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Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Resilience: The magic ingredient for Olympians?

...research tells us that some athletes can develop positively and learn from adversity experienced. For example, Fletcher and Sarkar (2012), in a study of Olympic champions, reported that most of the athletes interviewed argued that had they not experienced certain stressors, and adversities, they would not have won their gold medals. Perhaps one Olympic example that...
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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...research literature. This is when patients or service users search for organisations or individual health and social care workers using the Internet. Ryan et al. (2019) discussed this concept with some members of the public and there is evidence to suggest it can have both a positive and negative effect on the perceptions of an individual or organisation. For example,...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...centre of the laboratory, Davy had set up a chemical reaction: nitrate of ammoniac bubbled in a heated retort, and the escaping gas was being collected in a hydraulic bellows before seeping through water into a reservoir tank from which the sealed box was filled. After an hour and a quarter, by which time he estimated that his system was fully saturated, Davy stepped out...
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‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982
Society, Politics & Law

‘Not our jobs to sell’: Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982

...research – as a story of redundant male workers. The women who led and participated in these occupations are not part of the Scottish – or British – narrative of factory closure and the harms caused by industrial rupture. And this is despite their public significance at the time; the occupations at Lee (February to August, 1981), Lovable (January to March, 1982) and...
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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...Research engineer, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University Flight vehicles are mostly represented in the form of flying cars – as opposed to commercial aircraft – in Back to the Future II. Looking forward to 2045, commercial aviation is likely to have seen significant changes between now and then thanks to breakthroughs in several...
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Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...researchers, government and business. However, a dataset of the right information compiled using consistent methods allows us to estimate the benefits of urban trees thereby answering a number of critical questions that would help to leverage more funding support to protect our urban forests. In June 2019 the Geospatial Commission awarded funding for members of the...
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Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Jonathan Edwards' giant world record leap – what can we learn from his long career?

...Children born in May, June, July and August, the youngest in their school year, are less likely to get selected for squads in adolescence, but are more likely to achieve senior professional status: a reversal of the relative age effect. The additional challenge experienced by these initially disadvantaged younger athletes is thought to build resilience – a key component...
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The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)
Education & Development

The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)

...research, it is the only support network for both single mums and dads across the UK for the South Asian community. We offer support to all single parents: separated, widowed, divorced, single by choice, those who have gone down the IVF route or living apart can all fit into the category of a single-parent family. No matter how you arrived in your current situation,...
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