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Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...research on how Protestants used images and objects to express their faith in the Reformation. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Dr Roisin Watson]Family holidays always involved a trip to a castle or church when I was younger. Walking around these places made the...
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Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...research by Venus and Holtforth (2022) suggest that chronic stress appears to be linked to psychophysiological wear and tear, and is associated with higher levels of fatigue, more sleep disturbances and more impaired mental health. Life Events and Daily Hassles The Life Events Inventory (LEI) (Cochrane and Robertson, 1973) was developed as a checklist of potential...
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Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...children are at the centre of a palliative care approach. The child might have a life-limiting condition for which there is no reasonable hope of cure and from which they will die. Alternatively, the child might have a life-threatening condition for which treatment in an attempt to cure may be feasible but can fail, such as when operating on a tumour. Caring for any child...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Designing the Spanish nation
Languages

Designing the Spanish nation

...centre of the Iberian Peninsula. It became politically important in 1561 when Philip II decided to move the royal court from Toledo, although when his son came to power, the court moved to the northwest, to the city of Valladolid, for a 5 year period (1601-1606). Since then Madrid was established as the primary political, economic, and cultural centre of the country. The...
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Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!

...research has shown that it is possible to improve self-belief by consciously challenging our thinking to be more positive, optimistic and constructive, which then influences our emotions and behaviour, towards being more self-assured in an interview situation. Negative thoughts tend to just pop into our heads and can often be self-sabotaging; for example, ‘you will...
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Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...centre of the cell is fast enough to support the respiration reactions. However, the amount of oxygen that can diffuse passively through the cell drops off rapidly with the distance over which the oxygen has diffused. Consequently organisms that rely on the passive diffusion of oxygen cannot be larger than about 1 mm in diameter; for larger organisms the oxygen would not...
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Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...centred, in that it prioritises the history of individual objects, without excluding the need to understand the social group they belong to. This course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A105 Voices, texts and material culture...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to:...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...centre line except in the older age groups: this tells us that there are roughly the same number of males and females in each age band apart from in the latter stages of life, which more women tend to reach than men. Transcript As Hans suggests, the fertility rate of a population - how many children tend to be born, on average, per woman - has a great influence of the...
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