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Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...changed during a person’s lifetime. These variants can span small regions of DNA and can be from just one DNA base to much larger regions, hundreds of bases. Certain sequences are more common in certain populations, which sometimes gives us information about increased risks of particular diseases within that population. For example in Caucasian (White) populations there...
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Should animals have legal standing?
Society, Politics & Law

Should animals have legal standing?

...change? ...What is a ‘person’ in law? The concept of a legal ‘person’ goes back to ancient Roman law. Only entities recognised by the law as a ‘person’ are considered legal actors. In other words, only a ‘person’ can sue or be sued, enter into contracts or own property. All living human beings are recognised by the law as persons, although personhood only...
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Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity

...change depending on the relative motion of the source and the observer. As a result of these principles, Einstein deduced that there is no fixed frame of reference in the universe. Everything is moving relative to everything else, hence Einstein’s theory of relativity. It is known as special relativity because it applies only to special cases: frames of reference in...
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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...changed the nature of healthcare for older people in part responding to their dire medical neglect within the NHS hospital system and in part to government and management pressure to improve bed occupancy figures. Geriatric medicine began to offer a career trajectory and eventually became what it is today, the second largest specialty with about 1,514 specialists. The...
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Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...change. [Female college student studying in the library] The numbers tell a clear story. Across both academic years we studied (2019/20 and 2020/21), ethnic minority students had consistently lower pass and completion rates than their white peers. For example, in the module TM111, the pass rate for ethnic minority students was over 9 percentage points lower than for...
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Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...change. Our project complements this. We talked to carers and they told us about how difficult it is to find information about local services and about the health conditions of the people they are caring for. This is especially true when people become a carer initially as often this is in response to a sudden crisis in the life of a relative or friend and people report...
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Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up
History & The Arts

Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up

...are conducted on-line. No surprise then, that Jediism is moving with the times and using new technology. In short, Jediism is a symptom of our changing relationships with big institutions and their narratives, with technology and with the neighbourhoods and localities in which we live. Welcome to the world of new religions. Transcript Learn more about Religious Studies...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...G.E. (eds) Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Berkeley: University of California Press. Tremlett, P.-F. (2020) Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions, Bloomsbury: London. Williams, F. E. (1977) ‘The Vailala Madness’ and Other Essays. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. More related free resources...
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