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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...community in the United States. Both the Union and Confederate armies, anxious to attract recruits, formed all-Irish units. Most Irish recruits, an estimated 150,000 men, served with Union forces while about 20,000, generally those who lived in the southern cities such as New Orleans, served with the Confederates. New York’s famous 69th Infantry Regiment was a...
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Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...communication is reduced, short-term memory can be impaired and falling asleep - either a short "micro-sleep" or for a longer period - can result in poor decision making (Staff Reporter, 2018; Eurocontrol, 2018). Sleep Research demonstrates that the accumulation of "sleep debt", e.g., having an hour less of sleep for several consecutive days, needs a series of days with...
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Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...communication skills – Lai and McDowall (2014) also emphasise the benefits of actively listening and reflecting back; using powerful questioning techniques; supplying and seeking feedback; allowing space for story sharing; and using appropriate verbal and body language. See suggested sources at the end of this article to help improve these skills. Demonstrating empathy...
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Article 10 mins
How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...community centre is a great way to showcase what you have been doing whilst you have been out of work. The experience and skills you acquire will definitely be seen as transferable to employed situations, and it will also demonstrate to employers that you are enthusiastic and willing to invest your own time in making a positive contribution to help others and to help...
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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...Year Forward View for Mental Health. Available at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/the-five-year-forward-view-for-mental-health/ (Accessed: 4 January 2024). Tseng, J., Poppenk, J. Brain meta-state transitions demarcate thoughts across task contexts exposing the mental noise of trait neuroticism. Nat Commun 11, 3480 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17255-9...
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Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...communities endeavoured to employ the finest craftsmen to work for them. As early as the 14th Century, Giotto found patrons who not only engaged him as recognition of his fame, but also considered that his presence in Florence would enhance the prestige of their city. Ambitious popes of the 15th and early 16th Century tried to impress upon artists the power of their...
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Article 30 mins
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...communicating and using the predictions. It also makes it difficult to predict and measure the effects of any future potential geoengineering. In the next session you will tackle the question: how has Earth’s climate changed in the recent past? Get started with Session 2...Session 2: The planet is changing: Introduction - Do you believe the climate is changing? If so,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...communicate. Asserts there is only one true, objective knowledge that transcends time and cultural location. Accepts that there are multiple knowledges, and that knowledge is highly contingent on time and cultural location. Views knowledge as based on facts that are ‘out there in the world’ waiting to be discovered. Views knowledge as constructed through people’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs