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Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?

...et al., 2020). An injury to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in the knee has received special attention from researchers and the media due to its potential severity and because females are at a higher risk of sustaining the injury (Marmura, Bryant and Getgood, 2021). A study by Montalvo et al. (2019) found that female football players had more than double the...
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Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...et al, 2022a). However, research has shown that juries can be subject to biases that can impact the decision-making process when rendering a verdict (Willmott, 2019). These biases can include pre-trial publicity bias (Ruva & Coy, 2020), racial bias (Curley et al, 2022b), rape myth bias (Dinos et al, 2014), and social media influence (Taylor & Tarrant, 2019), all of which...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...et al., 2022). However, even for Reading Teachers, motivating disengaged readers is not easy. Some of these young people will have been demonstrating their disinterest for years, separating themselves from the keen readers – those they may perceive as ‘boffins’ – and adopting an indifferent or negative attitude to reading. Many actively claim and sustain the...
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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...et al., 2024). The course will also include findings from other published work focussing on the management of children’s pain in hospital. [Described image] Figure 1 Framework for delivering effective pain management (Simons et al., 2020) Hospital experiences often involve pain, with up to 80% of hospitalised children having at least one painful procedure every 24...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...et al., 2018). Estimates of the worldwide prevalence of ADHD are around 6 in 100 children and adolescents and 3 in 100 adults (Spencer et al., 2002; Moffitt et al., 2015). What do you notice about prevalence rates in the two age groups? Around twice as many children and adolescents have ADHD compared with adults. This difference in prevalence was initially thought to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...Et toi ? (informal) Fine/very well, thanks. And you? Ça va (bien), merci. Et vous ? (formal) Fine/very well, thank you. And you?...Week 1: Say hello: ‘Bonjour!’: 2 Say goodbye: ‘Au revoir !’ - You’ll now listen to different ways of taking leave of someone. Activity 2 You have just learnt that ‘salut !’ is informal and can mean either ‘hello’ or...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Accessibility statement for OpenLearn
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Accessibility statement for OpenLearn

...axe DevTools. This testing is focused on our main template pages (home, catalogue, course, article pages). We have conducted a manual survey of the site for video transcripts and set up a system report for alternative text for images. We have also conducted an automated preliminary sample audit of 23 popular and important pages of the site. The latest testing of this...
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...et al. (2019) ‘Patterns of genetic differentiation and the footprints of historical migrations in the Iberian Peninsula’, Nature Communications 10(551). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08272-w Chacón-Duque, JC., Adhikari, K., Fuentes-Guajardo, M. et al. (2018) ‘Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry...
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