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Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...et al., 2018). To be successful at extreme endurance sports requires traits of obsessive passion and dedication that can be predictors of exercise addiction. It is difficult to establish actual figures of exercise addiction as findings from studies vary widely, showing between 3 per cent and 42 per cent of participants in extreme endurance sports exhibiting traits of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...et al’s definition of architecture based on the work by Shaw and Garlan: Software architecture encompasses the set of significant decisions about the organization of a software system including the selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the system is composed; behaviour as specified in collaboration among those elements; composition of these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...et al. (2000) The occurrence of deserts on a worldwide basis …, Environmental Physiology of Animals, Chapter 14. Blackwell Science Limited © Willmer et al. (2000) The occurrence of deserts on a worldwide basis …, Environmental Physiology of Animals, Chapter 14. Blackwell Science Limited Figure 1 Locations of deserts worldwide showing the broad latitudinal belts north...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...institutions to let other companies have access to the financial data of their clients, if the client gives specific permission to do so. And what it really is about, is about individuals taking back control over their data. When we talk about the circular economy, when people talk about data capitalism, there’s a recognition that the data about an individual, not just...
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Article 10 mins
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...institutions for official status and funding. That campaign would become one of the key factors often forgotten in the lead-up to the Good Friday Agreement. Many within the Irish speaking community viewed the demand for official status for the school as a ‘litmus test’ for the British Government, a real-time indicator for how ‘parity of esteem’ and ‘equality’...
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Article 5 mins
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...institutions (policing, judicial and penal systems) that make up the criminal justice system in most national contexts in the Global North. This data reveals the significant disproportion and over-representation of Black and minority ethnic (BME) populations in all negative or unfavourable categories; for example, stop-and-search, arrests, convictions, custodial...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...Institute In the next section you’ll investigate how the expressive power of infographics can be realised to help researchers compete for attention when disseminating research results. You’ll also study the ways in which the power of infographics can be harnessed to mislead, either intentionally or unintentionally...The power of infographics in research dissemination:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...institutions, markets, government regulation and other regulation, and the habits, routines, and systems that we construct to make organisations function. Often, we distinguish between macro organisational behaviour, the study of organisations in their wider social, political, and economic contexts, and micro organisational behaviour, the study of individuals' behaviour...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs