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Why do women need abortions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do women need abortions?

...based on Open University research that shows how an unintended and unwanted pregnancy can easily happen, even when using contraception...On 27 October 1967 a bill was passed making abortions by registered practitioners legal in specific circumstances. The 1967 Abortion Act (as amended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990) permits abortion up to 24 weeks when...
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Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983

...based activities. The website for Údarás na Gaeltachta is www.udaras.ie. Údarás owned the spinning and weaving factories in Kilcar, and through giving grants, training workers and managers and providing industrial premises, was involved in all four types of industrial development in the area. Transcript: The problems of industrialisation in Southwest Donegal in 1983...
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Thermal spraying (Hardfacing)
Science, Maths & Technology

Thermal spraying (Hardfacing)

...based alloys contain various amounts of tin, aluminium and zinc. Have a good combination of hardness and toughness, coupled with good low temperature corrosion resistance, thermal conductivity and machinability. Aluminium bronze is used for bearings and as a bond coat for other spray coatings. Brass is used to coat bushings and to repair castings. Iron–based alloys are...
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The sharing economy
Society, Politics & Law

The sharing economy

...based sharing economy companies such as Uber (taxi service), Bla Bla Car (ride sharing) and Ofo (bicycle sharing) have experienced a similar exponential rise in the number of users and popularity. The following video clip featuring Professor Arun Sundararajan (New York University) captures the excitement of the proponents of the sharing economy concerning its potential...
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The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Nature & Environment

The drive to sustainability in Higher Education

...based HE modules/courses in UK institutions, including staff and student travel; the purchase and use of ICT devices; printed educational materials and paper; student residential energy use; and campus buildings and site operations (Caird et al. 2015b). This enabled a carbon-based environmental assessment of the main sources of the energy and carbon dioxide emissions...
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Has Jeremy Corbyn saved Labour simply by standing for election?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn saved Labour simply by standing for election?

...based registration system to Individual Electoral Registration (IER). The boundary review and its accompanying cull of 50 of the House of Commons’s members could be expected to boost Conservative prospects. IER shouldn’t, yet from the outset Conservative ministers have seemed intent on manipulating the transition to their partisan advantage. The politically crucial...
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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...de la Marck, ‘the Boar of Ardennes’, who now stands in front of the bishop and gives the order for him to be murdered on the spot. The painting is more ‘finished’ than the sketch which preceded it (see Plate 23), yet some critics found that it retained too much of the looseness of a sketch in, for example, the faces of the foreground figures. Like Turner and...
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Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...de Nations]UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan at a press conference, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Candidates for the position must be exceptional, possessing the appropriate skills and abilities, a reputation for upholding ‘the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity’ and a commitment to the principles of the UN’s Charter – the...
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