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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...C. Electrically igniting known quantities of the foodstuff in oxygen and then measuring the heat output gives an indication of the energy content of foods. The heat energy that is released by burning the food in oxygen is equivalent to the energy released in the body when the complex molecules in the food are metabolized completely. One of the reasons why metabolic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...c but also I think capital C conservative nature of Cardiff rugby club then. Wales’s first international rugby player was Mark Brown from Pontypool in the 1980’s and after that you have a sequence of players like Glen Webb and others down to Colin Charvis and they never exploited in any sense their ethnic difference and they’ve been assimilated within the rugby...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...C. and Picton, I. (2022) Children and young people’s reading engagement in 2022: Continuing insight into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on reading, London, National Literacy Trust. Cremin, T. and Coles, B. (2022) Children’s Reading Choices: What are children choosing to read and how do they choose? The Open University https://ourfp.org/reads/ Cremin, T., Hempel...
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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...C. (2014) ‘Compression garments and recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage: a meta-analysis’, British Journal of Sports Medicine, vol. 48, no. 18, pp. 1340–46. Kreher, J. B. and Schwartz, J. B. (2012) ‘Overtraining syndrome: a practical guide’, Sports Health, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 128–38. Lambert, M. I. and Mujika, I. (2013) ‘Physiology of exercise...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...C. Maxwell, cited in Dempsey and Forst, 2011, p. 35) Are you a leader? Do you – as Maxwell asserts in the quote above – know the way, go the way and show the way? In recent years the concept of leaders and leadership has become increasingly popular, but what exactly is leadership? A quick search of Amazon.co.uk returns over 100,000 books relating to leadership and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...C, and also superheated steam. However, these phenomena are mainly confined to several narrow zones along the world's active plate boundaries. Many measurements have now been made of the amount of heat flowing from the Earth's interior. Outside the distinctive zones mentioned above, heat flow varies from 40-120 milliwatts per square metre (mW m−2), largely generated by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...Laing, S. and Warr, C. (2016) ‘The Great British medalists project: a Review of Current Knowledge on the Development of the World’s Best Sporting Talent’ Sports Medicine, vol. 46, no. 8. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-016-0476-2 (Accessed 8 May 2017). WIRED (2017) About WIRED UK, [Online]. Available at
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...C): symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity The first type of ADHD, the predominantly inattentive presentation, is also sometimes referred to as attention deficit disorder (ADD). However, strictly speaking, ADD is no longer a diagnostic term – it was changed to ADHD in the DSM-IV and therefore, since 1994, healthcare professionals using the DSM have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs