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Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?

...opening ceremony (Telegraph Sport, 2021). So, what effect does the postponement have on the athletes and their preparation? This article will explore some of the psychological and physiological impacts of this unusual situation. [Tokyo 2020 sports silhouettes] What impact did the postponement have? Obviously, there is variability in how athletes reacted to the...
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Article 10 mins
OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...opening and deleting calculator files On the Summary screen follow the instructions at the bottom. For example: To save your existing footprint file. Select the upper box, type the name of the file you want to keep (eg, ExistingFootprint1). Select ‘Save’ To open ExistingFootprint1 (or any other file that you’ve named). Select the down arrow in the lower box, select...
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Article 5 mins
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...Open University course B858 Introduction to corporate finance...Estimating the cost of equity: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: select and justify a suitable risk-free rate and equity risk premium for use in determining the expected return for a share evaluate the different approaches to identifying a suitable equity risk premium use...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...opening new avenues for exploring human motivation, desire, and the hidden dimensions of psychological experience. Evidence of this movement can be found in both twentieth and twenty first century Irish Gothic fiction and is particularly highlighted in the work of Irish novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Bowen. [Photograph of Sigmund Freud]Photograph of Sigmund...
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Article 45 mins
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch's Foundation....Week 2: Unique properties of water: Introduction - JANET Welcome to Week 2. Your experiments so far have shown us two important things-- water can make up a large amount of the content of an everyday food, and water can pass through semipermeable barriers such as cell walls. That means that the water content...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Who is Justin Trudeau - and how did he become Canada's new Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Justin Trudeau - and how did he become Canada's new Prime Minister?

...resources to understanding the causes of terrorism. He later alienated many progressives when his party supported the Harper government’s controversial counter-terrorism legislation, Bill C-51. Justin Trudeau’s stumbles and lack of political experience provided space for the Harper Conservatives to try to diminish him further in the mind of the public. Hence, a series...
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Is Brazil's future Utopia now a thing of the past?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Brazil's future Utopia now a thing of the past?

...resources, rich agricultural land and human capital in its well-developed southern and central regions. De Gaulle’s ironic addition referred to the difficulty in making good use of these advantages. When I returned to Brazil as U.S. ambassador in mid-1994, it seemed as if optimism was winning out. The newly elected government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso had...
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