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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...care support worker, museum guide or trustee. It also refers to the part we play in a given situation (as in the saying ‘playing devil’s advocate’). In practice, these two meanings of ‘role’ tend to run together, simply because many positions need to be improvised in different situations; they are often not set out in detail and fixed. The term ‘role-set’ is...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...care about the digital world, viewing it perhaps as a waste of time. Yet whether we are aware of it or not, digital information is flowing constantly around us. Consider a computer that is connected to the internet – the one you are using to study this unit, for example. This may be a computer you use at home, in a library or at work; you may use it on the move or in a...
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...care. Available at: https://thebms.org.uk/ publications/ bms-vision/ (Accessed: 27 February 2024). Burrell, J., Lyons, M. and Drummond, J. (2014) 3rd Age Woman Global Online Certification, Candidate Course Materials. Available at: https://www.burrelleducation.com (Accessed: 27 February 2024). Gluck, M. and Edgson, V. (2010) It Must be my Hormones: Getting your life on...
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...care about our communicative message and it doesn’t level the playing field for communicative collaboration. And so, the different voices in design simply spell inconsistent multiplicity that dilutes the communicative message. One might turn to Wikipedia as a testament to successful non-code-based collaboration, but Wikipedia enforces very strict and rational...
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...for the acceptance of our wide, wild tips. You may trust yourself implicitly to their care, but if you are going to Oxford do not trust the head porter who tells you to take the London and Northwestern, for then you will have to change four times on the way and at every junction personally see that your baggage is unladen and started anew to its destination....
Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...care for it; only a "benefit union." She kept the house for her family, and herself ready to answer every hail from the steamer; but in her mellow English content, which was not stupid or sodden, but clever and wise, it was as if it were she, rather than the archbishop, whose nature expressed itself in a motto on one of the palace walls, "Blessed be the Lord who loadeth...
Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...adult humans who lack the mental capacity to think about their own past as their own. Would they not be persons? Peter: I think they’re no longer persons. They may have been persons and we may choose to respect the wishes they had when they were persons. But there comes a time at least if the body outlives your intellectual capacities to such an extent that you can no...
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...adult population in the UK suffers from hypertension, a condition that is a major contributor to heart disease. So the first criterion is met: there is a medical condition that needs to be treated. The very significant proportion of the population with hypertension also indicates a commercial opportunity for drugs which provide improvements over existing therapy, so...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs