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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...systemic change. As a leader, this might mean asking difficult questions about your own practice. Are there ways in which well-intentioned policies or interventions might be limiting rather than enabling? Are there voices that are not being heard because they do not fit the dominant narrative? How leaders relate to others and how they use their interpersonal competencies...
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How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?
History & The Arts

How can the arts improve health and wellbeing?

...system and digestion (Fancourt, 2017, p. 34). The arts have also been used to reduce pain, both short-term and chronic. Numerous studies, for example, have experimented with using music to improve recovery after surgical procedures, which reduced levels of pain and anxiety, requiring lower levels of medication (Hole et al., 2015). The arts are perhaps most closely...
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Sea level rise in Bangladesh
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Bangladesh

...system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663885/Future_of_the_sea_-_sea_level_rise.pdf Accessed 25th January 2020 Humphreys, D. (2019) ‘Climate Change: an introduction to a heated debate’, Chapter 1, in Jehlicka, P. and D. Humphreys, D. (Eds) Environmental Policy in an International Context, Milton Keynes, The Open University IDMC, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre...
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The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...System. For this reason, the discovery of water is the primary goal of many space missions. Despite being 55 million kilometres from Earth, Mars (Figure 1b) can often be spotted with the naked eye in the night sky as a reddish-orange object (Figure 2). It has been observed throughout human history, with the earliest record dating back to ancient Egypt, and for this reason...
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Dyddiadur Barwnes am Oes Newydd
Society, Politics & Law

Dyddiadur Barwnes am Oes Newydd

...system ble byddai’r safle cyntaf yn cael ei ddal gan fenyw, yr ail safle yn agored, ac yna bob yn ail yn yr un modd. Byddai'r system bleidleisio o ethol un enillydd drwy bleidleisio ffafriol yn cael ei defnyddio i bennu safle ar y rhestr. Byddai'r ymgeisydd ar frig y rhestr yn cael ei enwebu gan arweinydd y blaid i Dŷ'r Arglwyddi. Byddai'r enwau eraill yn cael eu...
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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...system are the most common cancers. Every year, in the USA alone, approximately 1 in 285 children – nearly 16,000 in total – will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday, and more than a quarter of them will have been diagnosed with a brain tumour. In most childhood brain tumours, a complete removal improves the overall survival. Olson has diagnosed babies...
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Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...system begins to develop, and I think we're human because of our wonderful nervous systems. And 14 days is enough, because what we what to do is research in the dish, we don't want to research using surrogate mothers." On the future: "I think there will be a range of options available for curing people of disease and trauma and they will include therapies that have come...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...system they used. Whilst much depends on context and the way rewards are given, competitions between classes or between readers across the school can inadvertently serve to demoralise reluctant or weaker readers. Research suggests they either remain detached from such initiatives, or feel they are letting their class down by not reading more books, more quickly (Cremin et...
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