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An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...sustainable and high-quality simulation-based education framework. The all Wales simulation-based education and training strategy supports simulation in several ways: Collaborative learning: the strategy promotes a collaborative and coordinated approach to simulation-based education and training (SBET), engaging various stakeholders, including healthcare professionals,...
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...sustain that fun and excitement about learning something new. Your focus here is on children, roughly from 5 to 12 years old, since it is at this age that many lifelong habits and motivations are formed. Your exploration of guiding teenagers and the coaching of adults will follow on from this. You will start by hearing from Michael Johnson and others talking about...
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...sustained. In this context, the 'habitable zone' embraces settings devoid of both sunlight and an atmosphere. These are areas where life could survive on the energy from chemical reactions made possible by the discharge of hot chemically enriched fluids through vents on the floor of an ocean capped by a thick layer of ice. Note that 'ice' does not necessarily mean just...
Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...sustainable alternatives. If a waste plastic is to be recycled, then the ease with which this can be performed depends on how many other types of plastic and other materials are present in the complete waste sample. The disposal of waste plastics, as it links to plastic pollution, is currently an important scientific challenge for society, particularly in terms of the...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...sustainability of the project. ANGELA SLATER So it’s still very much on a project by project basis. And so it’s just down to every year, unfortunately, doing a slog of grant applications. How I set it up in the first place is I had a group of people who were willing to do it in kind in a sense. And I said I’ll try to get as much funding as I can. And I remember that...
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...sustain the operating conditions imposed upon them. The simulation models can be changed, modified and adapted to suit the various known or anticipated operating conditions, and solutions can be optimised. Thus, the designers can be confident that the real products should perform efficiently and safely, and can be manufactured profitably. A few more detailed reasons are...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...sustainably to rising levels of obesity. It acknowledged changes in work patterns (e.g. the sedentary nature of many jobs), transport (such as our reliance on cars) and issues around the food that we are consuming. In 2012 the Department of Health published an update on its approach to tackling obesity (Department of Health, 2012), which built on the earlier work of the...
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...sustain ordinary relationships. The idea of defining and measuring participation as a ‘multidimensional concept’, combining both social participation and consumption, follows the work of Peter Townsend (1979) and other social scientists whom you saw in the film, ‘Social science, poverty and participation’. They argued that being able to afford a certain level of...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs