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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...de-silencing’ mechanisms are examples of epigenetic mechanisms. The word ‘epigenetic’ means ‘above or beyond genes’ and is used to refer to the way the expression of genes can be altered as described above. The 5-HTT gene codes for the serotonin transporter protein – that is, it provides cells with the ‘instructions’ needed to make the protein. As a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...de Loutherbourg, published in 1784 as the frontispiece to Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards by Edward Jones. From: The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century remaking_31.pdf695.7 KB PDF document Image 31: Druidical Remains in Anglesey, an engraving by J.Smith in William Sotheby’s A Tour Through Parts of Wales, 1794 From: The remaking of Wales in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Tom Wilks and Helen Fraser. It was first published in October 2018....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Session 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ben Oakley. The course was critically read by Richard Bailey,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Week 1...Introduction and guidance: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Seema Shoor and Liz Smith. It was first published in October 2019....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...5: ©The Open University – for full list only Figure 6: De Agostini Picture Library\Universal Images Group Figure 7: courtesy: artwork by ©Wilhelmina Peragine Figure 8 and Figure 9 (interactive) ©The Open University Audio/Video Video 1: Mental health in children and young people, Dr Su Sukumaran courtesy The London Psychiatry Centre http://www.psychiatrycentre.co.uk/ Video 4: courtesy: 'The Cybersmile Foundation' ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...de Janiero to act on this issue, and made their first, tentative agreement five years later at Kyoto. Box 3 indicates some of the likely impacts of climate change...Working with our environment: an introduction: 4.6 Global climate change continued - Box 3: Some impacts of global climate change Record global temperatures The global mean surface temperature of our planet...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...de facto city state even if the institutional arrangements are lagging behind. And he argues that it will become increasingly necessary to recognise this. For good measure, even as he identifies London’s special status, he suggest that the tax raised in London provides a crucial underpinning for social spending elsewhere in the UK. In other words, he argues that money...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs