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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...become her entire identity, with family life and relationships rarely focused on tennis. When an individual’s athletic identity becomes everything (an ‘exclusive athletic identity’) they are at risk of potential negative consequences, particularly when encountering incidents such as injury and retirement. Raducanu’s parents keep her grounded and ensure she...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...becoming severely ill from COVID-19? To answer this question, we have consulted several reports on COVID-19 epidemiology. Based on 481 patients who have died from COVID-19, the Italian Superior Institute of Health reported several diseases that were more frequently associated with COVID-19-related deaths. Underlying condition Number of patients Percentage (%) Hypertension...
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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

...becoming more progressive, the current findings do not fully support this claim. Instead, evidence suggests that, while Biles received support on social media, the reaction was hardly overwhelming in her favour. Conclusion The case of Simone Biles raises concerns about the media’s responsibilities regarding athletes’ mental health. Reporters should consider how their...
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‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Shut up and play’: a brief history of athlete activism

...become a focal point for the Black Lives Matter movement, with athletes serving as some of the campaign’s most vocal advocates. Despite the country’s racial diversity, most sports fans in America are white. By challenging race issues, black athletes are thereby resisting the powerful position and threatening the distraction that many seek from sport. According to...
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Witches in popular culture
History & The Arts

Witches in popular culture

...becoming a witch? Joining the witches is Tomasin’s last, desperate resort and it places her forever on the outside of a patriarchal social system in need of reform by and for its female members. More than this, Tomasin becomes one of the gruesome hags who have murdered her baby brother. In this respect, The Witch echoes old misogynist fairy tales, which often feature...
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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...becoming less welcoming as its own people struggle to make ends meet. This Saint Patrick’s Day will be celebrated in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland but with it is an undercurrent of an identity crisis, after half a decade of anti-immigrant protests across the island in almost a dozen towns and cities. Saint Patrick, a migrant, a slave, stricken by...
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...becomes available. Rather than eliminating uncertainty, Bayesian methods quantify it using probability. The process begins with a prior distribution, representing beliefs before observing the data. The likelihood captures the information from the observed data. These are combined to produce the posterior distribution, which reflects updated beliefs after considering the...
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Paratoi aseiniadau
Education & Development

Paratoi aseiniadau

...ou&utm_medium=ebook Mae cyrsiau prifysgolion yn amrywio o ran y mathau o aseiniadau sy’n ofynnol. Gellid gofyn i chi gwblhau unrhyw rai o’r canlynol. Traethodau Adroddiadau Aseiniadau llafar Aseiniadau atebion byr Aseiniadau a gaiff eu marcio gan gyfrifiadur Asesiadau ar ddiwedd y cwrs Ceir disgrifiad byr o bob un o’r rhain isod ond bydd deunyddiau eich cwrs yn...
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