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Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...learn. Remember, for me and my colleagues in this field, your sex and gender matter. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] Discussion It is quite shocking that most drugs that have been withdrawn are due to their side effects on women. This means women are essentially being used as test subjects in many cases. To ensure that research studies can be published the data needs to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain what is meant by the concepts of speed and power understand the physiological principles that underpin speed and power apply a range of training techniques for speed and power in practice...Training for speed and power in sport and fitness: 1 What are speed and power? - Before you can look at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...learn more about modern computers and how they process data, and more about the formatting of data so that computers can work with it as part of useful computer systems. In the next session you will learn more about the components of a computer, its processor You can now go to Session 2...Session 1: Computers and processors: Glossary - * Computer A machine that...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...learning about over the next four weeks. DAVID MALE Hello, I'm David Male and welcome to this course on histology and histopathology, the study of tissues and diseases underneath the microscope. In the first part of the course, we are going to introduce you to microscopy and teach you how to use a microscope. A lot of what we will do is taught through a virtual microscope...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...learn....Introducing global development: Introduction - Development is about change that is a result of human activity, and such change has happened throughout human existence. In this course, you will first examine a particular framing of change processes − that associated with industrialisation and the concept of a ‘modern’ society. The view of development as...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...learn about what the current unsolved problems are and about the possible ways in which they may be solved in the future...The science of cosmology has been very successful in explaining a wide range of observational evidence about the Universe, from the detailed properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation to the distributions of galaxies, and the elemental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: outline to what extent a person’s ‘lifestyle’ impacts upon their health and wellbeing describe how psychosocial (i.e. social, economic, cultural and political) factors influence a person’s health identify what government interventions have been developed to tackle a health issue, in particular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...learn something from the advanced management styles of the international companies, and also for the resource related companies to get more resources back to China to support its economic development, but for the other types of companies was to export China's capacity to establish their international kind of reputation and also to learn some know hows from their partners...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs