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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...T. (2011). Social comparison: Motives, standards, and mechanisms. D. Charee (Ed.), Theories in Social Psychology, Wiley (2011), pp. 119-139 Deloitte (2017). There’s no place like phone. Consumer usage patterns in the era of peak smartphone. http://www.deloitte.co.uk/mobileuk2016/?_ga=2.233534102.96578695.1526645345-1184893347.1526645345 (accessed 18/5/2018) Elhai, J....
Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: An emerging politics of Brexit

...Le Pen may have lost in the second round, but she did manage to secure a substantial 34% of the vote. These recent political developments illustrate the demise of well-established and taken-for-granted political frameworks such as, for example, the fundamental distinction between the ‘left’ and the ‘right’ which for a long time constituted a key ideological anchor...
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...T levels, combined with a hotchpotch of piecemeal initiatives to conceal the lack of a strategy. But there are important areas that were largely ignored. First, how is the economy going to develop robust trade links outside of the single market? Things may look rosy at the moment because of low exchange rate, but this is not sustainable. Second, the British economy’s...
Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...T. Hendry, H. Chamberlain, L and Twiner, A. (2022) [The Mercers' company logo ] [Reading for pleasure logo] Reading for pleasure: Exploring the concept, An extract from the forthcoming (2023) OU review of the research literature on reading for pleasure commissioned by the Mercers’ Company for their Special Initiative on Young People’s Reading and Writing for Pleasure....
Advanced Spanish: Protest song
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...told a lie” no puede traducirse por “Ella fue contada una mentira”, sino por: “Le contaron una mentira” o “Se le contó una mentira”. La pasiva con “se” Esta construcción es más común en el lenguaje hablado e informal. Se vende esta casa. Se discutieron varias ideas. No se puede usar “por” + el agente del verbo, como en inglés (‘several ideas were discussed by the workers’). Para expresar el agente, se debe ......
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...t equals 10 postfix times sine of 200 times t volts. The steady-state output is v sub out of t equals two postfix times sine of 200 times t minus 0.6 times pi volts. What is the gain as a voltage ratio? b.The input to the filter in part (a) remains unchanged in amplitude, but its frequency changes. The steady-state output is now found to be v sub out of t equals five...
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Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging
Languages

Messaging apps – staying connected and in control with mobile messaging

...T-shirt, looking at a smart phone.]People also accept that this is true for their friends and family, recognising that a lack of response from a contact might be due to an array of factors, including their contacts’ busy lives and other, more pressing priorities. These strategies and principles suggest that people are attempting to assert control over their...
"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school
Languages

"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school

...T - Transgender: people who experience a mismatch between their gender identity or gender expression and their assigned sex Q - Questioning: someone who is unsure about their sexual orientation I - Intersex: an individual in whom genetic, hormonal and physical features that may be thought typical of both male and female co-exist. They may be thought of as being male with...