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Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?

...analysis, conditioning in the gym and making wise travel arrangements. While in the arena, optimising the warm-up, saving energy for competition and coping with pressure all need to be incrementally developed through experience. After six years of full-time training, aged 27, following disappointment at both the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, Edwards made the World...
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Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?
History & The Arts

Does fiction make people more empathic and is that a good thing?

...analysis’. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, pp. 180–98. Nettle, D. (2005) ‘What happens in Hamlet? Exploring the psychological foundations of drama’. In J. Gottschall and D. Sloan Wilson (eds), The Literary Animal (pp. 56–75). Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press. Schonfeld, Z. (2013) Now We Have Proof Reading Literary Fiction...
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The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...review and meta-analysis. Physician and Sportsmedicine, 42(2), 48–57. UCAS (2019). UCAS Courses Search. Retrieved March 13, 2019, from https://digital.ucas.com/search/results?SearchText=sports therapy&filters=Destination_Undergraduate Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course How much do you know about science in sport? Study with the OU...
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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...analysis’, The Lancet, 386, pp. 1659–1671. King, J. (ed.) (2022), Art therapy, trauma, and neuroscience: theoretical and practical perspectives. Routledge. Levine, E. and Levine, S.K. (2011) Art in action: expressive arts therapy and social change. Jessica Kingsley. Malchiodi, C.A. (2020) Trauma and expressive arts therapy: brain, body, and imagination in the healing...
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Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...analysis and operational research for solving these models by computer. Explaining how and when modelling and numerical techniques can be applied, the course covers solutions of non-linear equations; systems of linear and non-linear equations and mathematical modelling; linear and integer programming; and non-linear optimization for unconstrained and constrained...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...analysis and see how some of the ideas are applied to cryptography and fractals. Group theory consists of material from M303 Book B, Chapters 6 and 7 and has three sections in total. You should set aside about five hours to study each of the sections. The whole extract should take about 16 hours to study. The extract is a small part (around 4%) of a large course that is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Dynamics
Science, Maths & Technology

Dynamics

...analysis. If you are interested in statistics, you might like to try the free OpenLearn courses Modelling and estimation, Medical statistics and Bayesian statistics...Dynamics: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...data that's available. This data's from all over the world - countries spend billions of dollars investing in this kind of research. Now, I've circled the places where I've been. Well, by design, if I wanted to have a heart attack I'd been in the right places. Right? So, how many people are in the white? How many people in the room have spent the majority of their life in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs