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Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...data from different countries highlighting the growing problem of antibiotic resistance worldwide. You will be introduced to factors, covered in more detail later in the course, that have contributed to this problem. Finally, you will listen to scientists discussing the potential threat to modern medicine of antibiotic resistance and will begin to form your own opinion...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...analysis process is to understand the science and theory behind a particular strategy and its impact. The next stage of critical analysis would be to analyse the supporting research. In the next section we will look at some examples of recovery strategies used by elite athletes and will begin to critically examine how effective these strategies are...Recovery strategies...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...analysis of the molecular make up, the course moves on to look at the importance of protein and how they are digested and absorbed...This free course, Gene testing, looks at three different uses of genetic testing: pre-natal diagnosis, childhood testing and adult testing. Such tests provide genetic information in the form of a predictive diagnosis, and as such are...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...analysis suggesting the community patrols have overwhelming support in the town. Opinion polls in Hamilton, including one run by a local newspaper, revealed more than 90 per cent backing for the curfew, although more than half of all children thought police did not understand youngsters and stopped them for no reason. Yesterday, the Scottish Office urged the other seven...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...data between 2016 and 2018, observing lower levels of physical activity of Adults (16+) in Asian adults of Muslim faith (40%) compared to those from ethnic backgrounds but no statistical analysis regarding Muslim women. In fact, a general search on the Internet reveals little in the way of any studies at all. How then I question, can Sport England ever hope to achieve...
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Article 20 mins
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...data-limited estimations which were not always accurate e.g. on poverty assessment indices; presence of unassessed aspects of health e.g. non-communicable diseases and mental health; lack of integration/synergy of goals with other development activities e.g. on education, health and gender. In all, for the post 2015 agenda emphasis is made on the need for goal setting on...
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Article 5 mins
Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Life with the lions: Why relocating South African lions to Rwanda might create its own problems

...data over many generations, illustrating the risk of certain interferences. Second, genetic diversity on the species level can be considered as its evolutionary potential. It contains the blue print on which selective pressures can act. It therefore functions as the insurance for long term survival of a species, which is exceptionally important in a changing environment....
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Article 5 mins
How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...data with Einstein’s predictions allowed us to test whether general relativity correctly describes such a collision – they passed with flying colours. The black-hole collision The merger occurred more than one billion light years from Earth, converting three times the mass of the sun into gravitational wave energy. In a fraction of a second, the power radiated through...
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Video 10 mins