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After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
Health, Sports & Psychology

After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack

...determines whether or not something is traumatic is the person’s own subjective sense of the event. If they experienced it as traumatic, then it was traumatic. Some people seem to manage extremely well immediately after a traumatic event but find that they are affected by it long after the event, or that distressing memories of the event come back. There is no way to...
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Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit

...determine the status of Brits abroad and the rights that come with that status. They might offer special status for a period of time, allowing UK citizens to stay where they are. They might, however, tie that to certain requirements such as language skills or the role the people in question play in their host society. Brits can always aim to naturalise into their host...
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After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?
Society, Politics & Law

After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?

...determined whether they lived or died. But as Sierra Leone buries the nearly 500 people known to have been killed by the mudslide, international help may well still be needed. Outbreaks of disease, such as cholera, often follow such tragedies – and then there are the country’s ongoing, long-term problems. To be truly effective, international assistance will now have...
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Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?
Society, Politics & Law

Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?

...determinative of the outcome, though in several it was highly significant. [The Conversation]Memory detection technologies are improving, but even if they are “accurate” (however we choose to define that term) it does not automatically mean they will or should be allowed in court. Society, legislators and the courts are going to have to decide whether our memories...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Monsoon and its role on regulating global climate in the past

...determines rainfall. Also, the monsoon is a result of complex system of land-ocean-atmosphere that interacts with other tropical and subtropical climate processes. Further, since the industrial revolution Earth’s climate has changed rapidly as a result of increase in global atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean warming and decline in Arctic ice cover. Our...
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Phosphating (non-electrolytic coatings)
Science, Maths & Technology

Phosphating (non-electrolytic coatings)

...determined by the size and shape of the article to be plated. Small items, such as nuts, bolts, screws and small stampings, are coating in tumbling barrels immersed in the phosphating bath. The drums are rotated at 4 rev min-1. Low-volume medium-sized parts are manually immersed in the tank using baskets. Large fabricated articles such as refrigerator bodies are...
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Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...determined that his architecture would reintroduce nature into people's lives. Victorian cities were chaotic and dark prisons for many of their inhabitants. Le Corbusier was convinced that a rationally planned city, using the standardised housing types he had developed, could offer a healthy, humane alternative. Urbanisme The first of his grand urban plans was the Ville...
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COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step
Nature & Environment

COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step

...Determined Contributions) that nations must produce and keep ratcheting down on a 5-year cycle under the Paris Agreement. Longer-term aspirational pledges – announcements about the year when a nation plans to reach Net Zero and what precisely this means. Global annual emissions – measured by the UNFCCC’s (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)...
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