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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...Social Sciences courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for several decades sex workers have...
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Article 10 mins
Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...Social withdrawal, always doing things on their own, becoming isolated Lack of self-care or a tendency to display risky behaviours in public A sense of hopelessness or feeling overwhelmed An individual who displays more than one could lead the observer to suspect that the pilot may be at risk of deteriorating mental health (SkyBrary). Emotional – Pilots who are...
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Article 5 mins
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...social impact, building a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and evaluating relevant information sources...Effective communication is essential in science, but do you ever wonder whether articles written about science in the news are thorough, unambiguous and objective? Rigorous assessment is at the heart of good science. This free course, Assessing contemporary science, will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...social improvements were allied to major changes in lifestyle, one of the most notable being a move away from people living predominantly in rural areas and a rapid rise in the ratio of Chinese people living in cities. Figure 2d shows that in the 1960s and 1970s around 17 per cent of China’s population was urbanised but it started to rise from the early 1980s and now...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...social environment? Maybe it depends what you are learning? If you want to improve your dancing skills, for example, you will probably want to learn with others. However, you may well prefer to learn cooking by yourself so that you can make mistakes privately! A point you may want to consider when planning future learning is that it is often easier to concentrate when we...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...interactions (for example, chemical weathering) between water and the rocks over or through which it flows, or they have been added to the water to ensure it is safe to drink. This means that water can contain ions that can be transported and made available for life to utilise. Importantly, this also means that water can carry dissolved substances around our bodies (and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...interact with matter, either atoms or molecules. The nature of the interaction depends on the energy of the radiation concerned. In which part of the electromagnetic spectrum are X-rays found? X-rays, with wavelengths in the range 0.01–10 nm, are higher energy than ultraviolet, but lower energy than gamma radiation. As X-rays pass through matter they may: go straight...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...social factors we investigate here...This free course, Physical activity: a family affair, aims to explore the effects that the family has on the amount and nature of physical activity a child participates in. The beliefs and behaviours of the family environment are the key psycho-social factors we investigate here....Physical activity: a family affair: Introduction - For...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs