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Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...writing this technology is under development in Norway as a possible solution to the similar problem of fjord crossings needed for the coastal highway project. [Described image] Figure 21 An artist’s impression of a proposed floating tunnel for Norway A floating tunnel may be held up by its own buoyancy and anchored to the sea bed, or it may have negative buoyancy (i.e....
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...write training plans I’m looking what can I get rid of. You know, how few of things can we do. (Pfaff, 2012) It is debatable whether athletes who choose to put in more sessions are doing so due to individual ambition, which is reinforced by sport training culture. However, a shift in ethos to ‘less is more’ and ‘recovery is training’ would clearly help many...
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...writing). AIDS-related deaths fell from 2 million in 2008 to 1.8 million in 2010 due to the expansion of access to effective antiretroviral therapy. One outcome of this success is that HIV prevalence (the number of people living with HIV infection) is steadily increasing – to 34 million in 2010. Just over 2 million of those people were children under 15 years infected...
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...write your hypothesis in your notes. (Hint: remember that a hypothesis is a statement (not a question) proposing an explanation for an observation as a starting point for further investigation.) Then compare your hypothesis with ours below. Answer Your wording may be a little different to ours but it should capture the same point: ‘Exposure to cowpox infection will...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...writing is provided by Körtner and Geiser (2000). Torpor is best defined as entry of the whole animal into a state of hypothermia which is accompanied by behavioural inactivity, regulated by a combination of external and internal signals. Hibernation is defined as a sustained and profound state of torpor, entry to and exit from which is governed by internal signals...
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...writing (2023) LED replacements for 60 watt and 100 watt GLS lamps are widely available and heavily promoted...Energy in buildings: 4.2.3 Lighting and illuminance - Efficient lighting isn’t just about using high-efficacy lamps. It is also about properly illuminating the things that we want to see, such as a book. LED lamps have an advantage over traditional lamps in...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...writing (ICD-11, which became available on 18 June 2018). You can read about DSM and anxiety in a short paper by David Kupfer from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, published in 2015 (a link to the article is provided in the References section). There continues to be considerable controversy and debate around the use of one...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...writing (2016), large scale oil extraction in polar regions hasn’t really begun – but if high oil prices return and summer sea ice continues to dwindle, the Arctic could be the next major oil extraction frontier. Life without oil? Oil is a fossil resource; it takes much longer to form (millions of years) than it takes for us to extract it. So are we going to run out?...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs