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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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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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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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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...changes in the brain in people with ADHD and consider how the condition is managed both with, and without, medication. Reflecting on your perceptions of ADHD Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Before you study this topic, it is helpful to reflect on any pre-existing perceptions and beliefs you may have about ADHD. These may come from personal experiences, previous study, or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...change the outcome, sometimes in ways that their supporters find highly undesirable. For instance, the presence of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader on the presidential ballot in Florida in 2000 may very well have caused Al Gore to lose Florida, and thereby the presidency, even though it’s likely that a large majority of Nader voters preferred Gore to George Bush....
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The Rise and Fall of the Slave Trade
History & The Arts

The Rise and Fall of the Slave Trade

...in the context of the Atlantic trade's long existence, its abolition was a remarkable change, and the question arises of how this came to happen. Above all, what factors converted Britain to such vehement anti-slavery? The obvious starting-point is the campaigns of Granville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce and their fellow evangelical Christians from the 1780s onwards. At the level of parliamentary politics, ......
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