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Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...be linked to sleep difficulties, psychological health risks, cardiovascular risks, Type 2 diabetes, respiratory complications and metabolic disorders. In adolescents, research has shown aerobic fitness and physical exercise, regardless of weight status, to be positively associated with academic performance.Prior to the pandemic the cost of physical inactivity on the NHS is £1billion per annum, with this value rising ......
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DIY: Taking the Caffeine Out of Tea
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Taking the Caffeine Out of Tea

...What you need: Pyrex test tube (borrowed from a pharmacist or school) 5 tea bags water 2 small saucepans sodium carbonate (washing soda or soda crystals, 2 teaspoonsful) about 250cm3 of corn oil (1cm3 is the same as 1ml) plastic drinking straw wooden clothes peg small sealable plastic bag measuring jug wooden spoon 2 dessert spoons teaspoon paper tissues What to do: The first step is to ......
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Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card
Society, Politics & Law

Trade Union membership cards - more than just a card

...2 Branch and that I had taken on Branch Secretary duties. New premises were later found for the Glasgow 1 and 2 union branch meetings, and the membership card for 1992 records these as taking place on the first Sunday of each month, in the Function room of the Berlin Bar, Queen Street. I recall these meetings as regularly having other women present, in particular from the...
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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...2 Diner, H. (1984) Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Donnelly, J.S., (2002) The Great Irish Potato Famine, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Ltd. Doorley, M. (2000), ‘Irish Catholics and French Creoles: ethnic struggles within the Catholic Church in New Orleans,...
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Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...2 reviews ideas of conditional probabilities and introduces Bayes’ theorem and its use in updating beliefs about a proposition, when data are observed, or information becomes available. Section 3 introduces the main ideas of the Bayesian inference process. The prior distribution summarises beliefs about the value of a parameter before data are observed. The likelihood...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...2), just before the COVID-19 lockdowns during which emissions fell significantly before gradually rising again. [Pie chart showing average person's greenhouse gas footprint split by component e.g. Food, Travel.]Figure 2 Main components of an average UK inhabitant’s carbon footprint. For home, domestic energy use is the main component, for travel it is car travel and...
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Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...2: It’s all a matter of timing Another reason to consider embodied carbon is the temporal aspect, or timing, of emissions. Take a look at Box 1 for an illustrative example! Box 1: Carbon emissions of replacement windows, the timing aspect Lifecycle emissions tend to be calculated over the predicted lifetime of the object. Going back to our windows. Let’s say that: -...
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Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...2.)...Assistive technologies and online learning: 1.1 What do you know about assistive technology? - In this activity, you will explore a number of different assistive technologies, including IT hardware, non-IT hardware, built-in software, and specialist software. You may be familiar with some of the technologies already. Box 1 Assistive technology list Information...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs