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Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course Image: Maridav/Shutterstock Figure 1: Maridav/Shuttertsock...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...writing, mathematical ability, logic and analysis. The right hemisphere dominates for perception, spatial ability, musical and artistic abilities, imagery and dreaming. The right hemisphere also seems to be more emotional and negative compared to the positive and rational left hemisphere. Evidence to support the proposal that one hemisphere may dominate the other for a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...writing that such money is a gift. Without this the lender may assume the money is a loan and include it in the affordability testing (with the risk that this will end up cutting the size of the mortgage they will advance to you). Over time you may move on to a new home (and therefore a new mortgage). Keeping down the LTV will then become easier. This is because the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...writing report about these matters, it would be good statistical practice to include the counts of cases and deaths somewhere, even if not in the same table as that including the rates. Do you agree that Table 2.7 conforms to all of the four guidelines given at the beginning of this section? After you have produced a table for yourself, it is always a good idea to check...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...writing to their eligibility. No words are spoken at the moment captured in the photograph, and we might imagine verbal exchanges to be brief, structured and predictable. The encounter shown in Figure 5 is an act of regulation. In Figure 6, there is still little difficulty in distinguishing between the official and the client, but the highly formalised style, attire and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...writes James Nicholls, Director of Research and Policy Development at Alcohol Research UK. The story of wine in Britain is also the story of women drinkers. Pubs were traditionally not particularly welcoming to women. As the authors of The Pub and the People noted, women were excluded from certain rooms: “Vault and taproom are for men only, [taboo] to women, who drink...
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Article 10 mins
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...Writing as a Black British Psychotherapist, with a background in psychology, I explore the backdrop to these divided perspectives. I draw on knowledge gained in professional training as well as my own personal experience in the hope that insider perspective can illustrate the points and assist reflection. Racism rows reach royalty [King Charles]King Charles IIIPerhaps the...
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Article 5 mins
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...writing (2011), Influenza A (H5N1) and influenza B (unknown lineage) are the two main types globally. FluNet also breaks this information down into geographic areas and countries so, if you wish, you can see what subtypes are circulating where you live. Typically a flu vaccine contains material from the main influenza A strains and an influenza B strain, so that an immune...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs