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Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...et al. (1997) Eckert Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations, W. H. Freeman and Company © Figure 6: Adapted from Schmidt-Nielson (1975), Animal Physiology, Adaptation and Environment, Cambridge University Press and reprinted in Randall et al. (1997) Eckert Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations, W. H. Freeman and Company Figure 6 Graph ......
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...adapted from © Nitschke et al. (2009) ‘Anticipatory activation in the amygdale and anterior cingulated in generalized anxiety disorder and prediction of treatment response’, American Journal of Psychiatry; Figure 13: Caspi, A., Sugden, K., Moffitt, T.E., Taylor, A., Craig, I.W., Harrington, H., McClay, J., Mill, J., Martin, J., Braithwaite, A. and Poulton, R. (2003)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...adapted from Mueller et al., 2017). You should be able to see from Activity 7 that the involvement of various neurotransmitters and brain regions in ADHD is very complex. At present it is not clear what changes, if any, take place in ADHD for all of the different neurotransmitters and brain regions shown in Figure 8. It is likely that, as for other conditions involving...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...adaptive contexts, our studies reconceptualise SEL as an evolving, situated capacity nurtured through care, agency and resilience in response to adversity. To demonstrate the relevance of SEL in Catch-Up Learning, two contrasting examples highlight the need to reflect on and advance educational theory in the complex contexts of humanitarian settings (Okada, 2025). An...
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Article 5 mins
The immune system
Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

...adaptive immunity. All animals, even those with much simpler bodies than our own (e.g. parasitic worms) respond to tissue damage or infection in ways that resemble inflammation in humans. They have cells similar to leukocytes and defensive proteins that flood into areas of tissue damage or infection. These leukocytes and proteins can defend the organism from pathogens...
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Article 10 mins
Evolution
Science, Maths & Technology

Evolution

...adapted to their environment in different ways. The five video tracks in this album explore the key concepts of evolutionary science and investigate how these account for the characteristics of arctic reindeer. How do natural selection and other evolutionary processes produce changes in genes? How do new species originate? And how are large-scale evolutionary patterns...
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Audio 25 mins
Titty or Tatty: What's in a name?
Languages

Titty or Tatty: What's in a name?

...adaptation of the ‘Swallows and Amazons’ book series, sparked controversy after it was revealed that one of the characters was being renamed ‘Tatty’ instead of ‘Titty’. It’s not the first time that an adaptation of the book changed the name - The BBC’s 1963 version of Swallows and Amazons referred to the character as Kitty. So why should we care now? The...
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Article 5 mins
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...et al. (2013) ‘A new paradigm for adaptive management’, Ecology and Society, vol. 18, no. 4, art. 63. Figure 3: Photo by Jamie Street/Unsplash Audio/Video Video 1: Documentation of Manual Drilling in Lagos and beyond by Rural Water Supply Network. https://vimeo.com/107047730. http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 3.0/ Every effort has been made to contact...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs