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Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?
Science, Maths & Technology

Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?

...Research has linked the gut microbiota with various health-related factors, including immune system function and regulation, energy regulation, and even complex conditions such as Autism and Alzheimer’s disease as well as inflammatory conditions. Inflammation is how the body naturally reacts to infection. It is a protective mechanism designed to help the body heal and...
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Article 5 mins
The environmental costs of Trump’s wall
Nature & Environment

The environmental costs of Trump’s wall

...research. [An animal looks toward the camera as it climbs across a log or branch. The animal looks like a racoon in shape and face, with a white snout and white fur about its eyes. Its paws are black dexterous and its ears are small on top of its head. Most of its fur is pale brown and fawn coloured, except for along the arms where its darker.] Researchers found fewer...
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Article 10 mins
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...centre The full training and development of highly skilled and specialist staff Discussion Both of these decisions would come under long-term planning as the time horizon in each case is many years. In the case of the new facility it can take many years to obtain the right permissions and funding. To develop a highly skilled workforce again the lead time can be many years...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education
Education & Development

Developing Stamina for Decolonising Higher Education

...researchers, artists, educators, students, activists and ancestral/Indigenous knowledge keepers who work together to develop educational and artistic experiments. There are many different ways of conceptualising decolonisation, but in the GTDF Collective we approach it as a difficult, ongoing process and long-term horizon, rather than a single event. This is because, in...
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Video 10 mins
Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...Research Service, 2017) US England & Wales More guns than people: It is estimated that there are 120.5 civilian firearms (legal and illegal) per 100 people in the US in 2017 This means that with a population of 326 million (2017), there were 393 million guns Far fewer civilian firearms: It is estimated that there are 4.6 civilian firearms (legal and illegal) per 100...
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Article 10 mins
Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...research into social work writing (Lillis et al., 2017) can help us consider the current opportunities and challenges that AI brings. Understanding the core elements of social work writing and how social workers learn to write effectively is crucial. Social workers need to consider how to use AI effectively in their writing without compromising their professional ethics...
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Article 5 mins
Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think tank Demos undertook research on the rise of xenophobia and racism on Twitter. Looking at the ways in which this rise may have been related to campaigning tactics and the referendum result, the study also gives an indication of the ways in which Twitter was used to both report hate speech incidents and to express...
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Article 15 mins
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...children. [A tamil family] Figure 3 Three generations of a Tamil family – the women are wearing saris (saylay, in Tamil), while the patriarch is wearing a vertti, and the young girl in the front is wearing a pavaadai. Activity 1 Select the answer for Question 1a here True or false. Tamil is an official language only in India. True False a. True b. False The correct...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs