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Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...world and are dealing with real-world problems! We all want things to be sorted around here, but we need to do it properly! We definitely do not want to make things worse.’ New ideas about policing and approaches to dealing with challenging situations emerge all the time. While there is a real benefit to home-grown innovation, it is also important to learn from the...
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...world, 1789–1914...National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand how the concepts of ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’ emerged during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries understand the processes that led to the formation of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland...
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...world. For more information, go to www.imf.org/ external/ about.htm. Treasury bills can be considered to be the safest investments available on the international capital markets, given the credit-worthiness of (most) governments, their short-term nature and the fact that they can be easily bought and sold. As you saw in earlier, the returns offered on investments include...
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...world around you. It is not always obvious, however, how to structure, aggregate, analyse or interpret the data to help you make decisions. In this free course, you will look at how to use data to make decisions in a systematic way using Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet software that you will most likely encounter numerous times either in a professional...
Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol
Money & Business

Gweithio hybrid: cynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol

...world by 2025’, yn y World Economic Forum, a ysgrifennwyd fis Mehefin 2020, yn ystod pandemig COVID-19, yn rhoi cipolwg ar y dechnoleg a all fod angen i ni ei deall ac ymgysylltu â hi eisoes, a hynny yn ein bywydau personol a'n bywydau proffesiynol (World Economic Forum, 2020). Mae buddion anfwriadol i'r amgylchedd yn ystod cyfnod clo pandemig COVID-19 'oherwydd...
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...world. Because they are easily recognisable patterns, people have used the night sky for navigation when no landmarks were available. Celestial navigation has helped sea captains for centuries, and also aircraft pilots during the early days of aviation. The Plough (or the Big Dipper) is part of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It can be used to locate the ‘Pole star’ (or...
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The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...World Health Organisation (2022) defines obesity as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. Obesity is a complex, multifactorial condition linked to a wide range of genetic and non-genetic factors, including environmental, lifestyle, socioeconomic and psychological factors. The primary cause of obesity is an imbalance between the energy...
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...World War: The Ladies' Health Society worked bravely among us … Together with the ‘Sanitary Society’, they visited the ‘lowest classes’ and found ‘much that is saddening: but there are bright spots – clean homes, pretty little sitting-room kitchens … clean hearths, chests of highly polished mahogany drawers, a steady husband, a tidy wife and children’...