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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...children and the elderly or in people whose immune system is not functioning properly, it can be fatal...Microbes – friend or foe?: 1.1 Evolution of antibiotic resistance in microbes - Infections caused by bacteria but not treatable by common antibiotics, are one of the greatest healthcare concerns today. One of the most problematic microbes, alongside C. difficile, is...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...research of scientists and engineers. Only then comes part two, the manufacturing-- the machine in the middle that churns out the process. This is the tangible bit of the process. Now, this does add value. Of course it does. But less than you think. There's so many nations can do this well. Then there's the third step. The marketing, advertising, and branding. Teams of...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...children in a household (adapted from DWP, 2016)...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 2.1.2 The effect of incomes and household types - The carbon footprints given in Section 2.1 are averages (means) for a UK inhabitant. But, as mentioned earlier, footprints differ considerably for different individuals and households. A factor which has a major effect on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd

...research study’, JMIR Medical Education, [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn: https://www.jmir.org/2013/2/e18/ (Cyrchwyd: 3 Mehefin 2025). Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) (2023) The ASPiH Standards – 2023: guiding simulation-based practice in health and care, [ar-lein]. Ar gael yn :
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...children (and older athletes), alongside the presence of the coach, develop and test the moral dimensions of their evolving characters’. To help practitioners to work within these ethical and moral standards, organisations articulate codes of conduct to ensure that everyone knows what is expected...A question of ethics: right or wrong?: 2 Adhering to the code - Sport...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...children to being no longer capable of becoming pregnant (Northrup, 2012). This occurs as the levels of hormones gradually change, with a substantial fall over time in the production of oestrogen. For some people, this process might last for perhaps 4–5 years, while for others, it can take up to 12–13 years (Newson, 2019; Northrup, 2012). The following figure shows...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...centred on measures of the spread of incomes across people. One approach often used by economists to consider the spread of incomes is the use of percentiles, deciles or quintiles to divide the population into groups of hundreds, tenths, fifths, respectively in order of income. The income share of each group can then be compared. Box 1 Percentiles, deciles and quintiles...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...centring on a widowed teacher living in County Cork. Like many Irish writers before him, McPherson borrows from the past and exploits the uncanny in the everyday to play with the fears of his audience. But his brand of ghost storytelling also adds new elements that reflect a later twentieth-century Irish perspective. He deftly weaves the supernatural with humour, for...
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Article 45 mins