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Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...out from those around it – its properties have to be sufficiently different from the properties of normal tissue or surrounding matter, to be distinguished by the techniques chosen for investigation. Can you list a few medical imaging techniques you are familiar with? X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound. There are two main types of imaging. Anatomical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...out that because we do not have complete mastery over our environment, or control over what happens to us, it is impossible to achieve a purely positive mood. Instead, expressing negative emotions in response to challenging life situations is perfectly mentally healthy. Measuring wellbeing Given the varied ways in which we understand and think about our personal...
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Article 10 mins
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...out time and time again by political opponents and a state that institutionally has been restrictive and unresponsive to the ever-growing Irish medium sector. Rather than echoing the ‘resolute action’ of the Good Friday Agreement and supporting the continuous growth of Irish medium schools, the sector came to realise that in every category of support it was being...
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Article 5 mins
EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...out, asking a question no one has asked before and uncovering answers that no one else has found. All of these are excellent reasons for undertaking an EPQ. Understanding why you want to do a research project will help you in your first task: designing a research question. Designing your research question. The research process is a cycle (Figure 1): we design a question,...
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Article 5 mins
Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...out ‘I can’t breathe’] By 2015, the first Black Lives Matter movement in Europe had started up in England. In Lambeth, the names of 3,000 BAME people who had died in police custody, prisons, immigration detention centres and racist attacks in the UK were listed on a billboard. It spells out ‘I can’t breathe’ in homage to George Floyd’s last words to bring...
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Article 15 mins
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...out in the early 1980s with the publication of two books: Christopher Harvie’s No Gods and Precious Few Heroes, first published in 1981 and reprinted several times thereafter. More significant for the Red Clydeside debate was Iain McLean’s monumental study, The Legend of Red Clydeside, published in 1983. Emerging from an earlier thesis, the arguments presented by...
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Article 20 mins
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus60...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: perform advanced searches of data held on the UK RED site, including locating evidence by place of reading...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...out here on the pitch, it’s only as good as your ability to recover from it. I’ve grabbed a hold of that, that recovery is no longer just this passive thing that you do in between training sessions; that there’s actually recovery training. DR. PHILLIP BELL: As an athlete, you want to train as intensely as you can, to be able to get fitter, faster, stronger, and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs