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English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...energy and nutrients must be met. This is particularly important in growing children as damage inflicted may not be reversible and can affect normal development. People whose diet lacks the necessary nutrients suffer from malnutrition, a condition that includes both over-nutrition and under-nutrition and is considered a risk factor for health. Under-nutrition [P2]...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...energy levels and productivity further, Chris Bailey has written a book on managing your time, attention and energy – The Productivity Project (2016). Or you can view his recent articles and sign up for his monthly productivity newsletter. If you need additional help in finding those blocks of time, you can use the Time Management tool in the Toolkit. This will help you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...energy that results is to invite them to pose ‘what if?’ questions. As an illustration, when you worked on the Möbius band in Activity 11, some suggestions were provided in these activities for things to try. A more open-ended (and in many ways more satisfactory) version of this activity would be to ask you to pose a series of ‘what if…’ questions for yourself....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...energy expenditure, which varies from low to high a positive correlation with physical fitness. It is important to note that physical activity and exercise are not quite the same thing. Unlike occupational and household physical activity, exercise is a form of leisure physical activity that is undertaken to achieve a particular objective, such as improved fitness and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...energy, besides. Let's start with the water. Where does it originate? NARRATOR 2 Every bottle carries a date code stamp from the production facility where it was bottled. This code shows the best before date as well as the production lot code of the process batch when it was bottled along with many other thousands of bottles which were filled during that shift. The water...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...energy was moonshine. Could never happen. The next morning, Leo Szilard invented the nuclear chain reaction, the next morning. So we have to be careful. Let’s look at nuclear fusion in particular. Long ago, they invented a method of generating unlimited amounts of energy, long ago. It’s called the hydrogen bomb. So now, fusion concentrates on containment. And AI has...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...energies rage round them in a gigantic maturity. V The time was when Liverpool was practically the sole port of entry for our human cargoes, indentured apprentices of the beautiful, the historical. With the almost immediate transference of the original transatlantic steamship interests from Bristol, Liverpool became the only place where you could arrive. American lines,...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...energy food and really good for polar explorers. But what about us mere mortals? Dr Claire Turner explains: "The Cochrane Group report in 2012 showed that consuming an amount of up to 100g of dark chocolate every day may lower your blood pressure by dilating (slightly opening) your blood vessels. This is due to compounds in dark chocolate called flavanols, which act by...
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