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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...C depending on the individual child’. Participants talked of the importance of both ‘involving them (child and family) in the conversations at the bedside’ and treating the ‘family as a whole, making sure that they have plenty of information so that they know what to expect’...Promoting the effective management of children’s pain: 3.1 Parent leaflet - An...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...la vuelta al cole”: millions of youngsters returning to school, or for some at the age of three, suffering their first experience of classrooms and education. The costs of providing returning and new students with the texts they will need to complete the 2016 curricula in the public and other state assisted schools preoccupies the Spanish electorate at the start of each...
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Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...C to reduce contamination. This was critical because the landers carried a gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GCMS) intended to look for organic matter that might be indicative of life. [A Viking lander and scientists in a cleanroom]The Viking lander being prepared for sterilisation procedures as part of the mission’s Planetary Protection procedures (then called...
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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...c. 427–347 bce) did not write long essays or treatises. Most of his philosophical works are written as dialogues, in which a small group of characters discuss a philosophical question. The dialogues are usually set in the recent past, and the other characters are often real people – prominent public figures, whom his readers might well have known. It is as if a...
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Article 10 mins
Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Co-production – challenges and opportunities for the Higher Education curriculum

...C, Casey H, Duffy J, (2021) The Routledge Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education. Routledge (London). Needham C and Carr S., (2009) Co production: An Emerging Evidence Base for Adult Social Care Transformation (researchgate.net). Ostrom, V. and Ostrom, E (1977) ‘Public Goods and Public Choices’ in E. S. Savas (ed.) Alternatives...
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Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...c. Developed economics are switching from defined benefits to defined contribution schemes d. Higher income tax rates on dividends e. Increased regulation on insurance companies f. The 2008 crash made investors wary of equities which was riskier than bonds g. Basel 2 and 3 regulations penalises financial institutions for holding equities h. Reduced wealth in emerging...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...C at altitude, ‘bleeds’ into the aircraft air control system via the engines and is then filtered and heated to the appropriate temperature for use in the cabin. The air exchange rate is quite high, with a total volume of cabin air exchanged every 2-3 minutes, requiring a system which is constantly switched on. The engines drive the system using excess heat and the...
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Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...c) a dolphin These adaptations are so effective that it is now believed that cetacean swimming is pretty near as cost-effective (in terms of metabolic energy expended for distance travelled) as the running of land animals. Swimming at the surface is more expensive, however, as is the swimming of semi-aquatic mammals such as otters. It appears that economic running and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs