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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the value of an evolutionary perspective in understanding emotions (or moods) and emotional (or mood) disorders specify brain pathways involved in the perception and processing of emotions describe the rationale of approaches used in the diagnosis of emotional (or mood) disorders outline the characteristics and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...skills base available within Newry and the area’s dependence on fluctuating retail markets. It highlighted the need for a broadening of the area’s commercial activity suggesting the further development of Newry Port and investment in the area’s tourist industry. To the latter end, in 2009, the district council also published a Tourism Review and Strategy which aims...
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Article 15 mins
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...skilled mathematicians who would decompose the complicated formulae into a series of relatively simple additions or subtractions. The lowest tier of de Prony’s scheme were eighty relatively unskilled workers who actually produced the mathematical tables. So long as they followed the list of additions and subtractions in the correct order (and got the right result), they...
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Article 15 mins
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...skill for both university and working life. One of the aims of the EPQ is to help you develop your skills in using different communication tools, so you can communicate what you have found clearly and appropriately for different audiences. Communication is also a vital part of the research cycle. The progress of research thrives on the exchange, review and discussion of...
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Article 5 mins
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate why social workers need to know about asylum and immigration law understand what it means to be a refugee identify the rights asylum seekers have recognise the support available, as well as barriers to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees accessing services recognise how an understanding of the law and social work...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...studied in what was then Leningrad. She speaks fluent Russian. It was excellent tuition, she says, “but we were told simply to treat patients, not to treat them as people. There was no compassion.” The way her father died changed her outlook forever. He was diagnosed with lung cancer the same year she began her studies in Russia, and in Mongolia’s health system at...
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Article 15 mins
Are things changing in world rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are things changing in world rugby?

...skillful Japan, but also Namibia and Romania presenting something of a challenge to the more familiar narrative of the traditionally dominant rugby playing nations. Maybe things are changing in world rugby? [rugby world cup, Thames, Tower bridge] The biggest surprise however, was England, the host nation, being knocked out in the first round, something which hasn’t...
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The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...incomes and people to turn to for support. Finally, as anyone who has done it knows, living together is not easy, and additional challenges often emerge with larger groups of people. Perhaps we could look to these forms of shared living to inform our thinking about relationship skills, conflict resolution, and community building, rather than regarding them with suspicion....
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Article 5 mins