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Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...family, group, local and national level, but within these different dimensions the conflict may be at different stages and heading in a range of directions involving escalation on a destructive path, or de-escalation towards settlement of conflict (Kriesberg, 2011). In other words, there is more than one conflict at play. Here you have read a brief overview of the nature...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...family, for example. You may need to reorganise how you use your time in order to fit sufficient study hours into your week. Use daily or weekly ‘to do’ lists to help you to plan and prioritise. These can help to clear your mind and clarify what is really important for your studies, but they can also result in you making a commitment to yourself that you will do what...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...families experience mobility across places, and, importantly, to develop innovative methods in migration research, the project involved the children in producing sketches of images they related to home and, separately, to being away. These were then used as raw material for the production of graffiti boards by a local ‘spiritual’ artist whose background was similar to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
General principles of cellular communication
Science, Maths & Technology

General principles of cellular communication

...family of integral membrane proteins that activate signal transduction processes inside cells; they typically bind extrinsic signals via their carboxy-terminal extracellular domains, and via a conformational change alter the activity of associated GTP-binding proteins. They are sometimes referred to as 7-helix transmembrane (7TM) receptors, serpentine receptors or...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...families, or have had extremely distressing experiences before joining the community in Wales. Are these groups understood within your school so that they can be participating members of the learning community?...3. Transforming learning: 3.1 A broad view of inclusion - Definitions of ‘inclusion’ and ‘inclusive education’, then, have moved away from a specific...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...family income. 75% of the women were in paid work; 90% of the men were in paid work; 18% of the couples had a joint income of less than £160 per week. (a) How many women were in paid work? (b) How many men were in paid work? (c) How many couples had a joint income of less than £160 per week? Answer (a) 75% of 840 = 0.75 × 840 = 630, so 630 women were in paid work. (b)...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...family history of depression'. The authors put forward the hypothesis that two neurobehavioral vulnerability factors − ‘social evaluative threat’ and altered ‘reward processing’ − could be involved in the pathway from anxiety to depression in youth, and support this with evidence from behavioural and neuroimaging studies. They propose that these
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...family and friends; let them know you’ve decided to start learning Italian and maybe they can help you or leave you in peace when you need to study. Buon lavoro!...Introduction: Open Centre for Languages and Cultures - This course has been developed from extracts of LGXI003 - Beginners Italian 3: stai andando bene!. The Open University have launched a dedicated learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs