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Type 1 diabetes - a long-term condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Type 1 diabetes - a long-term condition

...manage their symptoms? Type 1 diabetes occurs when insulin producing cells are destroyed, and the body can no longer produce the insulin needed to control sugar levels in the blood. It can develop at any age, but most commonly emerges in childhood. Diabetics must ensure that they don’t have too much or too little sugar in their blood as either extreme can cause medical...
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Video 23 mins
Air Pollution
Science, Maths & Technology

Air Pollution

...management and looks at how we analyse pollution control problems. Five video tracks review the nature and characteristics of air pollution today and demonstrate how air quality data is interpreted. They include a comparison between shipping and car emission levels, the processes used to remove pollutants from the air, and ways in which British Aerospace could limit its...
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Audio 26 mins
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...management in creating a successful customer experience...Understanding your customers: 1.1 Session learning outcomes - After studying this session, you should be able to: describe the importance of understanding customers to your professional and personal effectiveness explain marketing as a process whereby customers and suppliers exchange things of mutual value analyse...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...management, soil and hydrology. Once you understand what you’re looking for, you can almost read them like a book. Most sites support more than one plant community because the environment is variable (e.g. some patches are wetter than others) and dynamic (e.g. some years are wetter than others.) [Described image] Figure 4 Species rich floodplain meadow plant community...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...managed to leave the body. Surprise, surprise: while bloodletting could help, the best cure was having sex. Sex would open up the body and move the retained blood around. It’s interesting that the idea of a “disease” worked for those who believed in the hymen as a barrier, and for those who didn’t. The latter thought that the problem was a different sort of...
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Article 10 mins
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...management and dynamic organizational strategies. It also is complicated by new challenges such as globalization, corporate social responsibility and growing demands for diversity. Moreover, it connects up to rising questions over whether a consumer service mentality is appropriate in all and every contexts – especially organizations ostensibly aimed at the public...
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Article 5 mins
Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...managed without need of lockdowns. Therefore, this hub has a wider remit to provide supportive resources for beyond current dilemmas such as economic disruptions caused by trade problems and conflicts, climate change, or social and political upheavals, all of which could psychologically impact organisations and the people working in them in the short to medium term. This...
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Article 10 mins
European Championships 2020: Can one of the home nations end 55 years of hurt ?
Health, Sports & Psychology

European Championships 2020: Can one of the home nations end 55 years of hurt ?

...manager Roberto Mancini and are riding on the back of a 25-match unbeaten streak after failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Rather than selecting players from the Milan teams and Juventus, this squad is made up with players from a range of Italian clubs, such as Andrea Belotti from Torino, and players from Napoli, Atalanta and Lazio. There are several teams who fall...
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Article 10 mins