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Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...table, among the silver boxes and tooth-brushes’ (p.13) she sees her love for her husband: ‘The father of my children’ she added, slipping into the cliché conveniently provided by fiction. Inner love was in the eyes; outer love on the dressing-table. But what feeling was it that stirred in her now when above the looking glass, out of doors, she saw coming across...
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...Table 1 Comparison of the energy content of plant products Energy store Energy (megajoules per kilogram) Plant oil 37 Coal 24 Carbohydrates (including sugars) 17 Wood (dry) 16 1 megajoule is roughly the amount of energy that a one-bar electric fire would emit in 15 minutes. (Note that if wood has not been seasoned to remove excess water, less energy is obtained because...
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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...Table 1. Table 1 Weight categories for BMI Weight category BMI underweight <18.5 kg/m2 healthy weight range 18.5–25 kg/m2 overweight 25–30 kg/m2 obese 30–40 kg/m2 morbidly obese or severely obese >40 kg/m2 Footnotes Note: the symbol < means ‘less than’ and > means ‘more than’...Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?: 4 Weaknesses of the Body...
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...table below, highlight some strategies you feel would be supportive to a learner who has started turning up late for sessions. Silently acknowledging them entering the session, even if this is just with a welcoming smile. At the end of the session, asking to see this learner so the rest of the group know that lateness is not accepted. Checking in with them at the end of...
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...De-hydration can lead to a very poor performance so keeping optimally hydrated throughout the day as well as during training and competition is very important. Often carrying a large bottle of water with you is the best way to ensure you drink throughout the day. Audio 1 Mick Curry The diet is very, very important. It’s no good doing what some people do and eating junk...
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...table, but they will park them in order to move to the next step and move to the next step in a way that deliveries to them what they need. In some countries it might be simply political comfort, like the US needs political comfort that the big emitters are moving forward; some of the big emitters like China need the political comfort the US is moving forward, but others...
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...table and tied to one of the ger’s rafters. It’s covered with colour photos of big groups of adults and children. To the side there’s a small altar with a little figure of Buddha on top and several brass water bowls below, part of a Buddhist ritual to ward off negativity. I fail to find any immediate positives in this example of palliative care in action. Tumurbat...
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...table: KEY ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING STRATEGY WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? AN EXAMPLE I COULD USE IN A CLASSROOM Clarifying, understanding and sharing learning intentions Engineering effective classroom discussions, tasks and activities that elicit evidence of learning Providing feedback that move student learning forward Activate students as learning resources for one another...