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Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?
Money & Business

Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?

...Las Cuevas at the University of Cantabria. Another concern is pensions and whether annual increases in the state pension will continue to be paid after Brexit. These increments are not paid to those living outside of the EU in countries like Canada and Australia, whose state pension is frozen at the amount it was when they left the UK. It’s possible the same rules could...
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Are we about to be at the mercy of superslugs?
Nature & Environment

Are we about to be at the mercy of superslugs?

...La difference” between British and continental species becomes significant. Why British slugs are different When slugs colonised the UK after the last ice age, they found an island recently covered with ice sheets, where the biological diversity remained poorer than continental Europe. In these circumstances, the ability to self-fertilise was a good evolutionary...
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Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge
Languages

Harry Potter and the Translator’s Challenge

...la maledizione dell'erede) and in Spanish it’s translated as Harry Potter and the cursed legacy (Harry Potter y el legado maldito). [Harry potter translations images] Some of the translations from the Harry Potter series. Most translators kept the names of characters and places very close to the originals, but the Italian and Norwegian translators applied more...
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Concussion, identity loss, depression: boxing’s toughest opponent isn’t in the ring, it’s mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion, identity loss, depression: boxing’s toughest opponent isn’t in the ring, it’s mental health

...Las Vegas spotlights can be steep – and the fall steeper still. The gulf between where fighters start and where they end up can create a deep sense of dislocation. For working-class athletes, the pressure to stay strong, stoic and successful, even when struggling inside, can be overwhelming. This is intensified by boxing’s enduring culture of hyper-masculinity. The...
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Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...community. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University module B872 Creating and sustaining value...Understanding organisational value: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the main theories associated with creating organisational value explain the different ways to create value within and across...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...Communication and conversations about mental health: Introduction - Week 3 considers communications and conversations about mental health. Public attitudes to mental health have recently become more positive resulting in social barriers being broken down and conversations about mental health becoming more normalised. This means that adult learners might be familiar with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...communications; and allow you to use a digital filter to remove Gaussian noise from a signal...Electronics is fundamental to modern life. Take for example this free course, Electronic applications. An interactive website with videos and interactive software will show how electronic systems pervade everything we do; review some basic ideas of signal processing, control and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...community in the late 1980s and government officials concerned about it coming off the back off the stratospheric ozone depletion problem, conceived of solutions at the global level, there was a universal understanding that everyone had to act globally before we could solve the problem, it wasn’t just within the province of a few players to solve the climate change...
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