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Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...Central to this is the role of the environment in developing resilience and the challenge-support matrix. Now, based on the reading, complete interactive Figure 1. Figure 1 A challenge–support matrix for developing resilience (Fletcher and Sarkar, 2016). Research indicates that a facilitative environment for the development of resilience can be achieved through offering...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...central aspect of effective classroom practice; through such actions practitioners can serve as role models for the young people they are working with and for the colleagues around them. The act of being alert to a student’s situation, responding to that situation and engaging others in that process, is involving many of the attributes identified by Davidson & Hughes in...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...central estimates and just look at the global average then you would find that a century worth of climate change is about equal to losing a year's worth of economic growth in terms of human welfare. It's another very big impact and certainly does not make climate change the biggest problem of humankind as some people are trying to convince us of. Those best guesses and...
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Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...central in defining the scope and direction of the study, including the methodology. Your research question(s) do not necessarily have to be expressed as question(s); they can be statements of purpose. The research question is so called because it is a problem or issue that needs to be solved or addressed. Here are some examples of research questions that focus on...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...central heating and the fact that we don't clean our clothes very often and don't sweep in the back of our cupboards. Well those early modern housewives would be appalled to think that you didn't air out your cupboards and move - get circulation, put dirty clothes away. Horrors! Martin Rowson: My father, who's a virologist, always used to say that penicillin was one of...
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Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...Central America, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific and the Caribbean. Further countries are examining these options. In Mexico, two years after the tax was implemented, consumption had dropped by nearly 10% (see Sustained consumer response: evidence from two years after implementing the sugar sweetened beverage tax in Mexico). Interestingly, however, in Mexico, young...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...central London in a private car between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. were liable to a pay a congestion charge of £5. The scheme is enforced by a network of over 700 cameras at 203 sites located at all entry and exit points to the zone, plus some additional mobile patrol and other units. The analogue data from these cameras is streamed back to a central hub and is put into an...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...Système International (SI) of units recognises factors going up or down in steps of one thousand, although below a thousand factors of ten are also recognised. Thus all the factors shown in Tables 1 and 2 are recognised by the Système International. Although in the UK we still tend to use the mile when discussing large distances, the standard measure in most other...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs