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Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...change the outcome, sometimes in ways that their supporters find highly undesirable. For instance, the presence of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader on the presidential ballot in Florida in 2000 may very well have caused Al Gore to lose Florida, and thereby the presidency, even though it’s likely that a large majority of Nader voters preferred Gore to George Bush....
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The Rise and Fall of the Slave Trade
History & The Arts

The Rise and Fall of the Slave Trade

...in the context of the Atlantic trade's long existence, its abolition was a remarkable change, and the question arises of how this came to happen. Above all, what factors converted Britain to such vehement anti-slavery? The obvious starting-point is the campaigns of Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce and their fellow evangelical Christians from the 1780s onwards. At the level of parliamentary politics, ......
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The Rise of Museums
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The Rise of Museums

...changed over time. Museums of science, technology, natural history, of civilisation have become emblematic of modernity and rational knowledge, their majestic architecture, part cathedral, part stately home, and their neat displays of objects organised along taxonomic and/or evolutionary principles. When did the idea arise that museums and their exhibitions could be...
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Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...change and adapt and whether they will still be able to perform as well. Furthermore, in some cases women still have to negotiate cultural norms and gender ideology that promotes how women’s ‘true role’ is to have and care for children which can cause tension in the context of sporting participation. Research suggests that becoming a mother can actually help sports...
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...change the colours, contrasts levels and fonts resize text up to 200% without impact on the functionality of the website zoom in up to 400% without loss of information or functionality, or the need to scroll in more than one direction navigate the website using just a keyboard to allow you to: tab to ‘Skip to content’ links at the top of the page to jump over...
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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...change. (Selye, 1978 [1956]), p. 29) The distinction between eustress and distress is not current, but Selye and others found it helpful to understand how stress could be ‘good’ as well as ‘bad’. The critical point that Selye was making is that an understanding of biology by itself may not be enough to understand the effects of stress because the same...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...change in their DNA – a mutation in a gene called p53 that undermines their ability to resist cancer. p53 has turned out to be the most important single gene in cancer, and has been one of the most popular areas of study in the history of molecular biology. The gene was discovered in 1979 by David Lane, working at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, and...
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Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...change about.’ While the nuances may be different, the emphasis of all these definitions is on help and support, and the relationship between two people – common themes in almost all definitions of mentoring. Maybe you also highlighted those aspects in the sentence or paragraph that you wrote in Activity 1...Week 1: Where am I starting from?: 1.2 Defining coaching -...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs