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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...C. (1993) Ireland Before and After the Famine: Explorations in economic history, 1800-1925, Manchester: Manchester University Press. Sherling, R. (2013) ‘Irish Protestants and Irish-Protestant Americans, 1870-1940’, in R. Barkan (ed.), Immigrants in American History: Arrival, adaptation, and integration Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. Speck, W.A., (2009) ‘American...
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The Industrial Revolution and Time
History & The Arts

The Industrial Revolution and Time

...C Davies explains how developments in timekeeping and the way people viewed time played an important part in making the industrial revolution possible...[Hoover dam clock] Find out more about The Open University's History qualifications Before the middle of the eighteenth century - the beginning of the Industrial Revolution - perceptions of time were generally hazy,...
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Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon

...C uwchlaw lefelau cynddiwydiannol. Er mwyn cyflawni hynny, byddai'n rhaid i lefelau allyriadau byd-eang ostwng 45% erbyn 2030 o gymharu â lefelau 2010 a chyrraedd sero net erbyn 2050. Mae sero net yn cyfeirio at sefyllfa lle y bydd y nwyon tŷ gwydr a gaiff eu rhyddhau i'r atmosffer yn cael eu gwrthbwyso drwy dynnu nwyon cyfatebol allan o'r atmosffer. Nid yw ymrwymiad...
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Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...C. (2000) ‘The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen: examining an endarkened feminist epistemology in educational research and leadership’, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 13(6), pp. 661–81. Hill Collins, P. (2000) Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge. Hill...
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5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...C, Draper J, Pappas Y, McKeown E, Dadova K and Gray S (2018) Barriers and facilitators to adherence to group exercise in institutionalised older people living with dementia: a systematic review (in press) DOI : 10.1186/s11556-018-0200-3 https://eurapa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s11556-018-0200-3 Williams CL & Tappen RM. Exercise training for depressed older adults...
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English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...c, 5 = a...Week 1: Reading skills for university study: 1.3 What academic sources look like - Academic and specialist sources, such as the ones you have just considered, may have different purposes and contain different kinds of information but they all aim to present content in a clear way. This is why they all follow a clear and predictable structure. The structure of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...c) a pet cat, (d) a pet bird, or (e) a pet fish? In the study that this activity was adapted from, Jeffrey Rasmussen and colleagues found that people tended to rate all of these assumptions as being highly reasonable of the young child (using a 7-point rating scale, where 1 indicated ‘unreasonable’ and 7 indicated ‘reasonable’), although the item about remembering...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...appliances and in 1999 minimum energy standards (corresponding mostly to energy class C). Energy efficiency improved markedly after 1998 to meet these standards leading to the reductions in electricity use by cold appliances seen in Figure 6. [Figure 7] Figure 7 Electricity consumption in cold appliances, business-as-usual scenario, UK, 1970–2020. So far, so promising. There is considerable scope, however, for further ......
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs