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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...history of many business start-ups but they often fail as grants and support decrease. Distances to the Belfast hub mean fewer jobs are available in government departments – a major employer in the rest of NI. Despite the Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland (ROI) border, much of Fermanagh’s focus is southwards and westwards into ROI. The focus of cultural, economic,...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...history, about three million and about 120 000 years ago where the global mean sea level was several meters higher than today. [Fig. 1 Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions] Fig. 1 | Bedrock topography. Bedmap-2 dataset (Fretwell et al., 2013) compiled from different observations with labels of important locations. The proposed...
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Studying Environments and Societies
Society, Politics & Law

Studying Environments and Societies

...history of working with physical environment and the social environment together. And that form of geographical imagination, as we said earlier on, is key to bringing those things back together and that’s what we want to try and do in this module. Michael: Brilliant! Thank you. This is a second level module, part of Q99, and it hits the shelves in - ? George: In...
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Exploring the icy moons
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the icy moons

...history of the solar system, we might understand more about the extremes to which things can go, about how planets react when the climate or the atmospheric composition is drastically changed. For example, Venus is currently a high-pressure hothouse, a kind of extreme extrapolation of climate change. But it could have been very different, possibly more Earth-like,...
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Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...history has focused on the WSPU and to this extent Sylvia has been eclipsed by her mother and sister. Whereas Sylvia sought to build a mass movement among working class women, the WSPU after 1907 sought the support of wealthy, articulate or influential women in which the deeds of individuals were highly prized and received much attention at the time and by suffrage...
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What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of interdisciplinary study?

...history or science and mathematics. Studying topics thematically is one way to bring ideas together resulting in more meaningful learning. This can occur by allowing students to choose their own subjects and their learning is deepened when they reflect on the connections between what they are learning in different disciplines. One of the biggest barriers to achieving true...
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Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...history of smallpox – the first infectious disease to be eradicated by a vaccination programme. At the end of section 1, we ask you to read an article on the history of smallpox, then, before continuing further with this course, you should turn to the case study on polio, where we discuss the prospects for making this the second infectious disease to be eradicated by...
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True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...Families were split - even at the very top Vernon Bogdanor pointed out that Harold Wilson didn't just have a split at the cabinet table - he faced one across the breakfast table, too: One of the antis, Barbara Castle, said in her memoirs she was putting the case to a lady in her constituency against membership and the lady said, “Well, I have heard what you have said,...
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