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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...change in the normal situation, caused for example by a wound, which gives them a chance to grow and become a menace rather than remain a harmless natural inhabitant. Commensals also maintain a natural microbial balance in the body and help prevent pathogens from becoming abundant. One of the most important groups of commensal bacteria is the genus Streptococcus, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...climate for endurance running – not too hot, not too cold, not too humid. They found a route with the best surface for running at speed. Nike designed shoes that improve running efficiency by 4%. On the day there were 42 pacers (all phenomenal runners in their own right) who took turns to run, at the exact pace required to break 2 hours, in a specific formation that...
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IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...Changes in Newsgathering, which brought together technical experts working in the business of newsgathering in order to review developments. (A colloquium is a meeting at which specialists give talks on a topic or on related topics and then lead a discussion about them.) The introductory talk at the colloquium was presented by E.V. Taylor, who was at that time Head of...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...changes – alteration of genes in terms of their activity, rather than their DNA sequence – can be inherited, and it’s thought these may explain how intergenerational transmission of trauma occurs. In August 2015, Yehuda and colleagues published a study of Holocaust survivors that showed, for the first time in humans, that parental trauma experienced before...
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Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...Changing Welsh culture In recent years the distinctiveness of Wales, in terms of its institutions and culture, has grown considerably. In 1982 Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C), the Welsh fourth television channel, came into existence, the Millennium Stadium opened in 1999 and the Wales Millennium Centre (where the Welsh National Opera is based) in 2004, and the Encyclopaedia of...
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Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...changed a lot. I worked part-time for a period. Things became more difficult for me in school. I had to cut my hours and eventually I finished working. Everything changes completely when you're on dialysis because you're tied to the hospital on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It's quite a strain to be honest. It's been an enormous change for me to go from a very busy...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...changes. The reason we’re doing this early on in the design process is it is at a stage when we can change the design. Things like what we call the belt line of the vehicles so where the windows start, crudely put, and the proportion of glass to metal. We can change things like door opening angles. We can make changes to apertures. We can look at form of the bonnet so I...
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The impact of Brexit on British wages
Money & Business

The impact of Brexit on British wages

...changed dramatically. The election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 started a trend that continues to the present of supporting privatisation, less establishment worker’s rights and a decrease in Union with the aim of enhancing competitiveness. New Labour also adopted this “pro-business” perspective under the leadership of Tony Blair, despite the institution of some new...
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