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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...guide food and exercise choices (Bruce & Ricciardelli, 2016; Tribole & Resch, 2012). Intuitive eating recognises that individuals are unique and that once they connect with their body and recognise their own internal hunger cues, they will make food choices that will promote their own health (Tribole & Resch, 2012). Intuitive eating is not a list of instructions of what...
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Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...University course DD308 Making social worlds...Passports: identity and airports: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the historical and sociological context of how passports became commonplace identify ways in which passport regimes are used to sort, categorise, order and classify populations consider ways that the passport...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...University of Pennsylvania fabricated a version of this computer using modern manufacturing processes. The component at the heart of this later version measures 7.44 millimetres by 5.29 millimetres! A personal computer was connected to this component to provide the modern equivalent of the cable connections shown on the left-hand side of Figure 1 and display the ENIAC’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...University, looked at the first six months of the operation, October 1997 to April 1998, and revealed that reported crime in the chosen estates fell by 23 per cent compared with the previous six months. However, researchers concede seasonal trends meant more crimes are committed in summer and, when compared with the same six months of the year before, reported crime...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...University course E312 Athletic development: a psychological perspective....Session 1: Understanding resilience: Introduction - [Image of men and women helping each other to climb over a mud barrier in a challenge race] A Japanese proverb ‘Fall seven times, stand up eight’ effectively captures the essence of psychological resilience. We know that athletes will face...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...University and Rolls-Royce PLC. This collaboration has ensured that contemporary theories about risk management are explored within the context of an international company that is required to apply these theories in its business practices. Recent decades have seen an array of news stories where risk management failings have undermined an organisation and dented the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...University, he’s at the forefront of a new wave of research into the bilingual mind. As you might expect, his lab is a Babel of different nationalities and languages – but no one here grew up speaking Syntaflake. The task is profoundly strange and incredibly difficult. Usually, when interacting in a foreign language, there are clues to help you decipher the meaning....
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