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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...becomes problematic when someone is not getting clinical benefit from a medicine, or the negative effects of treatment outweigh beneficial outcomes. The changes associated with ageing and polypharmacy increase the risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and worsening of chronic conditions. For example, reflex tachycardia is a mechanism to increase heart rate and blood...
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Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...becomes enjoyable because you've been under long-term constant stress” (Gould, 2012). Gould (2012) identifies 3 different types of stress: an internal source of stress – perfectionism, a personality factor that generates a constant stress to be perfect external sources of stress – e.g., commercial pressure, pressure to perform stemming from an over-bearing...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...becomes even clearer when we turn to the second reservation about the characterisation of London as multicultural future of the world. For London is not only multicultural. It is also – for instance – a heartland of the production, command and propagation of what we have come to call neoliberal globalisation. Indeed it was in London that many of its lineaments were...
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Article 15 mins
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...become familiar with core concepts of digital research such as digitisation, metadata, ‘big data’, the FAIR principles, data wrangling, qualitative and quantitative analysis and knowledge infrastructures. While this course will not teach you how to use specific tools or programming languages, it will provide you with a good theoretical foundation upon which you can...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...OU’s Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership will be able to see what you write and we may anonymise and draw on some of what you say for future research – we see this as a circular relationship where we develop one another’s knowledge. The aim is to build a community of learning: we are all in this together. By sharing any contribution (including any text,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...become more of a factor in modernised urban societies, where (almost by definition) Western influence is greater. It presents a model for musical performance, and is one of many ways in which the West has influenced the rest of the world in the last century or so...Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective: 3.2 Technological change and the mediation of music - The...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Why is the Conservative manifesto the mark of a brave Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the Conservative manifesto the mark of a brave Prime Minister?

...student visa requirements and the doubling of charges on firms employing migrant workers, may go some way towards retaining their support. Winning over new voters? These manifesto pledges don’t really show us a party which is trying to win the votes of the mainstream majority. Rather, it shows us Theresa May’s supreme confidence in leading her party. She’s not...
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Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?
Languages

Does poor spelling really make President Trump unfit for office?

...student’s spelling of the word “potato” to “potatoe”. This simple error became one of the lasting images of his career, and was interpreted not simply as a sign that he couldn’t spell one of the more common root vegetables, but that he was of impoverished intelligence generally. Transcript Then there was the furore over a mistake Gordon Brown made towards the...
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