services consumption and infrastructure emissions as well as the usual energy, food and transport footprints. For this article we are...
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EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...public goods and services their citizens need. Environmental policy: Supporters of EU membership identify a range of areas, from carbon limitations to biodiversity protection, in which common policies have made the UK greener. Opponents identify comparably significant ways in which EU policies do environmental damage, deliberately or inadvertently. Agricultural policy:...
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The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...public service. He was appointed to the United States Senate in 1980 to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become Secretary of State. He was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1982 in a stunning come-from-behind victory. After trailing in public opinion polls by 36 points, Senator Mitchell rallied to win the election, receiving...
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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

...health issues, crying at the hands of two inspectors who were bullying and threatening to sack him. They then yelled at me to leave or face the sack too. I refused; tempers frayed – by this time we were all involved. Someone tried to calm the cleaner and I left and called control, insisting they come down to sort this out. They arrived 15 minutes later, took statements...
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5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...Health and Wellbeing courses As the Dementia UK report indicates, severity of dementia is also linked to increasing age. There are therefore serious implications for quality of life (QL) and care of those living with dementia in long term facilities. Dementia is characterized by a range of cognitive impairments such as difficulty in speaking, communicating and...
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