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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...l). Each person carries two copies, or alleles, of the gene, one from each parent. The ‘s’ version produces less of the functional protein than the ‘l’ one. As mentioned above, each individual carries two alleles, one allele (‘s’ or ‘l’) from the father and one (‘s’or‘l’) from the mother. What possible combination of alleles (or genotype) could an...
Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...R J Davidson Happy Child, happy adult: The childhood routes of adult happiness E M Hallowell The pursuit of happiness from Scientific American, 274 D G Myers & F Diener The Optimistic Child M E P Seligman, K Reivich, L Jaycox and J Gillham From the web: EEG asymmetry Attachment theory Positive Psychology Centre The BBC and the Open University are not responsible...
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...L. P. Hartley called it, ‘a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ But in truth, history is all around us. It is today, because without the recording of actions of people now, there would be nothing to study in the future. The way we record these actions – not just the big decisions, but the more modest actions too - is dependent on so many things....
Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...L. (2000) ‘Irish Poetry of the Modernist Canon: A Reappraisal of Katherine Tynan’ in Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities ed. by K. Kirkpatrick, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ‘Some Recollections of Ellen O’Leary’ (anon., 1911) The Irish Monthly (39: 458) pp.456-462. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20503056 Toomey, Deirdre (2004)...
Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?

...L., Webster, K.E., Beynnon, B., Kocher, M.S. and Myer, G.D. (2019) ‘“What’s my risk of sustaining an ACL injury while playing sports?” A systematic review with meta–analysis’, British Journal of Sports Medicine, 53, pp. 1003–1012. Shagawa, M., Maruyama, S., Sekine, C., Yokota, H., Hirabayashi, R., Hirata, A., Yokoyama, M. and Edama, M. (2021) ‘Comparison...
Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...University's employability hub can help with career planning and development. Reference and acknowledgement Bates, L. (2019) Developing the nursing associate role in a critical care unit. Clinical Practice. 115 (10): 20-24 The research project informing this OpenLearn article was funded and supported by The Open University’s, Praxis Scholarship and Innovation Centre....
Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between). Even in a relatively short period of time, I can see the enormous transformations that have taken place in children’s lives and in the ways they are thought about and treated. Looking further back I can see vast differences between contemporary and historical childhoods. Today, children have few responsibilities, their lives are...
The digital revolution for academic integrity has already begun
Education & Development

The digital revolution for academic integrity has already begun

...L., Rozeva, A., Kocdar, S., Brouns, F., Whitelock, D. and Guerrero-Roldán, A-E. (2019c) ‘Pedagogical approaches for e-assessment with authentication and authorship verification in Higher Education’, British Journal of Educational Technology [Online]. Available at http://oro.open.ac.uk/58380 (Accessed 20 June 2019). Stilgoe, J., Owen, R. and Macnaghten, P. (2013)...