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Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...et al. (2018) ‘Research note: Examining the association between tree canopy, parks and crime in Chicago’, Landscape and urban planning, 170, pp. 309–313, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.07.012 Taylor, M.S. et al. (2015) ‘Research note: Urban street tree density and antidepressant prescription rates—A cross-sectional study in London, UK’, Landscape...
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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...et al., 2015). The arts are perhaps most closely connected to mental health. Research has shown that arts such as creative writing, music, and dance, have been helpful for reducing stress in a range of populations, such as refugees, survivors of abuse, and children who have experienced trauma or crisis (Carey, 2006; Malchiodi, 2020; King, 2022). Participation in the arts...
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Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cyflwyniad i efelychu digidol ym maes gofal iechyd

...et al, 2018 ac Ordu et al, 2019. Drwy integreiddio efelychiad digidol mewn hyfforddiant ac ymarfer gofal iechyd, gellir lleihau'r risg i ofal cleifion yn sylweddol, gan arwain at ddarparu gofal iechyd mwy diogel a mwy effeithiol. Gweithgaredd 2 Timing: 20 munud Rhan 1: Myfyrio Gwnewch eich nodiadau eich hun i ymateb i'r cwestiynau canlynol. Pa werth allai efelychu digidol...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...circulated. But once the yi – barbarians, as the Chinese termed foreigners – had penetrated to the heart of its interior communications, the game was up: regardless of the fact that, at around 400 million, China’s mid-century population dwarfed Britain’s 18.5 million (1841). Little more than a month later, on 29 August 1842, China signed the Treaty of Nanjing...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...Double 13 before most of us have had time to blink. This is a lot to do with practice, of course, but it is also to do with convention, knowing what the rules are. Most of us, asked to subtract 47 from 73 would, after a fairly mechanical process, produce the answer 26. For darts players, the subtraction is quicker because they've done it so often in the past, but,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...double-edged sword: as new developments occur they inevitably destabilise existing technological and organisational arrangements, and sometimes social and economic relations more broadly. One common result, for example – and one with which many of us are familiar – is what often seem to be endless cycles of organisational change, and the constant pursuit of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...et al., 2018). To be successful at extreme endurance sports requires traits of obsessive passion and dedication that can be predictors of exercise addiction. It is difficult to establish actual figures of exercise addiction as findings from studies vary widely, showing between 3 per cent and 42 per cent of participants in extreme endurance sports exhibiting traits of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...double-stranded DNA molecule. These molecules are much longer than the diameter of the nucleus, and are packaged into the nucleus by winding around proteins known as histones, which help to coil the DNA, as shown in Figure 12. This complex of DNA and proteins is known as chromatin. The binding of DNA to histones is very ordered and the degree of packing varies. The DNA is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs