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Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...De Brant’s (2019) research with athletes who had retired or were close to retirement explored what athletes themselves felt they had to offer in terms of competencies they had developed during their career. The strongest they identified were goal orientation, dedication to success and collaboration. For some athletes, a natural career path is one that sees them remain...
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The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back
OpenLearn Ireland

The future of rural Ireland - nuances, scale and fighting back

...types of rural area are homogenous. Past failures to adequately understand or fully appreciate the implications of this point accounts, to a large degree, for the increasing disparities between different types of rural areas.” CEDRA Energising Ireland’s Rural Economy, Report of the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas, p. 36 Some rural places with...
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Measure the Astronomical Unit and watch the Transit Of Venus
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Astronomical Unit and watch the Transit Of Venus

...type in the hours, there’s a box to type in the minutes and a box for the seconds. Lucie That’s great, and so our website will do all the fiendish maths for you. Back to Adam. Adam Terrific, Ok Andy, how’s it getting on can we see the picture from Egypt please? Andy It’s nearly there isn’t it? Adam There, it’s very close but you can still see a little bright...
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‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
Society, Politics & Law

‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry

...type of bar. Female bar staff were therefore outnumbered by their male customers in these arenas. The uniforms female bar staff were provided with were usually highly sexualised. In one bar, I wore a wrap-around skirt to my mid-calves, which would open to reveal my legs. This was matched with an off-the-shoulder top, which exposed my breasts when I bent over. In that bar,...
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Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

...types of support or treatment, many of these mental health problems will go undiagnosed. Longitudinal studies (i.e. research conducted with the same people over many years) support the notion that experiencing a diagnosable mental health condition or disorder at some stage during a person’s life is the norm, not the exception. A study recently published by Schaefer and...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...types and/or stages are more associated with severe COVID-19. Hopefully, this information will also help us to understand how to identify high-risk individuals and to prevent severe COVID-19 in cancer patients. Based on the current evidence, the UK government has identified patients with certain health conditions as “extremely vulnerable”. For this group, the...
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Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...types of products being manufactured in Viking settlements, but also the scale on which they were produced. Technological developments emerged as people came together in growing coastal trading centres and market towns. The world was rapidly becoming more joined-up during this period than at any time since the heyday of the Roman Empire. Trade fostered international links...
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Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...phrases or even as well listening, especially listening, and trying to understand different topics when people are talking about different situations. Kifibin thought he had only limited possibilities to develop his language skills at work; he mostly learned to understand, not so much to produce Finnish. A year after this fieldwork, in 2014, Kifibin took aNational...
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