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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...based on principles originating in Buddhist practises, amongst other things, and is often achieved through yoga, meditation, and breathing techniques. However, mindfulness is now recognised as something that can be of benefit, regardless of whether or not you have spiritual or religious beliefs. One way in which we can practise mindfulness is by setting aside time to sit...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...based on one 24 hour period The label of the graph provides the additional information that the figures are based on one 24 hour period (i.e. one particular day). When reading a chart such as a bar chart or pie chart, it is important to notice how the different elements are labelled. Here, the vertical axis shows the percentage ‘achieving 5 A DAY’. The height of each...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...based on three key determinants: A time preference rate. This is the return required to persuade investors to give up the ability to use their cash for consumption today in favour of investing the cash to provide a return over a future time period. An element for expected inflation. This is required to ensure that the purchasing value of the money invested keeps pace with...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...based materials and a range of activities to help as an introductory guide to mastering research projects. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course W800 The law dissertation...Introducing research in law and beyond: Learning outcomes - After studying this free course, you should be able to: understand how to prepare to undertake a piece...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What made Muhammad Ali "The Greatest"?

...Las Vegas. A gate of nearly 25,000 had paid $5,766,125, a record in its day. “It wasn’t a fight; it was an execution,” wrote Ali’s biographer Thomas Hauser. After ten sickeningly one-sided rounds, Ali’s trainer Angelo Dundee signalled Ali’s retirement. Ali’s aide and confidante Bundini Brown pleaded: “One more round.” But, Dundee snapped back: “Fuck...
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Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...based on the decay of radioactive isotopes), cannot be applied in the outer Solar System. This is because we can have no expectation that the Moon (1 AU from the Sun) suffered the same rate of impact bombardment as a satellite of Jupiter (5 AU from the Sun) or a satellite of Saturn at a range of nearly 10 AU. Indeed, when the size-frequency distributions of craters on the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...des Neiges (dormant) and Piton de la Fournaise (still active). The island is characterised by ultramafic to mafic alkaline eruptive sequences, typical of ‘hot spot’ volcanic sequences. Is this common knowledge or does it need to be referenced? Answer The information cited in this statement could be obtained from a number of different sources, with the second sentence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?
Society, Politics & Law

How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?

...de-emphasized. Bridges are exposed settings for walkers and cyclists, placed cheek by jowl with vehicles. Whose responsibility was it to consider in a timely way – after Nice and Berlin – what measures are needed to protect people here? Policing agencies provide intelligence and protective personnel, but they don’t install highway barriers – that is not their...
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