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The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...mental health disorders. The gut microbiome is the largest and most diverse of the microbiomes and is particularly important in maintaining optimal health. However, there are numerous factors which can affect the balance of the microorganisms in the gut microbiome, such as genetics, age, menopause, pollutants, and diet. The microorganisms of the gut microbiome are located...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...mental health and wellbeing. I think that when you're in the interview process, it's very much a two-way street. I think a lot of people think it's a one-way street or traditionally it has been. But I think in our day, we have the choice of saying no if that company, if you don't believe that you're going to thrive there or that your role there won't be pleasing to you, I...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential. b. The development of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and for the principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. c. The development of respect for the child’s parents, his or her own cultural identity, language and values, for the national values of the country in which the child is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...mentality, in which the operations function loses contact with external customers and suppliers, and focuses only on the transformation process that it controls. A closed system tends to limit flexibility and result in a loss of competitiveness. An ‘open system’ mentality, in which communication with customers and suppliers is encouraged, seeks to reduce the barriers...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...mental representations of the world and felt that cognitive development proceeds through a series of predefined biological steps that are stimulated through physical interaction with the world. This theory, because it partially focuses on biological maturation, predicts that all children across the world should go through these stages in the same order and around the same...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury
Society, Politics & Law

Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury

...mental state of President Trump. Here, Wolff’s relationship with Steve Bannon offers an illuminating and, one would hope, honest take – especially given Bannon’s political fallout with both Trump and the Mercer family. There seems nowhere else to start other than Wolff’s now infamous ‘Author’s Note’ at the beginning of the book. In it, Wolff discusses the...
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Article 5 mins
An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...mental violence against women at its centre. At the same time, the commercial success of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, released during the Covid-19 pandemic, seemed to indicate a yearning among many readers for the cosy crime fiction of an earlier age. The next twists in the ongoing plot of European crime fiction remain a mystery. Find out more If you...
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Article 5 mins
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...mental pressures in their respective careers (p.9). However, it was not so much the violence of the stories that intrigued Gallagher as the psychological aspects – something that his brother Dónal emphasised in a 2002 interview: He loved the intelligence of the criminal […] The human intelligence. The human psyche. The deviousness of the mind. As opposed to being...
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Article 5 mins