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Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...l) and Tracey Macleod (r) on Masterchef the Professionals. The joke has cost Sitwell his editing job. But his outburst has at least opened up the opportunity for some more honest discussion about why veganism, like many other progressive social movements, stimulates such aggressive responses. This article was originally published on The Conversation by Matthew Cole of the...
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Should I lock in my exchange rate when using cards and ATMs abroad?
Money & Business

Should I lock in my exchange rate when using cards and ATMs abroad?

...L Zagorsky...[Karnataka Bank ATM] During a November 2016 change to the Indian currency, the Karnataka Bank ATM stayed closed. Image: Agastya Chandrakant under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license A record number of tourists and business travelers visited another country in 2016, and this year is already on pace to exceed that tally. One thing you definitely need when...
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Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...L Sayers. In Chandler's case his model was Classical and Elizabethan tragedy. No coincidence his detective was called Marlowe - he was explicit about this in his essays. He thought only the detective genre could tackle the realities of modern life and the struggle for truth against compromise which true literature engaged. Today's writers, male and female, have inherited...
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Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...l−1 in Dipodomys and 9000 mOsmol l−1 in Notomys. Compare the osmolarity of the urine of Dipodomys with that of other mammalian species (Table 3), and note how small xeric mammals produce more highly concentrated urine than do species living in mesic habitats. Note also that large mammals living in xeric habitats, e.g. camels, do not produce urine as concentrated as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...L. (2010) ‘Kea, Nestor notabilis, produce dynamic relationships between objects in a second-order tool use task’, Animal Behaviour, vol. 80, no. 5, pp. 783–9. Bard, K. A. (2004) ‘Emotions in chimpanzee infants: the value of a comparative developmental approach to understand the evolutionary bases of emotion’, in Nadel, J. and Muir, D. (eds) Emotional...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...L., Barnes, A. J., Henry, T. R., Garwick, A. E. and Scal, P. B. (2019) ‘Medical risk and resilience in adolescents and young adults with epilepsy: the role of self-management self-efficacy’, Journal of pediatric psychology, 44(10), pp. 1224–1233. Evans, J., Rich, E. and Holroyd, R. (2004) ‘Disordered eating and disordered schooling: what schools do to middle class...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...for the following: PI is initial project investment NCF is positive net cash flow L is project life. Where PI = £100 000, NCF = £135 000, and L = 5 years: multiline equation line 1 annual average proceeds equals cap n times cap c times cap f divided by cap l line 2 equation left hand side equals right hand side prefix pound of 135 000 divided by five line 3 equation left hand side equals ......
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...L. (2014). ‘Trolls just want to have fun’ Personality and individual Differences, 67, pp. 97–102. Button, M., Lewis, C. and Tapley, J. (2009) Fraud typologies and the victims of fraud literature review. London, National Fraud Authority. Button, M., Lewis, C. and Tapley, J. (2014) ‘Not a victimless crime: The impact of fraud on individual victims and their...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs