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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...change jobs, are you just starting in the job market or may be returning after a break? If so, then this free course, Succeed in the workplace, is for you. It will help you explore career opportunities. You will also gain the skills to write strong CVs and application forms, and to handle different types of interviews. By the end of the course you will have made a start...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...changing cancer patients' treatment plans according to each individual´s specific needs.Targeted cancer therapies are drugs that interfere with "molecular targets" that are involved in the growth, progression, and spread of cancer. There are different types of targeted treatments, such as hormone therapy, cell signalling inhibitors, gene expression modulators, cell death...
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Article 15 mins
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...changing over time. Also, the impact of any intervention such as a lockdown has to be considered. More complex models of transmission model the interactions as a network of people. However, this study does no such mathematical modelling. This study is based on fitting a simple linear link between average daily infection rate and the total reported number of cases per...
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Article 10 mins
Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...changed. He said he could no longer discuss matters with me as he was now in government. I was shocked and saddened. I thought he would offer more support not less after becoming a government minister. It was a stern lesson on the forked tongue antics of many politicians. [A group of BA cabin crew on picket line during strike]Adapting BA’s slogan ‘To fly to serve’...
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Article 5 mins
DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...changes position, and measurements can be taken with the quadrant at any time of the night, whatever the season. Use the sight line on the top of the aiming beam to align the beam with the North Star. Use the protractor to measure the angle between the beam and the horizon (which is 90º to the plumb line). This angle is your latitude. How to measure longitude It’s easy...
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Article 15 mins
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...changing behaviour. There is no evidence it works under any circumstances but much evidence that punishment (especially severe punishment) encourages violent or otherwise undesirable behaviour. Thus, the idea that the particular punishment that prisons deliver will transform people and encourage (or force) them to lead better lives upon release is fundamentally flawed. In...
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Article 12 mins
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...change in both settings, rather than as an intruder in one and imposter in the other. Getting to know a setting can be achieved in many ways including starting with desk-based research, advice from other researchers and community members, even before entering the research site. This requires a commitment by the research team to ‘recognise the ‘process as product’,...
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Article 30 mins
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...Chang, A. M., Aeschbach, D., Duffy, J. F., & Czeisler, C. A. (2015). Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(4), 1232-1237. Cheever, N. A., Rosen, L. D., Carrier, L. M., & Chavez, A. (2014). Out of sight is not out of mind: The impact of restricting...
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Article 10 mins