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Doctor Who and human history
History & The Arts

Doctor Who and human history

...T. Davies deliberately wanted to set all the stories on Earth, so it was inevitable that human history would be visited regularly. However, for all the visits to Victorian England (now something of a favourite location, in stories such as ‘The Next Doctor’, 2008, and ‘The Crimson Horror’, 2013), the stories remain firmly in the pseudo-historical format. Doctor Who...
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Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...our organism works? Are some of them really junk material for scientific research? We don`t know it completely yet but a new era of scientific challenges has started. More on genes and cancer
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Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...for Learning, 24(2) pp. 86–94. Available from http://oro.open.ac.uk/17877/ Cremin, T. and Chappell, K. (2019) ‘Creative pedagogies: a systematic review’, Research Papers in Education (Early Access). http://oro.open.ac.uk/66250/
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Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity
Nature & Environment

Amazonian challenges: The loss of indigenous culture and identity

...T]he process of colonization has left so-called indigenous peoples defeated, relegated to minor spaces, reservations, bread-crumbs of land conceded by the dominant society. Indians were separated from their sacred land, the land of their ancestors, and from their burial grounds with which they shared a deeply spiritual bond. Deprived of traditional environments, they were...
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What's in your toolbox?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's in your toolbox?

...T = Taking action. Alternatively, this can be summarised as "be present, open up, and do what matters." (Harris, 2019). The first step, 'acceptance', is often the hardest; not accepting a situation makes it difficult to move forward, difficult to look at the different opportunities and options. If one does not accept a situation, one is less likely to accept any reasons...
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Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and anxiety in the digital age: the dark side 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....
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What do genes do?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do genes do?

...T). In contrast, the RNA bases are adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and uracil (U). Why one of the four bases in RNA is different from the equivalent base in DNA is not fully understood. There is a third important structural difference between DNA and RNA. Recall that the basic structure of DNA is a double helix of two spiralled strands, i.e. it is double-stranded....
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...T., PUK, O., SUN, M., FAVOR, J., RACZ, I., BEKEREDJIAN, R., BUSCH, D. H., GRAW, J., KLINGENSPOR, M., KLOPSTOCK, T., WOLF, E., WURST, W., ZIMMER, A., LOPEZ, E., HARATI, H., HILL, E., KRAUSE, D. S., GUIDE, J., DRAGILEVA, E., GALE, E., WHEELER, V. C., BOUSTANY, R. M., BROWN, D. E., BRETON, S., RUETHER, K., GAILUS-DURNER, V., FUCHS, H., DE ANGELIS, M. H. & COTMAN, S. L. 2012....
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