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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...change things, communicate, experiment, experiences, issues, people, sharing. Refining your question. Once you have come up with a draft question, it’s a good idea to share it with others so that you can benefit from their feedback. If you are studying for your EPQ at school, you could ask fellow students or your teacher for feedback; if you’re studying at home, you...
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Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...changed over the period 1950-2010. As an example of how to read this chart, in 2010 there were just over 8 million males - the larger blue bar - in the second (5 to 10) age category and about 8 million girls: the height of the overlapped purple column. For the same year, in the 25-30 age band, there were about 7 million females - the larger pink bar, this time - and just...
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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...changes, such as an increased heart rate, which return to normal after exercise. Long term adaptations are the physiological changes that become more permanent in response a training programme such as an increase in muscle strength. These adaptations can be split into three categories – morphological changes, metabolic changes and neuromuscular changes (Lambert and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...change over time, and relate this to the flu viruses that occur in birds and other mammals explain how the epidemic pattern of influenza can be related to the evolution of new strains of virus and to the specificity of the immune response against each strain...Influenza: A case study: 1 Background to the case study - Influenza is a myxovirus belonging to the family of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars
Society, Politics & Law

The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars

...changing technology for driverless cars? Who is responsible if the vehicle crashes?...[Google Driverless Car] Oh dear! The Google car has crashed and Google has admitted that it may be their fault. This was in California, but such vehicles could be on the roads of England and Wales in the next few years. Should we be worried? We don’t think so. According to The Highway...
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Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two
Society, Politics & Law

Another spoonful? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part Two

...changing geographies of sugar...[The old Domino Sugar factory as seen from the Williamsburg Bridge. New York, NY.] The geography of sugar is a geography of globalisation. Sugarcane was probably first domesticated in the Polynesian region, around about 10,000 years ago. Its cultivation spread rapidly throughout Southeast Asia and, significantly, into India. Through...
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Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...change. Research suggests a more nuanced picture. National languages are still being used in academia and are no more threatened here than in other domains. Both teachers and students have been shown to adapt, drawing on strategies and resources that compensate for any perceived loss of learning. The ability to cope with education in a non-native language depends on a...
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Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...change the way we are thinking about mental illness?’). There is also no doubt that many service users have found relief from distressing symptoms through taking prescribed medication. Nevertheless, the mental health field has a long history of vigorous debate about the nature of mental health problems, their possible causes and suitable forms of treatment and support....
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