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The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...World medals, she described this bronze as the most meaningful because it symbolised her focus on mental health and perseverance. The divergent discussion surrounding Biles sheds light on the disparities in attitudes toward athlete mental health, not only within the highly pressurised world of elite sport, but also more broadly within society. How did social media frame...
Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...World Cup. Manchester City won the 1969 FA Cup with a team of eleven English players and an English manager. In 2019 the League Cup winning team featured just two Englishmen and was managed by former Spanish international, Pep Guardiola. Table 1 shows the nationalities of the players of the two successful teams and highlights the global composition of Manchester City’s...
Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...world is dying. We live in an age where it is necessary to increase awareness and act on issues rapidly. Yet it is deemed inappropriate to generate awareness of fundamental problems in production because to do so would be deemed too political. It is difficult to see what makes raising awareness of scandalous production models political, other than seeing that politics has...
From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...world problems across healthcare, environmental science and beyond by combining prior knowledge with newly acquired data...Find out more about The Open University's Statistics courses and qualifications. In statistics, analysis is often presented as beginning with data. In practice, this is rarely true. Before any data is collected, there are already expectations about...
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...world. It has been fostered in part by the SF world, who have insisted that its kind of reading is Different” (Aldiss and Wingrove 15). Even in the twenty-first century, both science fiction critics and authors continue to reinforce this generalization. A famous example is Margaret Atwood’s claim that her novels The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003)...
The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...world, and resolved from that moment to follow him: he was the first of his disciples, and therefore is styled by the Greeks the Protoclet, or First Called. Andrew, who loved affectionately his brother Simon, called afterwards Peter, could not rest till he had imparted to him the infinite treasure which he had discovered, and brought him to Christ, that he might also know...
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...world around us to meet some recognised need’ (Rogers, 1983). Rogers was not a software developer, but an engineer specialising in thermodynamics and jet-engine development. Yet his definition captures the essence of engineering and has a wide applicability which extends to software. Much of our endeavour in software development is the design and construction of...
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...world, as focused by the campaign against slavery...Wilberforce: 1.2 Upbringing; MP for Yorkshire - William Wilberforce (Figure 1) was born in Hull, the son and grandson of substantial merchants who had made their fortune in trade between Yorkshire and the Baltic. His father died in 1768 and he subsequently went to live for a period with his uncle and aunt. Through them...
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