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A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...et al., 2018). At any given time, one in six working-age adults have symptoms associated with mental ill health (McManus et al., 2016). There are 72 million working days lost every year due to mental health, costing the UK economy £74–£99 billion (Centre for Mental Health, 2017; Department for Work and Pensions and Department of Health and Social Care , 2017)....
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Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...double helix” ON SCREEN: “1956: Colin Murdoch invents disposable syringes” --as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS, I could highlight at least two or three major discoveries every decade. ON SCREEN: “1965: Frank Pantridge invents portable defibrillator” ON SCREEN: “1973: Godfrey Houndsfield invents CAT scanner” ON SCREEN: “1989: umbilical-cord...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...doubled up – there are two (NO3) units for every calcium. To summarise, the formula represents one calcium atom, two nitrogen atoms and six oxygen atoms. The reason for writing Ca(NO3 )2 rather than CaN2O6 is that, in the compound calcium nitrate, each one of the two nitrogen atoms is attached to three oxygen atoms. Thus the chemical formula can convey some structural...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...et al., 2019). In terms of water, ‘livestock’ farming often depends on irrigation using finite fresh water supplies. Animal-protein production has been calculated to use more than four times as much water as the most intensively-irrigated plant-based protein production (Reynolds et al., 2014). Globally, ‘livestock’ farming is responsible for 29 per cent of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...et al., 2010; IEA, 2010b; BP, 2010) So what is the chain of events that cause climate change on a global level?...Week 1: Introducing renewable energy: 5.1 What are the causes of climate change? - The surface temperature of the Earth establishes itself at an equilibrium level where the incoming radiative power energy from the Sun balances the outgoing reflected amd...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...et al. (2013) focus on the development of literacy after compulsory education was introduced in many western countries in the late 1800s. These two articles both present views of the historical development of reading and the teaching of reading. Gillen and Hall (2003) trace their narrative forward in a sequential way from the end of the 19th century. Green et al. (2013),...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...double bonds, as opposed to single bonds such as those formed in the methane and water molecules. Look back at Figure 10 - part of a protein molecule. The vertical 'double lines' between the carbon atoms and the oxygen atoms are carbon-to-oxygen double bonds. It is entirely possible to have other molecules where carbon atoms are joined to carbon atoms by double bonds - as...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...et al., 1999) has emerged as a popular iterative and incremental development process for building enterprise systems based on an object-oriented approach. It promotes a set of best practices, namely that development should be organised in short time-boxed iterations, and that it should be adaptive to accommodate inevitable change. Time boxing means that a (usually) short...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs