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Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events
Society, Politics & Law

Section 3: Red Clydeside: Key Issues and Key Events

...working class in the British Isles. This was one of the most distinctive aspects of the Glasgow-region. Glasgow was at the epi-centre of the Empire, with trading links across the globe but in addition to its status as an important port, it was the paramount centre for shipbuilding, engineering and other heavy industries. A large proportion of its workforce were engaged in...
The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...work between academia, research and members of the public who have all contributed to the content as well as to the success of the series. The Series establishes Participatory Public Engagement as the main vehicle for delivery and impact. This resource brings and translates the evidence to the lay people and enables them to make lifestyle choices that can make them live...
How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto
Languages

How Elvish has had greater impact than Esperanto

...work in the real world. His Elvish languages as they are depicted throughout his work are living, changing things, which evolve to reflect the culture of the communities who speak them. The idea of an international auxiliary language, on the other hand, is to provide a stable, unchanging code, which can be easily learnt by anyone. But human languages are never static;...
What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What’s wrong with how nurses are portrayed in the media?

...work] Unless a person has experienced nursing care first-hand (from an insider perspective), they are unlikely to know and properly understand the role and responsibilities and will draw from their (inaccurate) schema (from an outsider perspective). This means that they use false stereotypes to inform perceptions and decision-making. This cycle is perpetuated through...
Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...work, and jeopardised the adequate preparation of the pistes, courses and jumps that will host many of the skiing and snowboarding competitions. This challenge in itself reflects the increasing prevalence of warmer weather in the Alps which is attributable to climate change, and since Cortina last hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956 the average February temperature in the...
Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...work is still needed before these technologies can be considered entirely ‘safe’ for a wide audience. ChatGPT responds to prompts from users by using the relationships calculated during the training process to construct a linguistically accurate response. Whilst LLMs are sometimes said to use statistics to ‘predict the next word’ in their response; in actuality...
Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is the first step in beating superbugs to defeat poverty?

...work by interferring with normal ribosomal functions, preventing accurate protein synthesis. The antibiotics seen as the light sources are spectinomycin, streptomycin and paromomycin. On May 26, 2016, researchers at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center reported the first case of what they called a “truly pan-drug resistant bacteria.” By now, the story has...
Create stunning images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Create stunning images of the Universe

...work horse of astronomy is the optical telescope. From its inspirational beginnings, being pointed to the sky for the first time in the 1600’s by Galileo Galilei, to the goliaths of modern-day astronomy, such as the Gran Telescopio Canerias with its 10.4 metre mirror, all allow us to get clearer and more detailed views of objects further and further out into the...