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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...physically inactive, and this can have a negative impact on a person’s health. In this free course, Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?, you will be encouraged to consider the impact of social, cultural, political and economic factors that influence obesity in adulthood. You will also investigate whether a focus on lifestyles and a person’s behaviours...
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...physics of how the bridge stands up but wouldn't have had the confidence to do it. High powered computers have given us that confidence by allowing us to test our calculations. The structure is so fine that, when people stand on the bridge, they'll feel as if they're hovering over the water.’ The importance of the bridge to tourism was emphasised by Lord Foster: ‘When...
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...Physical technical systems - This is the most tangible part of a capability. The machines, databases and software acquired or developed over time are probably the only part of a capability that does not disappear once an organisation’s employees leave a building. The physical system is made up of many widely available machines, but some machines may have undergone...
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...physical and mental pain. It is because of this diversity of purpose that building employee engagement is problematic. Managers must make strategic choices about how to engage employees in the hope of winning their commitment and encouraging them to expend discretionary effort in their work. But it is important to recognise that any such interventions will depend on an...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...physical environment of a deep-sea vent, now watch Video 5 from the BBC series Planet Earth, and answer the questions that follow. NARRATOR The floor of the Atlantic Ocean is split in two by an immense volcanic mountain chain that winds, unbroken, for 45 000 miles around the globe. In places, it's riven by great fissures, from which superheated water loaded with dissolved...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...physically making it. When used as part of an overall design process it can change how people design and how they work together in a project. Roundabouts: the roundabout is an example of a product that is also part of a designed system (the road system), and perhaps even a process (of dealing with traffic at intersections). It shows how a change at the product level can...
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...physical values between the International Space Station (ISS), the Earth and the Moon...Welcome to this free badged open course on Microgravity! This course will be covering questions such as, how does the International Space Station (ISS) orbit the Earth? Is circular motion involved? What about the forces? Are they pushing or pulling the ISS to the Earth? What would...
Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Men’s grief and belonging through football following perinatal loss

...physical absence of the baby did not mean they were not part of their family’s history. Indeed, many men suggested that while they could not do many of the things a parent might do such as play football with their child as they grew, it still meant they could play for them. What’s next? Thanks to the fathers who participated in this study, we were able to gather a...