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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...et al., 2013). CLN3 disease is caused by the inheritance of a mutant copy of the CLN3 gene from both parents, which causes a protein found inside cells to be incorrectly assembled, affecting cellular function (Butz et al., 2020). The symptoms start around 4-8 years of age with eyesight deterioration. Affected children also begin to suffer seizures, along with changes to...
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...Institutional Visit where you spent three months in New York City. What was it like to be a visiting cycling researcher amongst American academics? Peter Wood: It was absolutely fantastic. Cycling in America is growing just as it is in London. It’s a thing that’s growing in a lot of the large cities of America. There are a lot of ties with the creative economy and a...
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Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...institutions. Brexit was just the latest blow to ever closer union, albeit a highly symbolic one. Since the Brexit referendum, for the first time the EU has become a project that both enlarges and shrinks simultaneously; that deepens integration in some policy areas and risk disintegration in others. The UK’s exit from the EU is certainly to blame, but the...
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Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...institutions, especially since the EU is perceived to suffer from a ‘democratic deficit’. This effort is evident, for example, in the Lisbon Treaty (2009), which states that: ‘Every citizen shall have the right to participate in the democratic life of the Union. Decisions shall be taken as openly and as closely as possible to the citizen’ (Article 10). This debate...
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About Transition to Higher Education in Northern Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

About Transition to Higher Education in Northern Ireland

...institutions across Northern Ireland to support students get off to a great start at their new university or college. Whether you’re about to move on to higher education, or if you’re supporting someone who is – perhaps as a parent, teacher, carer or adviser, this hub can help you. You can search by topic – like study skills, wellbeing and mental health, or...
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Evolution and the human family
Science, Maths & Technology

Evolution and the human family

...institutions like the family? If so, how can it help us to understand how family structures have evolved? If not, what are the limitations of a Darwinian approach? In this album, Ruth Mace, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at UCL in London, reveals how she uses a Darwinian approach to study diverse human populations. In particular, she focuses her discussion on family...
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British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds
Society, Politics & Law

British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds

...institutions, such as the European Court of Justice. To reach this conclusion The Policy Institute at King’s College London, along with RAND Europe and the University of Cambridge, used an economic approach known as “stated preference discrete choice experiments” to measure how the British public value different components of a Brexit deal. This is more rigorous...
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How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...Institute for Space Research’s Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies, and one of the study’s authors. “Now we verified that their presence is one reason why some storms become so strong and produce so much rain in Amazon region.” Pérola de Castro Vasconcellos, a chemist at the University of Sao Paulo’s Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry Studies,...
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