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Nine top tips on talking about sex… for young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nine top tips on talking about sex… for young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition

...2: Find someone you trust [Junior with his carer] If you’re finding it hard to talk about sex, then the first step is to find someone that you trust. This could be a parent, sibling, family member or carer. It could be a teacher or tutor. It could even be a nurse or a doctor. It will be easier to discuss things if you find someone that you can talk to. 3: It’s OK to...
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The Goldlist method: Learning vocabulary by writing it down
Languages

The Goldlist method: Learning vocabulary by writing it down

...2. Daily headlist Create a new headlist every day for the next 13 days only in section A of each new double-page spread. Don’t look at any of the older lists during these two weeks. 3. Test yourself Day 15: come back to the first headlist. Test yourself on how well you remember the phrases by covering up the column in your target language. You’ll be surprised to see...
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Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods
History & The Arts

Four weird ideas people used to have about women’s periods

...2. Blood formed babies Bleeding also proved that women had the potential to conceive, as the blood was believed to form the baby and then to nourish it in the womb. As Galen, the ancient Greek physician and physiologist, wrote in his treatise Mixtures: “Blood is potentially flesh, as it requires only the smallest change in order for flesh to be produced.” No blood, no...
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Understanding interstrand crosslink repair in Drosophila
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding interstrand crosslink repair in Drosophila

...2: A WS patient Further assessment of the double mutant will help to determine if the two exonuclease operate on the same or different pathway of DNA repair in general and ICL repair in particular. Their similarities will be explored specifically the presence of expression in certain moments of the cell cycle. Cell cycle specificity can be investigated by analysing...
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Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...can effectively include children with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms? A systematic literature review’, Support for Learning, 24(2) pp. 86–94. Available from http://oro.open.ac.uk/17877/ Cremin, T. and Chappell, K. (2019) ‘Creative pedagogies: a systematic review’, Research Papers in Education (Early Access). http://oro.open.ac.uk/66250/...
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Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...2% encodes for proteins. The transcripts lacking the capability to encode for proteins are called non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Based on the aforementioned paradigm, it has been supposed for many years that RNAs were “junk genome”. Emerging evidence indicates that ncRNAs play important biological functions, particularly in some diseases. What was considered “junk”...
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12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning
Education & Development

12 famous Confucius quotes on education and learning

...2: [photo of globes with a Confucius quote : "At home, a young man should be a good son, when outside he should treat others like his brothers, his behaviour should be one of trustworthy and proper, and should love the multitude at large and keep himself close to people of benevolence and morality. If after all these activities, he has any energy to spare, he should read...
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Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...2 Consider the requirements of the application for each of the following and then match up with an appropriate material/product from the list below. Rope for serious mountain climbers. See-through door panel for an electric cooker. Prefabricated roof trusses for a medium-sized house. Candidate materials and form: High tensile steel wire. Sawn, kiln-dried timber joined...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs