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Introducing Health Sciences: The Pain Clinic
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: The Pain Clinic

...works The Real Health Institute A group of 8 patients on a four week course at a specialist pain clinic in London. Controlling Pain Through Medication A doctor at the Royal Free Hospital's Pain Clinic performs a procedure and explains how medication can help alleviate pain. Effects of Chronic Pain Patients talk about about the treatments they've had and doctors describe...
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Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...working over a period of years. Learning outcomes At the end of Section 1, you should be able to: define what a project is use a variety of knowledge-gathering and idea-generating techniques to develop objectives for action use Pareto analysis and cause and effect diagrams to explore problem areas generate simple matrix diagrams to relate objectives to strategies name and...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...working code is valued above other types of artefact, such as models or other documentation. Extreme Programming (XP) (Beck, 2000) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2001) are two well-known Agile development approaches. Within the same timescale of Agile development, model-driven-development (Selic, 2003) also arose. This approach sees models and not code as the key...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...work of MSPs and MPs. It discusses the characteristics of the constitution, the importance of the concept of the rule of law, how an Act of Parliament is structured and considers how and why members of the public are encouraged to become involved with the work of the Scottish Parliament...This free course, The Scottish Parliament and law making, explores the law making...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Do people really behave in a rational way?
Money & Business

Do people really behave in a rational way?

...worked, our results appear to go against psychologists' findings about incidental emotions and instead endorse rational choice. Why? It might be because people were being asked to make choices over a public good where many people would benefit. Emotions may have a different effect on our choices over public goods than private goods. Or it could be because our participants...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...work] The starting premise is that open methodologies do not assume a reflective person as the originator of knowledge and meaning, but neither do they wholly relinquish the notion of the human, or favour anonymous forces. Central to the approach is a concern with the formation and nature of subjectivities that are set in motion by methods, as well as the social worlds...
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London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi
Nature & Environment

London’s great smog prompts link with Delhi

...work on the street in both cities, those who drive taxis, are runners, work professionally to tackle air pollution, and those who live with its health consequences. Over 4,000 people are thought to have died in London’s 1952 smog. By today 8,700 people in London will have died prematurely in 2017 because of major air pollutants, with more than one person an hour dying...
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St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity
History & The Arts

St David’s Day and the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical identity

...work of twelve leading scholars, it will examine Welsh music and musical life from the earliest medieval sources through to the ‘Cool Cymru’ phenomenon and twenty-first-century Wales’ reputation as a centre for creative media production. Helen Barlow and Martin Clarke are co-authoring a chapter that examines the role of the crowd in perceptions of Welsh musical...
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