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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...care units. In the UK, 26,771 people passed away from 687,369 patients that have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (numbers correct as of 30 April 2020), which suggest a mortality rate of 15%. Various studies are trying to understand why some patients have more severe symptoms than others. Unfortunately, there is currently no specific treatment for COVID-19; although many...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...caring commitments) or feel boring or ‘not right’ anymore. It may also feel like you have achieved all your work goals but are still unfulfilled. You are stuck: the normal way of doing your job isn’t working anymore, or you cannot get that next promotion. These situations then often lead to feelings of worry, stress and anxiety, and even hopelessness and...
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Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...adult and a child and sets limits on what someone is allowed to do. You will use the internet to listen to people talking about the issues. You will also get to see what children think about the way the criminal law attaches labels to them. Watch the following video, in which course author Rod Earle from The Open University introduces this session. ROD EARLE Stories about...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...adult and child. [Described image] Figure 2 Eric Berne Parent state, as the name suggests, is associated with the typical behaviour of a parent towards their children. This could be authoritarian, prescribing or admonishing as in ‘Don't do that’, ‘Do it this way’ or ‘That's wrong’ – which might be described as a critical parent state. Alternatively, it could...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...Care About Mindfulness, and a video on student mental health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 264,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We...
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Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?
Education & Development

Should boys be taught about periods and the menstrual cycle at school?

...fact remains that many adult men – and women – are still highly uncomfortable talking about periods. And given that Plan International UK found that almost half of girls aged 14 to 21 are embarrassed by menstruation, it’s time this changed – period. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. More on periods Transcripts...
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Why going dairy-free can hit your iodine levels
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why going dairy-free can hit your iodine levels

...adults every day. By contrast, our study found that a glass of milk substitute would provide only around two micrograms. The drinks with added iodine (as stated on the ingredients label) provided a reasonable amount of iodine (between 45μg and 60μg per glass). But, as these drinks were not from a market leader, most consumers will probably not get enough iodine in their...
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There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
Health, Sports & Psychology

There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!

...adults) do have bad bedtime habits, researchers have long since proven that this global problem has a biological cause. In 2004, researchers at the University of Munich proved that teenagers actually have a different sense of time. Their study showed that the 24-hour cycle which determines when you wake and sleep gets later during your teens, reaching its latest point by...
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