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Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...physical development. Building a strong, communicative relationship with parents is equally important as it ensures consistency, trust, and mutual support between the home and nursery environments. This collaboration significantly benefits the child’s overall development and wellbeing, creating a holistic support system that nurtures the child in their most formative...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...physical. It’s social. And indeed it’s spiritual. So those elements create health and wellbeing. And of course the determinants of health, we now know, very clearly lie outside of individual behaviours. They lie in a multitude of factors. So for me health is a feeling of wellbeing. Irrespective of what my physical health may indicate and the limitations I may have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...physics of the Earth”. Key to this idea of a “unity of nature” was the geographical link between the organisms and specimens that had been collected, and the measurements of the physical world that had been made with instrumentation. A focus on geography required him to develop new techniques, such as isotherms, for displaying his observations and they allowed him...
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Article 20 mins
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...physical properties (solubility, size, lipophilicity) that necessarily accompany effectiveness and selectivity in vivo. Much of the lead optimisation process, which involves the iterative synthesis of analogue structures to hone the activity of a molecule, balanced with appropriate physicochemical properties required to achieve good pharmacokinetic (what the body does to...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Marketing food to children and young people: Why it matters even more in the digital age
Education & Development

Marketing food to children and young people: Why it matters even more in the digital age

...physical activity or healthy food supply. In addition to all these – and interacting with them – is the promotion (marketing and advertising) of unhealthy foods in the media and elsewhere, which has been shown to increase children’s eating. From their earliest days, children recognise more unhealthy than healthy food brand logos, knowledge that increases rapidly...
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Article 10 mins
OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics and Rhian Chapman (@RhianInSPACE ), PhD student, will look at the challenges of landing on the Red Planet and markers of life there. Transcript Dr Lewis will question why missions fly to Mars, why it is so hard to land there and what the recent European Space Agency ExoMars 2016 mission found...
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Article 5 mins
Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit
Money & Business

Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit

...Physical and digital wellbeing Change management You'll also hear contributors from higher education institutions, public bodies, businesses, and other organisations share their journeys towards new ways of working, alongside expert voices in sustainability and futures planning. Hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg. | Also available in Welsh. Free online courses Articles and...
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Article 5 mins
The science of chocolate
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of chocolate

...physical activity and need a quick energy boost, but is it so good for the rest of us? This is a good question. The Cochrane Group report in 2012 showed that consuming an amount of up to 100g of dark chocolate every day may lower your blood pressure by dilating (slightly opening) your blood vessels. This is due to compounds in dark chocolate called flavanols, which act by...
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Video 5 mins