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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...physics at a university in Europe. She was also the first woman to be offered an official teaching position at a university in Europe. However, these positions were said to be honorary and not intended to set a precedent for other women. Bassi was not allowed to participate in the day to day business of the academy and while the university professorship was created...
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Article 15 mins
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...physical environment, particularly technology and levels of security employed. This free course, School business manager: Developing the role, will look at how you, an existing or aspiring business manager, can work effectively to support school activities and stakeholders, and in particular how you can support and manage aspects of the change agenda in your school to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...physical gestures pictures podcast radio sign language Skype speech telephone text touch TV Twitter voice-simulator and many more...Good communication: 1.1 Barriers to communication - Good communication is vital in social care. It enables us to build relationships with the people we care for and their families, develop relationships with people we work with and other...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...physical Dealing with uncertainty. risk taking Being secure in a job. stability Words: 0 Footnotes (adapted from Career Planning Workbook 2019 and Succeed in the workplace BOC) Next, write down the values that you scored as most important (rated 4) and those that you scored as least important (1 or 2). For example, if ‘Being original, developing new ideas’ was scored...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...physics of laser diodes is such that the output wavelength varies with the electrical current. So as the electrical current is switched from high to low, and vice versa, the output wavelength also varies. This effect is called chirp, and results in an increase in the spectral width of the laser output. Chirp can be avoided by running the laser continuously at a constant...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
‘There Were Four of Us’
History & The Arts

‘There Were Four of Us’

...physically repellent, despite Cyr’s attractiveness: she froths at the mouth during the séance, Shelley has a vision of her with eyes in her nipples, and in a typical moment of Russellian Grand Guignol, Byron bullies her at dinner by squeezing her cheeks viciously, forcing the spaghetti she’s eating to pour grotesquely from her mouth in close-up. Worse still, she...
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How testosterone affects risk taking behaviour
Science, Maths & Technology

How testosterone affects risk taking behaviour

...physical characteristics such as greater amounts of body hair, having a deep voice, and a larger body size with a greater muscle mass. But it is important to recognise that testosterone levels are also associated with male psychological characteristics such as dominant, aggressive and risk taking behaviour. Research has shown that testosterone has particular effects...
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Article 10 mins
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?

...physical colour, masculine in nature that can stimulate and raise pulse while also carrying with it negative links to defiance and aggression. Blue on the other hand is viewed as the colour of the mind and with that comes connotations of efficiency, logic, coolness and comfort. Valdez and Mehrabian (1994) also found that individuals were likely to attribute emotional...
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