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Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...think of what you post? Are you unsure about the value and benefits of posting to online learning forums? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this course is designed to support you! Transcript65...Session 1: Forums as you see them: Introduction - Welcome to Session 1 of this free course which aims to build your confidence in getting involved when using...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...system is the decimal system, where the position of a digit within the number determines whether it represents units, tens, hundreds, thousands etc. For example, the number 1375 means one thousand three hundred and seventy-five. The position of the 3, third from the right, means that it represents 3 hundreds. A thousand thousand, 1 000 000, is called a million and a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...think of them as recruiting the cells and defensive proteins of the innate immune system to join the attack. We conclude this tour of adaptive immunity by describing the T cells...Session 4: Immune defences against infectious diseases: 4.10 T cells in adaptive immunity - There are two types of T cells with different roles in adaptive immunity. The cytotoxic T cells...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!

...thinking to be more positive, optimistic and constructive, which then influences our emotions and behaviour, towards being more self-assured in an interview situation. Negative thoughts tend to just pop into our heads and can often be self-sabotaging; for example, ‘you will never get that job because...’, ‘you are not good enough...’. Often, we accept them as...
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Article 10 mins
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...system recognises and responds to an acute viral infection. DAVID MALE: The COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in 2020–2022, with waves of infection in different countries, produced by successive variants of the SARS-CoV2 virus. The rapid spread was made possible by the high infectivity of the virus and the fact that a substantial proportion of infected...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...think about it, you’ll do okay in the test – children do the best.” *** The first words ever uttered may have been as far back as 250,000 years ago, once our ancestors stood up on two legs and freed the ribcage from weight-bearing tasks, allowing fine nerve control of breathing and pitch to develop. And when humans had got one language, it wouldn’t have been long...
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Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
History & The Arts

Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic

...in the value of hard work into our everyday ethic. ...How does religion fit with the world of business? Perhaps more closely than you think. The sociologist and economist Max Weber argued that after the Reformation one form of Christian Protestantism, Calvinism, encouraged a different attitude to work, with far-reaching effects. Delve deeper into some of the themes raised...
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Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave
Society, Politics & Law

Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave

...think that the ability of EU migrants to claim welfare should be reduced. But it also extends to areas that Cameron has not attempted to renegotiate. For example, as many as 59% would want to stop people from other EU countries getting NHS treatment, a move that would undermine the reciprocal emergency access to another nation’s health service that all EU citizens...
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Article 5 mins