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5 benefits of giving up alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 benefits of giving up alcohol

...working organ is so vital, aiding over 500 of your body's processes. To name just a few, it regulates blood clotting, removes bacteria and contaminants, fights infection and maintains your hormones, minerals and vitamins. There are many short- and long-term effects on your body when you drink alcohol. To gain a deeper understanding on how alcohol affects the human body,...
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Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing
Science, Maths & Technology

Rewriting DNA: An introduction to genome editing

...works) is referred to as ‘gene knock-out’. The genome editing process The “basic” genome editing techniques take advantage of error-prone DNA repair mechanisms to knock-out a selected gene. The individual genome editing techniques have their own details, but their concepts are similar. In each case, special molecules called endonucleases act as “molecular...
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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...workings of antidepressants. Finally, we consider the interaction between genes and the environment, and how this might influence the development of emotional disorders. The related OpenLearn course Emotions and emotional disorders introduces you to the study of emotions and emotional disorders in the context of our evolutionary heritage, and goes on to consider how we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...work or for leisure, this free course will introduce you to one of the most widely spoken languages in the world – Spanish. Whether this is the first time that you are learning Spanish, or you have already picked up some words and phrases from travelling across the Spanish-speaking world, this course is for you. This introduction offers the perfect opportunity to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...working separately from the project team. The project sponsor is the individual who has responsibility for ensuring that: appropriate governance mechanisms are in place for the project project assurance processes take place through periodic monitoring of the governance mechanism. The monitoring may be by the project sponsor themselves, or by someone to whom the authority...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...work of Anaximander and Empedocles. Anaximander proposed that animals could be transformed from one kind to another, and Empedocles speculated that they could be made up of various combinations of pre-existing parts. However, evolutionary theories were subsequently prevented from developing and challenging the belief of special creation for some fifteen centuries, due to...
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Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...worked out that any word which occurs within that particular context (a -and…) must be a noun. In other words, you've made the identification on the grounds of the function rather than the form of the word. This is usually the most dependable way of making such an identification, since a single form, such as holiday, can behave as a number of different word classes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...works helps you build up your understanding, but your own language(s) and your knowledge of other languages can also be extremely helpful...Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish: 3.1 Recognising cognates - Box 3: Using cognates When watching videos in Spanish, you will recognise some words or phrases because they are similar to the ones used in your own...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs