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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...account our ability to digest different foods in different ways. Atwater’s numbers say that Tara Haelle can extract 8.9 calories per gram of fat in a plate of her favourite Tex-Mex refried beans; the modified table shows that, thanks to the indigestibility of some of the plant fibres in legumes, she only gets 8.3 calories per gram. Depending on the calorie-measuring...
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How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...accountable, it is the state which has a legal obligation for ‘due diligence’ to protect black and minority ethnic women and girls from honour based violence. Prevention has to be accompanied by protection and provision. Even action within communities hostile to patriarchy or the power base of its conservative male leadership, such as BME women and girls’ services...
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An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...account of beliefs and actions. Strength of purpose and the ability to implement these values. Social work values are not then considered as a mechanistic adherence to rules and regulations but will involve the exploration of your personal value base and motivations to work with people who may be vulnerable or disadvantaged in some way. However, there are broad themes...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...account opportunism in respect of property dealings within modern capitalist society. Opportunism thus represents negative, immoral or unethical aspects that arise under capitalism as the prevailing form of economic organisation in England and Wales. The second section will then develop this evaluation of equity further in terms of the contemporary economic context. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Finding a voice after Brexit

...account. A third question concerns our role in teaching. Brexit and Trump have amplified particular discursive frames: political correctness, expertise, liberalism, identity politics, globalisation. All serve as condensates for the mobilisation by the political right of dangerous ideas such as white strength, greatness, control, the people and the ‘other’. Such frames...
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Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...account the wider social and psychological factors affecting their clients’ lives (see the article ‘Do we need to change the way we are thinking about mental illness?’). There is also no doubt that many service users have found relief from distressing symptoms through taking prescribed medication. Nevertheless, the mental health field has a long history of vigorous...
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Is norovirus an economic threat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is norovirus an economic threat?

...account for over $22 billion each year. Europe nearly $8 billion. Africa over $3.8 billion. South and East Asia over $6.7 billion. And the Western Pacific region close to $9 billion. The study authors were Sarah M. Bartsch, MPH, Benjamin A. Lopman, PhD, Sachiko Ozawa, MHS, PhD, Aron J. Hall, DVM, MSPH, Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA. These figures probably underestimate the costs...
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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...accounted for less than 1 per cent. The new automatic factory could not be adapted to the new situation until alternative product with big sales volume could be developed, and the scale of research and development, based on the type of market analysis required to identify these, was beyond the scope of existing resources of the company either in people or in funds....
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