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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...et al., 2019). These risk factors reflect a variety of complex processes including children being separated from their parent and the disturbance this causes; financial struggles; stigma and difficulties in trying to keep in contact with the imprisoned parent (Murray & Farrington, 2008). It can be extremely traumatic for a child to watch their parent or family member...
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Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws
History & The Arts

Milton Keynes rallies in support of the Corn Laws

...circulated by the Essex farmers, and which many of them had seen. If the facts stated there,as regarded the free importation of corn, were correct, it behoved them to exert themselves to the utmost for their own salvation. It appeared that the gross produce of agriculture was almost £300,000,000 yearly, whilset the produce of manufactures was £173,000,000, being but...
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Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy

...circulated. Under the main portal of www.madrid.tomalaplaza.net lies a virtual public sphere composed of numerous websites, blogs, twitter accounts, the 15Mpedia, Facebook communities, Internet radio stations like Agora Sol Radio and YouTube channels such as Spanishrevolutionsol. Yet how do we measure the significance and impact of the 15M for politics in Spain? For many...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage

...circulation. The balance between the flow of warm currents transporting heat from the equator towards the poles and the flow of cold water away is a key element determining our climate. Recent studies suggest the coldest water in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is being pushed further southwards due to rising temperatures.The opening of the Drake Passage is...
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Rotational moulding (Rotational or rotary casting)
Science, Maths & Technology

Rotational moulding (Rotational or rotary casting)

...circulating hot oil through a mould jacket: a. Hot air; slow, accurate temperature control. b. Direct flame; fast, poor temperature control. c. Molten salts; fast, accurate temperature control, expensive. d. Oil; fast, accurate temperature control, expensive, can be used “on-site”. Mould temperatures vary from 200 to 400°C with heating times from 5 to 30 min. Mould...
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What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?
Science, Maths & Technology

What effects does mercury have on health and the environment?

...circulated globally. How does mercury get into the food chain? Through chemical reaction and precipitation it enters freshwater lakes and rivers, where it accumulates in the sediments at the bottom. Here it is transformed by bacteria into a variety of mercury compounds, particularly methyl mercury (chemical formula: CH3Hg+) which is highly toxic. From freshwater sediments...
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Is Bitcoin a bubble - and why must it burst?
Money & Business

Is Bitcoin a bubble - and why must it burst?

...circulation). This means that as more people mine for Bitcoin and more blocks are created, each block is, all things being equal, worth less than the previous block. The second measure we looked at relates to the “hash rate”. This is the speed at which a computer operates when mining. To successfully mine Bitcoin, you must come up with a 64-digit hexadecimal number...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...circulate that Godwin had ‘sold’ his daughters Mary and Claire to Shelley, after Shelley had invested money in the bookshop that Godwin ran. Shelley himself was a huge admirer of both Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and his own philosophy had been greatly influenced by Godwin’s political treatise Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. One of the key ideas that he took...
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