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The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...social. In the 1950s, agreement was reached to compensate the Jewish victims of the Nazis. However, it was not until the 1980s and 1990s, after a determined campaign that involved hunger strikes by three concentration-camp survivors, that the Roma were recognised as victims of racial persecution and mass murder. By then, clearing the Roma of responsibility for their...
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Article 10 mins
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...Social Sciences? Find out about Open University courses But that's very much the sort of sniffy attitude which is strenuously attacked in a new book called Radical Gardening – Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden. Its author is George McKay who's Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford. He now joins me in the studio together with Tim Jordan,...
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Article 15 mins
Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...social housing was to have a child. Due to this, a large number of young pregnant teenagers or mothers frequented Alexandra Park Surgery, (now known as Whitswood Practice). A substantial number of these young women grew up in the care system and subsequently were clueless about taking care of a baby. These young women, on attending clinical appointments, would remain at...
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An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...social scientists and ‘thanatologists’ (people who specialise in the academic study of death and dying). However, what is so fascinating about this topic – once you start to dig a little deeper – is that there continues to be so much variation in how death is understood by different people and different cultures. [Described image] Figure 1 The Tana Torajen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...social change is not linear. It is full of complex interactions and feedback processes; in many respects, it is cyclical. The adaptive management cycle shows the need at points within the process for generating and giving feedback through its focus on identifying uncertainty and monitoring better than the first project cycle. These ‘pauses’ offer moments to reconsider...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...interacts with - often referred to as Customer relationship management (CRM) or Marketing information systems (MIS), so we have the ability increasingly to source valuable information from these systems. If you don’t have direct access to query such systems in your organisation, you may well be able to make a request though your Information manager. If we take this a...
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Article 10 mins
Laser beam welding
Science, Maths & Technology

Laser beam welding

...interaction of laser beam, shielding gas and metal vapour to form a plasma which acts as a secondary heat source, giving reduced weld penetration and greater heat distortion. This can be overcome using special attachment for “plasma control”. Using the “laser-GTA” technique, welding speeds of up to 30 m min-1 have been reported for 3 mm Al sheet (600 W CO2 laser,...
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What is polonium - and why is it so dangerous?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is polonium - and why is it so dangerous?

...interaction of the alpha particles with the surrounding air. Polonium’s effects The toxicity of radioactive materials is usually measured in terms of the radiation emitted and/or absorbed. However, to compare with more conventional toxins, the median lethal dose (LD50) for 210Po that is usually quoted is about 1μg, or one millionth of a gram. That is one ten thousandth...
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