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Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...human beings. Each of us is trapped in his own body.' To which you have to say 'That's true, but I think we should focus right now on what to have for breakfast'. [LAUGHING] A lot of the time what they are expressing is not illness, but insight. And one comes to think what's really extraordinary, is that most of us know about those existential questions, and they don't...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...resource, so it’s going to work in some parts of the world and not in others, but there are clearly places where these renewable technologies wash their own face commercially now anyway. RH: What about offshore wind which is so much more expensive than onshore wind, although politically less contentious, we haven’t seen huge decreases in price in offshore wind,...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...human development. Bandura’s social cognitive theory (SCT) builds on the earlier social learning approaches by addressing the fact that human development involves a complex interplay of many factors. SCT is usually presented (e.g. Bandura, 1986) in terms of a ‘model of causation’ that links three sets of variables, all of which influence each other: behaviour (e.g....
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Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 3: Double-entry accounting: Introduction - As you learned in Week 1, accounting is a process that involves: the systematic recording of all relevant financial transactions and events classifying, interpreting, summarising and reporting such bookkeeping data the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...human blood. Metal Chemical symbol Concentration/ppb Aluminium Al 13 Cobalt Co 0.2 Chromium Cr 3.0 Nickel Ni 5.0 Metals may enter fresh and salty water through industrial waste, sewage and run-off. Microbes, plants and animals that depend on this contaminated water consume or absorb these metals. Over time the metals are concentrated within the food chain, in a process...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...resources to survive a weak start, but he is going to have to figure out how to capture the imagination of his party. Andra Gillespie is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University. She teaches the undergraduate survey course in African American politics and a course called “New Black Political Leadership.” She is the author of The New Black...
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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...are further resources you may find useful in the Applying Psychology at Work Hub: Wellbeing for Work Managing Relationships and Work References Bertua, C., Anderson, N. and Salgado, J.F. (2005) ‘The predictive validity of cognitive ability tests: a UK meta-analysis’, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 78, pp. 387–409, doi: 10.1348/096317905X26994...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...resource for nationalist writers. ‘A Legend of Tyrone’ (1887) O’Leary’s ‘A Legend of Tyrone’ was first published in 1887 in the Catholic literary journal The Irish Monthly and then often anthologised, for example in W.B. Yeats’s influential 1888 collection Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. The Story Below you'll find the poem ‘A Legend of...
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