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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...Health Organization, performs strongly on both variables. And in an ideal world, most clinics would use LED microscopy or GeneXpert. But these techniques are expensive and slow. A rat, which costs $6,500 to train, can rattle through 100 samples in 20 minutes. A GeneXpert device, which costs $17,000, takes around two hours to analyse a single sample. It costs about $1 to...
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The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...health warnings. We have deliberately simplified the debate by focusing on social science explanations which are at the extremes of a spectrum. A spectrum that runs from explanations that are overwhelmingly structural to explanations that are overwhelmingly agency driven. Most work in the social sciences falls between the two, trying to strike the right balance between...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...health, wellbeing, and safety, are hugely dependent on how much money they have. So, money is a straightforward case of something that is socially constructed. And, despite being socially constructed and arising out of human interests and actions, it is not dependent on how single individuals or small groups of individuals perceive it. If someone decides that the ten...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...mental health and development ensuring that children are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes. Every country has legislation and a protocol for child protection. Look for the relevant agencies in your country, for instance: Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...wellbeing and homeworking may be different since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some types of analysis are influenced by reflexivity, or the researcher’s role in what is studied and what conclusions are drawn. With any claims it is important to consider whether the researcher might be biased or influenced by a broader social, political and scientific (or even...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...mental states), then the notion that we make choices seems to drop out of the picture. We simply do what we are caused to do. One way of thinking about what Strawson is trying to do is to take him to be asking what difference the truth of determinism should make to us. Strawson contrasts the approach taken by the optimists (that everything would carry on regardless) with...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...mentality’ which can cause teams and individuals to stagnate allows you to be more agile, responding to the needs of internal customers better and working smarter with those colleagues on whose work your own is dependent expands your reach into diverse sources of potentially useful information and human resource enables initiatives to be taken – having a better grasp...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...mental health issues were vulnerable to suggestion. Instead, Gudjonsson demonstrated that potentially anyone might falsely confess due to factors such as the psychological drive to comply and particularly through being prone to ‘interrogative suggestibility’. That is, how affected by leading questions a suspect is and how much they alter their responses when pressure...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs