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Sleep: A doctor's advice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sleep: A doctor's advice

...health benefits are huge. I have known patients who have a cigarette before bed "to get them off to sleep". Yet high levels of nicotine stimulate particular receptors in your brain and can affect the quality of your sleep, similarly to caffeine. So, while you're trying to quit, having your last cigarette of the day as early as possible will help you improve the quality of...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...health, morality, and class conflict. But was an awareness of the gradual advance of manufactures in the previous centuries being lost in the process? [Friedrich Engels] Friedrich Engels The synthesis of past accounts Friedrich Engels, very much a critic of current circumstances, summed up England’s transformation in 1845, writing that “The history of the English...
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Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stigma erthyliad a'r gweithle

...Health, 8(9): e1152–e1161. Bloomer, F., Pierson, C., MacNamara, N., Mackle, D a Trew, J. D. (2017) Abortion as a Workplace Issue: A Trade Union Survey North & South of Ireland. Ar gael yn:https://www.unison-ni.org.uk/sites/default/files/TU%20Abortion%20Report%20Oct9_Final_Final_Edit.pdf (Accessed: 3 June 2024). Bloomer, F. K., Mackle, D., MacNamara, N., Pierson, C. a...
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Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...health records – and hold it in vast databases, where it can then be put to many uses. Many commentators argue that, while human societies have always created data, digital technologies are now gathering it as a speed and volume that is unprecedented historically. Some scholars and campaigners, however, are worried that, while we're very familiar with digital screens...
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A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...health and unemployment. It is thus no surprise that the gentrification of Harlem over the last couple of decades has been highly contentious. Gentrification is never a neutral process. Much of the academic literature on the subject has highlighted the ways in which processes of gentrification have forced low income households out of gentrifying neighborhoods as the...
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...health, as it could mean the heart does not fill up with enough blood before contracting. The normal heart rhythm is controlled by an electrical signal, triggered by a small set of cells called the sinoatrial node; which set in motion the signal that passes through the heart via the atrioventricular node. This signal is responsible for triggering events in the cell, such...
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...health, social work and education. Ferguson (2022) highlights how we can reconceptualise professional learning for social work as a deeply personal embodied journey within daily practice. [Infographic showing seven circles to represent: journey of the self, navigating landscape and place, navigating tasks, learning through the body, learning by chance, practices and...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...Health, Liberty or Possessions’. For Locke then, people thrive when they come together as citizens through a social contract, consenting to be governed in return for the guaranteed protection of their rights. Which all sounds rather promising. You can hear the voice of Locke when you listen to the words of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776): ‘We hold...
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