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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...health. [This is a map of Guyana] Map showing the location of Guyana At 18, Betty entered the world of work, beginning in the Department of Transport and Harbours before joining the civil service in the Housing and Planning Authority. Here she took on the role of Women’s Housing Officer, interviewing families, and investigating and recording the conditions in the slum...
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Medical statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Medical statistics

...health of populations. In this extract you will learn about some of the statistical methods used in epidemiology and more widely in medical statistics. The focus will be on statistical ideas, analysis of data and interpretation of results; this is typical of M249. It is relatively self-contained and should be reasonably easy to understand for someone with a good knowledge...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...health centre to illustrate this point. In this example, the health centre uses a computerised booking system and the patient may phone or visit the health centre to make an appointment. Therefore, the system includes a patient, a receptionist, a doctor, and a computerised booking system. The example shown in Figure 1 shows how this system could be represented using a...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury
Society, Politics & Law

Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury

...mental state of President Trump. Here, Wolff’s relationship with Steve Bannon offers an illuminating and, one would hope, honest take – especially given Bannon’s political fallout with both Trump and the Mercer family. There seems nowhere else to start other than Wolff’s now infamous ‘Author’s Note’ at the beginning of the book. In it, Wolff discusses the...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...mental violence against women at its centre. At the same time, the commercial success of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, released during the Covid-19 pandemic, seemed to indicate a yearning among many readers for the cosy crime fiction of an earlier age. The next twists in the ongoing plot of European crime fiction remain a mystery. Find out more If you...
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Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...mental pressures in their respective careers (p.9). However, it was not so much the violence of the stories that intrigued Gallagher as the psychological aspects – something that his brother Dónal emphasised in a 2002 interview: He loved the intelligence of the criminal […] The human intelligence. The human psyche. The deviousness of the mind. As opposed to being...
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An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...mental health. Watch the following TED Talk on the divide between hearing and deaf worlds and answer the following questions. a.Think about whether the parents, the school and the former partner of the described deaf girl made attempts at bridging. Why do you think this did not work? Discussion You might argue that the people in the life of the deaf girl in the story are...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...health risks (particularly its effect on the mental development of young children), leaded fuels have been phased out in most developed countries and have been banned in the EU since 2000. The ban is now almost worldwide. European fuel specifications have a low sulfur content. This has been necessary not just to reduce acid pollution emissions, but also to prevent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs