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Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...artificial' photoperiod was shifted by six hours either forward or backward, differed from those of non-shifted pigeons by about 90 degrees. [Described image] Figure 27 Rock pigeon...Migration: 6 The challenges of migration - In studying this course it will have become apparent that migration involves a diversity of behaviours and physiological adaptations, many of which...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...artificial has connections with Enlightenment ideas about nature and the concept of the ‘noble savage’. But by the end of the eighteenth century this elevation of the simple and the natural was taking on a new dimension that can be seen as Romantic, because of its association with individual feeling and experience. In England Wordsworth was its chief exponent,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...artificially set up) criteria for one condition and others matching the criteria for the other condition. Activity 8 Identifying an odds ratio Timing: Allow 5 minutes Look at Figure 12. What is the odds ratio that ‘any anxiety disorder’ will be present in people who have major depression? What does this mean? Answer The odds ratio that ‘any anxiety disorder’ will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...artificial ventilation of the lungs to regulate their breathing rate...Blood and the respiratory system: 6.2 Peripheral chemoreceptors - Before the blood reaches the chemoreceptors in the brain, changes in PO2 are detected by specialised cells – called type 1 glomus cells – that are located in the carotid artery (carotid bodies) and aorta (aortic bodies) of the heart....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. * Learning difficulties A difficulty with learning. Examples might include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyspraxia and autism for instance. * Multi-disciplinary team Professionals and practitioners form a number of different...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...Intelligence Quotient (IQ). This is a standardised way of measuring intelligence using tests of both verbal and non-verbal ability. The IQ of people with autism ranges from scores of 70 and below, which corresponds to a profound intellectual disability, to 100, which is the average IQ for any population, to 130 and above, which corresponds to high or extremely high IQ. [A...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...intelligent people in a way that is of use to them, was a skill way apart from the things I’d covered before. And my degree, the reflective part of my degree, the way the degree helped me to structure information, was absolutely crucial. And so I didn’t use my technological computing degree, well, certainly not in all senses in my training services, in some small way...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...intelligence, resilience, perseverance, a sense of good wellbeing. Within the family (the mesosystem): an emotionally responsive home with settled routines, good relationships, and all physical needs met. In Session 3, you will look at the important process of attachment. You will understand how the building of secure attachments in the early years can help to develop...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs