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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...think it is forensics and crime labs that hold the key to solving crimes, but in real life, cases are rarely straight forward, there is often a high degree of uncertainty, and sometimes it is the verbal evidence from witnesses and victims which we have to rely upon the most. CATRIONA HAVARD I'm Catriona Havard and I'm a lecturer in Psychology, and I'm your other guide....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...think it is impossible,” he says, adding that severely degraded systems could still surprise with natural recovery if managed well. “Number two, don’t come in with a solution in the back of your head before you know what’s going on in the ground.” Pre-existing underground conditions are important. Cutting-edge technologies such as microfertilisation, in which...
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Article 20 mins
How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...systems have made updating relatively simple. If you want to ensure your machine is being kept up-to-date, here’s how to do it on some of the most common: Microsoft Windows 10 By default, Windows 10 performs regular checks for updates from Microsoft. The update is then automatically downloaded and installed on your computer. Windows will warn you if it needs to restart...
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Article 5 mins
On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...think is interesting because you are looking at different journeys and how these different journeys run parallel - the journey to the tunnel, the journey through the legal system, and also the journeys along the River Thames. There are so many different layers and relationships, ways in which the relation of the subject to the law, and the relationship of the subject to...
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Article 5 mins
Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators
Society, Politics & Law

Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators

...System (ANS) is key to our physical and psychological health and is responsible for our body’s involuntary and essential activities such responses to stress and threat (Ziegler, 2012; Glick et al., 2016). The ANS consists of two sub-systems that are considered to work opposite to each other: the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and the Parasympathetic Nervous System...
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Article 5 mins
James Smith - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Smith - Earth in Vision

...think in the late eighties there were a series of programmes not just on the BBC, but Channel 4 as well, and I remember one in particular that was called A Decade of Destruction and I think having wanted to travel and having a sense of adventure and wanting to see the world, I then saw programmes like that, that made me really care about the world and what was happening....
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Video 30 mins
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...systems are examples of web applications. Web services describes a standardised way of integrating web applications using the internet standards and protocols. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TT284 Web Technologies...An introduction to web applications architecture: Learning outcomes - After studying this course you should be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...think it's important, and why we think different people will benefit from the research findings that we're going to be coming up with. But before I go any further, let me introduce the whole research team to you. There are eight of us in all. We're a mix of geographers, sociologists, planners, designers. And we think that interdisciplinary mix is actually quite important...
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Video 10 mins