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The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...energy (supplied as heat) to boil or evaporate water, i.e., to break the bonds between the water molecules. Water is therefore described as having a high specific heat capacity, where the specific heat capacity is a measure of how much energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1 kg of a particular substance by 1 °C. This makes water fairly stable over a wide...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...energy-rich foods were rare. Now, in an environment of easy availability and little energy expenditure, indulging this preference can lead to obesity and diabetes, with their often harmful consequences. Mentally and emotionally, too, many people, particularly in urban areas and the industrialised world, now live in a hugely different environment. For instance, many of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...energy. The hospital's delay in intervening to deliver him when his mother thought something was wrong and the guilt she seemed to feel at his condition when he was born will take time to work through. Chris's experience of the world so far is of something that is alarming and not a safe place. You can see his parents reacting anxiously to him, his appearance of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...energy levels and concentration … so keeping that ... that balance of a healthy way of living is imperative for me to be the best person that I ... or the best version of myself that I can be. Film 1 Views on health (© The Open University) Discussion Bernadette’s definition of health seems to be focused around the presence of disease. In contrast, Mary and Joanna...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...energy and effort has been spent on considering leadership in a range of other contexts, leadership in policing has not been studied to the same extent (Schafer, 2009). One recent study argued that there are seven key characteristics and five key activities which define effective police leadership: Characteristics Ethical behaviour Trustworthiness Legitimacy Being a role...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...energy as different resources, has shown us that children there have a really rich and detailed understanding of the environment, but they learn about the environment in different ways and perhaps they express that environmental knowledge in different ways. And in particular there, we found that they express it in terms of questions of social justice and class related...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...energy consumed and costs related to the construction and maintenance of data infrastructures. This inevitably means they want a return on investment, since the idea of public infrastructures for communication no longer attracts much support from the neoliberal state. Such forces and material conditions constitute an ethico-political dimension that all too often goes...
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Article 15 mins
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...energy and enthusiasm in pursuing projects. Interpersonal skills: The ability to relate well to others and establish good working relationships. Numeracy: Competence and understanding of numerical data, statistics and graphs. Activity 8 Read the case study in Worksheet 4. Jack evaluates his voluntary experience and what action was taken, by using a STARE grid and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs