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28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...public events followed; conversations on progress within the peace process. [The full text of IRA statement from 28 July 2005. See paragraph below for full transcript.]IRA statement from 28 July, 2005. View the full-size version Text transcript Oglaigh na h-Eireann The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. This will take...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...public. In France, this influence was seen in the publication of the popular Série Noire crime fiction series. Initially, these were translations of American hard-boiled detective stories, but publishers soon realised that there was a market for original fiction in a similar style written by French authors. Reconstruction was accompanied by a long economic boom in...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...public relations), and compartmentalised thinking amongst both clients and their agencies, have acted as a barrier to a holistic approach to the consumer. Schultz, et al. (1994) point out that planning marketing communications as if the different ways of reaching the consumer exist in isolation is essentially an organisation-centred view of marketing. A customer-centred...
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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...many OU students working in health and social care as well as a large portfolio of courses teaching health and social care; so we would hope that our OU students connect with this programme and feel it represents something true to them." View our co-production Take our quiz on ethical decision-making Try a free course on healthcare Become a student at The Open University...
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Are selfies a terrible thing?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are selfies a terrible thing?

...health is spreading. There is concern that there may be a link between an apparent recent rise in mental health concerns in millennials and taking, editing and posting selfies online. [The Conversation] As a relatively recent phenomenon, most of us are still trying to get our heads around the potential impact of “selfie culture”. So when people aren’t worrying over...
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Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

...and hostile work and personal environments, rather than giving us all another job of training ourselves to be more resilient to these environments.[The Conversation] Rajvinder Samra, Lecturer in Health, The Open University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. More on Mental Health and Young People...
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How might COVID-19 affect cancer patients at different stages of their disease?
Science, Maths & Technology

How might COVID-19 affect cancer patients at different stages of their disease?

...health care resources in these unprecedented times. In general terms, clinicians will balance the benefits of the cancer treatment over the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection to decide whether a cancer treatment should go ahead or be postponed. Treatment risks regarding COVID-19 include: How the cancer treatments affect a patient´s immune system – patients are more at risk...
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No place like home: Prisons and homelessness
Society, Politics & Law

No place like home: Prisons and homelessness

...health. For many homeless people, life in prison is likely to exacerbate already existing personal troubles and health problems and does very little to address the existential crises generated by being without a home in wider society. Home is a place of intimacy, familiarity and meaning. It is a place of openness and is essential to the foundation, development and...
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