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How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a bench helping improve mental health in Zimbabwe?

...adapt it so trainers could use idioms of distress understood in the local culture. “We came up with a few concepts, like kuvhura pfungwa (which translates to “opening up the mind”) – it became a critical component, and the community could identify that term,” Chibanda said in an interview with SciDev.Net. "Other terms included kusimudzira, which means “to...
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Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s
History & The Arts

Twin Town and Welsh cinema in the late 1990s

...Adapted by Ed Thomas from his stage play of the same name, the film again used some of the staple clichés of the representation of Wales – family, mining community, matriarch – and subjected them to poetic scrutiny through the filter of the leading character’s obsession with key aspects of American culture. Again, an older Wales is seen as passing away and a...
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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...adapted the Pack to develop the first (T265) of the Open University distance teaching Renewable Energy course modules, and again, the first product of its kind on the market - and still going strong as other OU courses, such as T313 and T213. We also wrote an accompanying textbook Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future co-published by Oxford University Press -...
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Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...evolved into an international knowledge network, and the CHILD project in Zimbabwe (Power et al., 2021). At one point in the video Alison points colleagues to the work of Bukola Oyinloye (Oyinloye, 2021) about working with ethical frameworks from both our home and the visited settings. Transcript. This stance appreciates the pre-existence of culture, community, belonging and becoming in that setting and, as Jessica Oddy ......
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Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...adapted extract from the Open University course E236 Applying sport and exercise sciences to coaching...Training for speed and power in sport and fitness: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain what is meant by the concepts of speed and power understand the physiological principles that underpin speed and power apply a range of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...adapted extract from the Open University course M249 Practical modern statistics...Bayesian statistics: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: use relative frequencies to estimate probabilities calculate conditional probabilities calculate posterior probabilities using Bayes’ theorem calculate simple likelihood functions describe the role...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Kimberly Nicholas - Stories of Change

...adapting and growers and wine makers are doing things to adapt right now to climate change and preparing as well for the future. Moving locations is one of the more extreme ones. Of course there is a lot of investments in both practical terms, infrastructure and expertise, as well as cultural terms, so you need to have a sense of a place and knowledge of a place to really...
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Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...adaptation. It is important to note that, at the time when Darwin was writing, there was no knowledge of the mechanism for a crucial aspect of his theory, the passing of characters from parents to offspring. Darwin was aware that inheritance is a fundamental feature of living things, but he had no knowledge of DNA or chromosomes. In this , we will look at natural...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs