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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...et al, 2015). These are no longer niche pursuits shrouded in mystery, with several high-risk sports gaining visibility through their increased broadcast and social media presence and their transition into mainstream competitive domains. For example, the Winter Olympics now includes several sports that previously only sat within the X Games programme, such as slopestyle...
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Article 5 mins
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...institutions to manage their liquidity...Liquidity management: 1 Liquidity management - The following sections introduce and define liquidity risk, providing a series of explanatory contexts and scenarios to outline the strategies that organisations use to try and effectively manage it. A short case study towards the end of these sections illustrates some of the problems...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...institutions, practices and discourses order (or try to order) our lives in various ways. The state is not the only mechanism that contributes to social order. Social order is produced and reinforced in various ways, but the state does provide an institutional political order that is one important part of the social order it (ideally) produces. In fact, we could argue...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Green Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Green Brexit?

...institutions naturally seek compromise and soft deals with those corporate powers that are wrecking the planet. Many of the EU attempts to control international capital are flawed because those institutions naturally seek compromise and soft deals with those corporate powers that are wrecking the planet. JS: EU law has been used to lobby the UK government over issues...
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Article 10 mins
Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...institutional delivery’) are one of the crucial ways of achieving this target in several low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Countries that already had lower levels of institutional delivery prior to COVID-19 are going to be further impacted. For example, only 4 in 10 women in Nigeria, 5 in 10 in Mozambique and 6 in 10 in Tanzania and Kenya reported institutional...
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Article 15 mins
The biology of loving our pets
Science, Maths & Technology

The biology of loving our pets

...et al., 2015)! [Rabbit looking at the camera sat next to a ball and a cuddly toy.]Oxytocin does many things in the body, including reducing our cortisol and adrenaline levels and activating the vagus nerve, all of which help us to feel calmer and more relaxed. It also triggers the release of dopamine, which activates the pleasure and reward centre of the brain. This is...
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Learning for organizational development
Money & Business

Learning for organizational development

...Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)’s intermediate level courses in learning and development Shows how to link L&D to individual performance and organisational success You can read Eileen’s blog posts on how online learning can support virtual working and on blending online and face to face learning: How online learning supports virtual working Online...
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Article 5 mins
What is the EU? - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Society, Politics & Law

What is the EU? - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...institutions, their relationships to national governments, and the main ways that both are (mis)understood by the public. They will also consider the role of its democratic deficit in provoking demands for re-expanding member states’ decision-making power, and the extent to which a European mentality has replaced or reinforced loyalty to the nation-state. Will Brexit...
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Video 45 mins