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Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback
Health, Sports & Psychology

Giving and Receiving Powerful Feedback

...article. What about receiving feedback? Just as importantly, do we take the time to reflect on how we receive feedback? This is one of the most effective and powerful ways that people can understand and develop themselves. How can positive change take place if we don't know what needs to be developed? Here are some tips for receiving feedback. Do also have a think about...
Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics
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Sustainability at Christmas: Considering single use items, traditional plastics and bioplastics

...article explores how we can embrace sustainability this Christmas with bioplastics for gifts, decorations, and wrapping...[An Alternative Christmas Tree with the plastic gathered from the Ocean, Norfolk, England]Figure 1 An Alternative Christmas Tree with the plastic gathered from the Ocean, Norfolk, England (Kolforn, 2019) Christmas is a time of celebration, joy, and...
Sherry is not just for Christmas
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Sherry is not just for Christmas

...article and associated video explains the chemistry behind this tipple...I always remember my grandmother, who was otherwise teetotal, having a bottle of sherry ‘for medicinal’ purposes. At Christmas the annual bottle of sherry was bought by my parents along with the turkey and the Christmas tree. This was sweet sherry and for a long time I thought there was no other....
Everything you need to know about snowflakes
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Everything you need to know about snowflakes

...article...Snowflakes are formed when many tiny ice crystals suspended in clouds collide and stick together, a process called aggregation. The aggregates can become quite large, with Guinness World Records listing the world’s largest snowflake as 38 cm across, falling in January 1887 at Fort Keogh, Montana, though this is naturally difficult to verify! For aggregation to...
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
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Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...article about end of life care). In order to examine how people have been using the Ambitions framework, we undertook a multi-modal approach to explore how people understand, interpret, and implement the Ambitions. This approach acknowledges that implementation requires multiple steps that involve making sense of the guidance and accepts that people and organisations may...
Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...articles, Dr Jitka Vseteckova and Sonal Mehta look at strategies to support pharmacotherapy while ageing. Here Sonal explores ways in which we can achieve person-centred care, available to all...Find out more about The Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses We know that as we grow older, we are at higher risk of having multiple long-term health conditions, which...
Friction welding
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Friction welding

...article] Components to be welded are placed in friction welding machine. Surfaces to be welded can be turned, sawn or sheared as long as they are square. One component is then rotated whilst the other is held stationary. First friction stage [Images to demonstrate 'Friction welding' - see article] One component is advanced into pressure contact with the other. This...