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Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
History & The Arts

Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony

...social circle where she was a well-known figure. She was eager for her well-connected friend Lady Llanover to obtain royal permission to dedicate the book to Queen Victoria (which Lady Llanover duly did). However, Lady Llanover was not entirely in sympathy with her motives, commenting grimly, ‘I know well the class Miss W. is most anxious to please in London’; and it...
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A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

A sport transformed: Safety in motor-racing since 1969

...social attitudes to safety and danger. No longer do we consider it acceptable that an idea of masculine identity means putting yourself in mortal danger for the sake of sport. Conclusion Over the past 50 years reducing the risks of racing drivers suffering serious and fatal injuries has become a continuous process of scientific investigation and regulatory reform. Fatal...
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When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs
Education & Development

When words escape control: Tourette syndrome and slurs

...social responsibility into conflict: the right of communities not to be confronted with language which has historically been used to demean and oppress them; and the right of people with neurological conditions to participate in public life without stigma. From a sociolinguistic perspective, words take their meaning from how they’re used in context. Slurs, for example,...
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Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool

...work with scientists and biologists to create mathematical models, and how collaborations like these can help decipher and predict a range of natural phenomena. We learn how the 17th Century saw the birth of one of the most important mathematical tools - calculus, and modern mathematicians examine the contribution of its three inventors - Fermat, Newton and Leibniz. This...
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What is a transformation process? The one minute guide
Money & Business

What is a transformation process? The one minute guide

...works] The conversion of something into something else can be described as a transformation process Sometimes, it's easy to see what has happened - like when a dairy takes milk and makes cheese from it. [How transformation works] Turning the fresh milk into cheese is a transformation process With services, though, it can be harded to imagine, but the principle is the same...
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Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...worked with see this victory as something that inspires them to achieve more.” [Somali street vendor in Downtown Toronto] Part of the mosaic: A Somali street vendor in downtown Toronto Hussen's road to Parliament is a kind of Horatio Alger-in-Canada story (Alger was an American novelist famous for his stories about boys who escape poverty through honesty and hard work)....
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Shot peening
Science, Maths & Technology

Shot peening

...working in which compressive stresses are induced in the exposed surface layers of metallic objects by controlled impingement of shot...Examples of motion and fixturing used in work-handling equipment for shot peening [Images to demonstrate 'Shot Peening' - see article ] Manufacture: The equipment used in shot peening is essentially the same as that used in shot blasting,...
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DRM explained
Digital & Computing

DRM explained

...works in this area. And that’s exactly what it’s been. I mean encryption is not going to work, DRM is not going to work, you know, it breaks the system, but, you know, it does have the effect of temporarily making it difficult to get something that you want to place a commercial value based on time with. (0’50”) Sony discovered that DRM solutions could cause more...
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