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Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...sustained for a long time. A heart that pumps a lot of blood per pump already when resting doesn't have to increase the rate as much during exercise. Hence it can keep going for long periods while still pumping lots of blood. For athletes in almost any sport, an efficient heart is an advantage. Athletes also train so that the arteries actually become larger, allowing...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...sustain relationships and achieve something together that each organisation could not have achieved alone – collaborative advantage. In the following activity, you will work with the idea that leading within a collaboration can be thought of through the metaphor of nurturing a garden. You will apply this metaphor to your own context. Activity 7 Nurturing the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...sustainability. This fits in with a wider movement to include attention to the consequences of research on the environment. This has been captured in a Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice (EAUC, n.d.). The UK research and innovation (R&I) sector have co-developed a voluntary environmental sustainability concordat. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...sustained flight was more likely to be achieved imitating the flight of birds, rather than by using human-powered wing movement. His subsequent research led to designs for a glider. Drawings show the wings as bat-like in shape and structure, streamlined to their most basic form. Attached directly to the body of the pilot, the outer parts of the wing were flexible. These...
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Article 30 mins
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...sustainable resource management. The end of apartheid has also contributed to the crafting of water reforms that encourage local participation in decision-making. However, it is a slow process and, in certain places, landowners who still favour the lucrative planting of invasive species (for example, pines for timber production) benefit from preferential water charges....
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...sustaining basis, or at least to mitigate its losses. We shall help both West Pakistan and Bangla Desh, and also help in the consortium for India." The Prime Minister then posed a philosophical question. "We are moving more and more into a state of world affairs where effective action is no longer possible. How much can you do? The President replied "the Soviets have...
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Article 15 mins
Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...Sustainable Energy for All and was named by Forbes magazine among the most influential people on the world’s energy scene. He is the recipient of numerous awards from governments from all parts of the world. A Turkish citizen, Dr. Birol was born in Ankara in 1958. After initially studying power engineering at the University of Istanbul, he went on to receive a MSc and...
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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...sustainable programmes where activities and services are not over-dependent on the skills and time of a few key staff; opportunities for services that have a different ethos from school activities and present themselves as ‘teacher-free’ zones. Explore how your school is responding to one of these intiatives in Activity 4. Activity 4 It is outside the scope of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs