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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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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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Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...course we're really talking about girls and mothers here, since the debate is highly gendered).Want to know more about childhood? There's an OU course on that... Campaigners and even some researchers go on to blame these goods for a mind-boggling range of social ills, from lack of self-esteem to bodily dissatisfaction to low academic attainment, and (in what seems a...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...course of the century and, in many ways, Gothic writing developed in response to it. The political instability of previous centuries also continued to haunt Irish society and contributed to something of a national identity crisis. As Kevin Whelan puts it, “In Ireland the appeal to the past inevitably worried old wounds on which the scar tissue had never fully...
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OpenLearn Cymru ewch â'ch dysgu ymhellach
OpenLearn Cymru Wales

OpenLearn Cymru ewch â'ch dysgu ymhellach

...Dysgwch fwy am y Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru a phorwch trwy ein dewis llawn o gyrsiau a chymwysterau www.open.ac.uk/courses Mwy o gyrsiau am ddim yn Gymraeg Ewch i Y Porth – y prif lwyfan ar gyfer darparu a rheoli darpariaeth cyfrwng Cymraeg i fyfyrwyr y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Datblygwyd yr adnoddau addysgol ar y Porth gan staff dysgu’r prifysgolion yng Nghymru....
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A reader's guide to Cold Comfort Farm
Health, Sports & Psychology

A reader's guide to Cold Comfort Farm

...course and offered itself to parody. Writers such as Mary Webb irritated her, so she offered an alternative vision of country living. Stock characters – the religious bigot, the overbearing matriarch, the local Lothario etc. – were reinvented. There are passages which mock the style of D.H. Lawrence: note, for example, the characters Mr Mybug and Seth Starkadder....
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Structural Integrity: Materials Testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Structural Integrity: Materials Testing

...course T357, Structural integrity: designing against failure... Structural Integrity: Materials Testing A short introduction to this album. Photoelasticity A technique that allows us to visualise the magnitude of stress occurring inside a material. Testing Materials: Beam Measuring the response of the material to an applied load. Drilling holes The method for measuring...
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Soaring Achievements
Science, Maths & Technology

Soaring Achievements

...course MST209, Mathematical methods and models... Soaring Achievements A short introduction to this album. Gliding - an Introduction A brief history of the sport of gliding- flying an airplane without an engine. What factors affect a glider's performance. Mathematical Modelling The role of mathematical modelling in gliding, focusing on The British Overseas Nationals, a...
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