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An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...et al. 2020) and sustainability and AI (e.g. Schwartz et al. 2020). Activity 5 Timing: 20 minutes From the cases you have considered so far in this week, clear evidence is mounting that the impact AI and related technology is having on our lives is in fact deliberate: that, as shocking as it may seem, much of this technology has in fact been designed to have these...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...et al., 2009), the attentional blink paradigm (Piech, Pastorino & Zald, 2010) and dot probe tasks (Placanica, Faunce & Soames Job, 2002), to test what people focus on have found that people’s attention is biased toward food stimuli when they are calorie deprived. Moreover, brain imaging studies have found increased activity in areas relevant for attention when calorie...
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Article 5 mins
A question of ethics: right or wrong?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A question of ethics: right or wrong?

...et al. (2010, p. 345) acknowledge that the coach has a central role in influencing moral behaviour, stating ‘the coaching session, the training field, the changing room, the game, are all environments where children (and older athletes), alongside the presence of the coach, develop and test the moral dimensions of their evolving characters’. To help practitioners to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...et al., 2015). Whilst Lydia is not qualified to deliver sport and exercise psychology support to Travis she can still deliver what Heaney (2006) terms ‘frontline’ psychological support, which could involve social support e.g. listening to Travis talk about how the injury is making him feel. Here’s what Lois’s coach Wilma had to say: Case study: The perspective of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...et al., 2017). In practice, although all pupils were introduced to subjects such as English, mathematics and science in their first two years of secondary education, the curriculum remained highly gendered for most pupils. Girls were expected to learn the domestic skills of cooking, sewing and housekeeping. Alternatively, they could choose ‘commercial’ subjects such...
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Article 10 mins
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...institutions (like schools and hospitals) and cleaners often work on various sites. Here, the focus is on the workplace where Kifibin worked in the mornings: a large event centre, where a big sporting event is organised every week. It has restaurants, cafés, stables, toilets and locker rooms. I followed Kifibin’s work there for nine days in the spring of 2013, making...
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Article 5 mins
Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...institution manages to make genuine improvements in patient safety, too often these interventions cannot be replicated elsewhere or scaled up, leading to the curse of “worked once”, as she describes it. One place that has managed to break this pattern is Northern Ireland, which has overcome the problem of poor labelling of lines such as intravenous lines and urinary...
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Article 5 mins
Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?
Society, Politics & Law

Why do voters allow corrupt politicians to stay in office?

...institutions (for example, which party holds the majority in the House), their ability to identify important political figures (for example, to name the Vice President), and to properly place parties and prominent candidates relative to each other on a range of policy issues, such as health care, taxes, abortion, and environment. I combined these data with detailed...
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