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Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...Social Policy, University of York The biggest surprise of this budget is that the most significant factor that affected it wasn’t mentioned at all. Not only did the chancellor not mention Brexit, it is not immediately obvious how any of his announcements connect directly to it either. I would have expected a boost to regional development or support for new businesses...
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Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...social comparison, envy, and depression. Current Opinion in Psychology, 9, 44-49. Chang, A. M., Aeschbach, D., Duffy, J. F., & Czeisler, C. A. (2015). Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(4), 1232-1237. Cheever, N. A., Rosen, L. D., Carrier, L....
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Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...social care workers. The course has been developed from the findings of Growing Older – Planning Ahead, an independent research project funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (NIHR129491). Interested in taking your learning further? You might find it helpful to explore the Open University’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...interact with is put up by average users, either in YouTube videos or blog posts or product reviews or social media postings. And it's also become a much more interactive place, where people are interacting with others, they're commenting, they're sharing, they're not just reading. So Facebook is not the only place you can do this, but it's the biggest, and it serves to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...interact to form the characteristic double helix structure of DNA. [Figure 2] Figure 2 A simplified model showing the double helix structure of DNA. Much as a protein is a string of amino acids, so each strand of the double helix is a string of building blocks, called nucleotides. Each nucleotide consists of three components: phosphate, a sugar molecule and a base (Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...interacts with a specific molecular site called an alpha receptor. This interaction results in contraction of the smooth muscle in the vessel wall, and hence constriction of the blood vessel itself. Substances like noradrenaline that bring about biochemical and pharmacological changes are called agonists. In hypertension, however, control is abnormal and blood pressure is...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...Social, which is the realm of everyday interaction – in the workplace, but also within families and neighbourhoods. Culture, which can mean through the arts, but also through traditions. Political, which can mean through the activity of political parties and activist groups, but also informally and more routinely, as people persuade one another of a certain view of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...social care. It enables us to build relationships with the people we care for and their families, develop relationships with people we work with and other professionals, provide clear information and carry out appropriate reporting and recording. From the time we get up to the time we go to sleep, we are communicating. We can have hundreds of moments in a day when we are...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs