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Virtual murder: Just a game?
History & The Arts

Virtual murder: Just a game?

...study of hundreds of research papers published between 2005 and 2013. They concluded that ‘The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behaviour, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in pro-social behaviour, empathy and sensitivity to aggression’. In response, more than 200 academics...
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Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?
Nature & Environment

Do our clothes shopping habits require retail therapy?

...study at Coventry University I am exploring female attitudes towards the notion of buying fewer garments. I have found, unsurprisingly, that anticipating, browsing for, choosing, buying and wearing clothes provides women with a great deal of happiness. Motivated by pleasure and variety seeking to an extent, but also by the desire to measure up to social expectations,...
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UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...study in Nature Climate Change. The area proposed for woodland cover would be close to that already achieved in France and Germany, but still less than the average for all Europe. Such restoration alone would go some way to meeting targets imposed by the government to reduce the threat of catastrophic global climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions that result...
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Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Weighing up the reliability of expert criminal evidence

...study involving 500 participants in a variety of forensic disciplines found ‘questionable communication practices’ were common and that ‘little information’ was provided to support their ‘absolute conclusions’. Other studies have also found problems with the ambiguous use of language, such as Sunde who examined multiple expert reports and concluded digital...
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...study on the business model canvas and will continue to develop your skills related to the internal part of the business model considering resources, activities and partnerships (infrastructure) (Osterwalder et al., 2010). In addition, you will also be introduced to methods of evaluating revenues and costs (financial viability) to help support you in drafting a financial...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Languages

Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...skills and cultural knowledge. They want to share this wealth […] The Elders want their young people to grow up strong and resilient, proud of and knowledgeable in the ways of their people, secure in their peoples’ Law and Culture knowledge, so that they can better cope with the changing world. A peoples’ own Law and Culture is the glue that holds life together. By...
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How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?
Languages

How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?

...skills aren't a bar to understanding your rights when arrested...“You have the right to remain silent” is an expression familiar to many English speakers. But what is involved in understanding this right in police interviews, as well as the consequences of waiving the right? Extensive research on comprehension of this and other rights delivered to suspects shows that...
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Making Social Worlds
Society, Politics & Law

Making Social Worlds

...skilled migrants can end up in unskilled jobs because of language problems. Keep multiculturalism Why Australia should continue to be multicultural. Embracing Australian culture Why the willingness to embrace Australian culture brings benefits. An academic perspective on passports Liz Mc Fall describes The Open University course structure, concentrating on the issue of...
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