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Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...change your lane, so they all get a chance. So maybe– MUSTAFA SARKAR: I'm Dr. Mustafa Sarkar. I'm an Associate Professor of Sport and Performance Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. My main area of research looks at the psychology of sporting excellence. And in particular, I'm interested in individual, team and organisational resilience in elite sport and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...change is 0 (N2) to +5 (NO3−) suggesting the transfer of five electrons. So how many molecules of ATP are needed to provide the energy for this conversion? Each electron transfer requires two molecules of ATP, so ten ATP molecules in total. Nitrogen compounds are produced in several other processes, the most obvious being for fertiliser, either farmyard manure or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...change was in the air as the eighteenth century gave way to the nineteenth. Irish radicalism in the 1790s posed a significant threat to the Protestant Ascendency who, though they identified themselves as nationally Irish, still felt themselves to be deemed too English by their Catholic countrymen. The Irish Act of Union in 1800, which merged the Kingdoms of Ireland and...
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Article 45 mins
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...change it. She also explains the reasons why it is not a matter of course that women are united in their struggle: … those [women] who have the most to lose from taking a stand, that is, women like me who have carved out a successful sinecure or career, have to be willing to risk insecurity – be it merely ridicule – in order to gain self-respect. And they have to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...change? The framework has a number of interconnected elements that focus on supporting health care staff, helping them become confident, adopting an individual approach to children and families, and empowering parents to become more actively involved in their child’s pain management All of these processes are dependent on effective leadership and robust education....
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...changes. It allows an appreciation of some of the pressures which bring about change in and development of law, and (in some areas) what roles individuals may play. It promotes an awareness of some of the values underpinning law, such as whether companies have a ‘social’ role to play. It allows you to consider the concept of rights and duties which lies beneath law...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...change the number of hours you work. This could help you fit the work around your other commitments. For example, as you approach exam time in the early summer months you might want to scale back your working hours to focus on revision. After the exams are over you might want to take on more hours again. The big disadvantage of a zero-hours contract is that the employer...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...change one phoneme, for example the /d/ to a /t/, then you have a word that is not just different but completely unrelated in meaning – bet. You could imagine a hypothetical linguistic system in which particular phonemes had special relationships to meanings; for example, in which words for furniture all began with /b/, or words for body parts all contained an /i/. No...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs