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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...physics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, but his promising career in robotics came to an end when, aged 26, he collided with a police vehicle. Since that accident, on 20 December 1999, Scott had been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state by a well-seasoned neurologist, Bryan Young, and in 2012 his diagnosis was confirmed by Owen’s team, again using traditional...
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Article 15 mins
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...physical activity needs a much lower air temperature for comfort than sitting in a chair. Figure 2 shows in very simplified form the ‘comfort zone’ for sedentary activity, in terms of temperature and humidity. [Described image] Figure 2 The ‘comfort zone’ in terms of temperature and humidity for sedentary activity and people’s subjective responses to various...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...physical prowess of Sherlock Holmes, their methods, moral frameworks, and social status in many ways make them the antithesis of earlier models of the investigating sleuth. One obvious advance into the territory of detective fiction, however, was the success of women authors in the post-war period. Alongside important male contemporaries – particularly G. K. Chesterton...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...physical capital, which includes environmental issues, attention to our precious, natural resources. So when we talk to companies, we want to make sure that their boards are paying attention to those global very important issues and that they are having oversight over those issues. So we ask boards and the companies that we meet with, for example, does your board have a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...physical document that participants sign, an electronic document which is emailed and which they sign electronically, or through an internet form, usually supplied as a link. For the Reproductive Bodylore project, we created several participant documents. Participant Materials include a ‘Friends & Family Information Sheet’ and a ‘Friends & Family Online Consent...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...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 will have a snack and then we will engage in some play...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Digital innovation in social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Digital innovation in social care and social work

...physical, emotional and social skills and so we might wonder how technology can support people in this – this is an important question to keep asking ourselves as we increasingly adopt technology in the home care environment. In the following activity, you will read a news article on how technology can change and improve social care. Activity 1 Weighing up the news The...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be retrieved and revisited. If you prefer, however, you can record your ideas in response boxes within the course – in order to do this, and to retrieve your responses, you will need to enrol on the course. This OpenLearn course is part of a collection of Open University short courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs