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QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) which is one of FIFA’s six continental governing bodies for association football. While writing this article I asked for information from CONCACAF regarding data on their head coaches but there has been no response. However, among the prominent teams in the Caribbean, which I have based on the FIFA rankings,...
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...central to the critical enterprise. To this end, notions of a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008) have been developed. This area of critical criminology is concerned with the study of international crimes, harms, and violations that have an impact on a mass or global scale – for example, war crimes, torture, genocide, crimes against humanity,...
Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...central to its practice and what makes it distinctive among other professional groups. Maintaining behavioural codes and standards of practice/conduct aimed at protecting the public are undoubtedly essential, however, social work values are perceived to be more than adhering to a set of rules. Due to the types of situations social workers encounter and must deal with,...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...central England and attending a range of early years settings. Her case studies of the children included video recordings of the children’s social play in their early years settings and in their homes, conversations with the children and interviews with practitioners and parents. Her central research question was: In what ways can child-initiated social play empower...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...Central Highlands (Grampian) Terrane Upper Proterozoic metasediments overlying gneiss. Based on metamorphic evidence, this terrane is known to have accreted to the previous two by the Early Silurian. (4) Midland Valley Terrane A series of small, discrete terranes faulted into one main region, or superterrane. The main basement is thought to be an ancient fore-arc region,...
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...central nervous system as a whole, says Paul Coleman, a medicinal chemist who works at Merck’s laboratories at West Point, Philadelphia, and who was instrumental in the development of Belsomra. “What’s so exciting about Belsomra is that it is very selective for blocking wakefulness, so it doesn’t affect the systems that control balance, memory and cognition,” he...
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...central to Socrates’s thinking was empathetic and rigorous argument. This might well be helpful to you when planning a service improvement though it would need careful handling. What you glean from the literature, from theory, or from an expert speaker, is information. It is only as you use that information, and discuss and debate it with others, that learning,...
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...central atomic nucleus with electrons arranged in shells at different distances from the nucleus. Lithium has the smallest atom of all metals. Figure 3 shows a simple representation of a lithium atom. The smaller dots represent electrons moving around the central nucleus. The large dot at the centre represents the nucleus of the lithium atom containing protons and...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs