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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...simple answer to this question. It is certainly true that some extremes carry some risks. Low agreeableness is associated with violence, whilst high neuroticism is associated with the risk of depression and anxiety. However, all the systems whose operation is reflected in personality differences are there for a reason. Anxiety and fear are good things to have (at least a...
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Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...simple tune...Find out more about The Open University's Music courses and qualifications Music can be appreciated in a number of different ways and on a number of different levels. For some people, music is essentially a sensual, physical experience – the urge to move the body and to dance to certain pieces of music can often prove irresistible. For other people,...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...simple repetitive jobs or crawl into spaces too small for adults. It took Evangelical philanthropists like Shaftesbury to urge the Factory Acts through Parliament, limiting the hours that children were allowed to work in factories, mines and cleaning chimneys. So neglect and exploitation may have existed but were accepted. What about cruelty, then - was that deemed...
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Developing (as) a research team
Education & Development

Developing (as) a research team

...simple answer is (perhaps) the diverse group of people who are undertaking the research. Transcript. The advantages of having a diverse group of people involved in any activity are well documented and underpin many of the arguments behind EDI initiatives. You are drawing on a wide range of life experiences, cultures, languages, insights and practices. As a result, you all...
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Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...simple and quite complex. It is simple because, like learning, we all do it – it is really nothing more than thinking back over something that you or someone else has done. Reflection can also serve as a guide for future action – we learn from thinking back over our experiences and deciding whether or not to repeat them. For example, if we have a great meal at a...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...simple but it makes a big difference in terms of ethos. It makes you feel very comfortable. Some of the staff wear badges to symbolize that they are Welsh speakers. That's really nice because when you see that badge it's then easy to speak to them in Welsh. I think that the Welsh language service is essential because it's important to use Welsh from day to day. It means a...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...simple, single-celled cyanobacteria about 2–3 billion years ago. After this ‘Great Oxygenation Event’ many more complex, multi-celled organisms were able to evolve to take advantage of the changed environment. The weather One way that the atmosphere impacts us all is through ‘weather’. Weather is simply the day-to-day change in the atmosphere around us. The...
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...simple artistic representation of the collison hypothesis model for the formation of the Moon ] Fig. 2: Simple artistic step-by-step representation of the collision hypothesis model for the formation of the Moon over approximately 10s to 100s of thousands of years using Universe Sandbox. a) Mars-sized object (Theia) impacts a hot early-Earth at 45 degrees, within the...
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