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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...et al., 2013) compiled from different observations with labels of important locations. The proposed new mechanism is called Marine Ice Cliff Instability (MICI), not to be confused with the established Marine Ice Sheet Instability (MISI) which are both positive feedback loops (science slang for a self-sustained process: if the result is undesired, as in this case, you can...
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What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...et al., 2010). Definitions by therapists working on increasing psychological flexibility define it as, ‘the ability to fully contact the present moment and the thoughts and feelings it contains without needless defence ... persisting or changing behaviour in the pursuit of goals and values (Hayes et al., 2006, p. 9). We can think of psychological flexibility using the...
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Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Addressing health inequalities in greenspaces to age well: Part I socio-economic and transport access inequalities

...et al. 2023), and the UK Government has now embedded awareness and care for nature into our school curriculum. Due to modern lifestyles, we have a lack of exercise in our daily routine and are therefore becoming increasingly sedentary. This leads to various health issues that are becoming more frequent, including obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, some types of cancer and social...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...et cetera, which are encapsulated in the notion of geography - in a geographical imagination - which are then important to understanding environmental issues as geographically constituted. Michael: Okay. That’s great. And the idea then is that the development of that understanding progresses through the module via a number of key blocks. Could you just run through what...
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Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...et al., 2018). For an athlete who has a strong athletic identity (i.e., someone who views themself predominantly as an athlete) the prospect of developing a new identity outside of the familiar ‘competitive athlete’ role after retirement can be daunting, but as we will discuss in this article, athletes hold a range of transferable skills that can make negotiating a...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...et there...[Westminster freezing over] Brexit so far casts doubt on the functioning of the democratic parliamentary process and its ability to provide fair representation and protection of the interests of the British public. A central part in addressing this is the question whether the choice of parliamentary candidates and MPs is fit for purpose. Considering a trust...
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Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...et al., 2009). To do this, we need to develop generic skills that can be applied across the sciences. In practice, science is not just one thing. Scientific knowledge is produced by scientists working in a vast array of sub-disciplines (Schummer, 2009). In this short course you will encounter, among others: conservation biologists working to better understand how animals,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...et al. (eds), Mammalian Hibernation III. 1967 Oliver and Boyd Figure 21 (a) A bat in position for thermography (dorsal side uppermost) showing the location of the interscapular region (red), and the major temperatures prevailing at the commencement of thermographic scannings, (b) Thermogram of the dorsal surface of a bat during its arousal from torpor. (The higher the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs