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How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...working with the PMA2020 and will integrate the data into national monitoring and evaluation systems. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director and under-secretary-general of the United Nations, tells SciDev.Net that governments and all partners in reproductive health need to provide information and access to voluntary family planning to all people of reproductive age....
Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert
Languages

Learn 40 hand signals used by the Aboriginal people of the Western Australian Desert

...working in the area when the idea for an explanatory video came up. He explained the importance of these hand signs: While many visitors quickly learn the standard “what now?” sign, it is easy to miss the dozens of diverse hand signals being subtly exchanged in conversation. As in all languages, some elements are traditional and others are recent innovations… hand...
When should you use a stacked area chart?
Science, Maths & Technology

When should you use a stacked area chart?

...works pretty well in this case, because we have only three companies, and Green’s slope is gentle enough that it doesn’t distort our view of Blue. If, however, we had more companies to track, it’s a good bet that at least one of them would look worse than it is because of the tilted baseline problem. The solution to this problem is to avoid the sexy stacked area...
How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...this sort of vegetation,” he points out. Lucíola Lannes, also a biologist, at the engineering faculty of São Paulo State University in Brazil, says: “the work shows that carbon dioxide mitigation policies that favour fire suppressions cannot be a priority conservation policy in El Cerrado”. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
Week 1 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 1 Civilisations: The debate

...works of art, filmed in a mind-boggling range of locations, in response to Kenneth Clark's original Civilisation of 1969. Tonight's episode was presented by Simon Schama, who will host five episodes, but there will also be two each presented by Mary Beard and David Olusoga. Along the way the OU has been a partner on the program, and Gill Perry and I have been providing...
Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public

...work has on the wider public. This is especially important for peer reviewed publications in the wider areas of health and social care, where the findings of some research studies may directly facilitate a behaviour change that might be beneficial to the individual and the public. For example, very early in the course of the pandemic we recognised that the risk of dying...
Transfer moulding
Science, Maths & Technology

Transfer moulding

...work is done on the material during the transfer process, and the heat transfer paths are shorter. This leads to faster heating, curing and cycle times than compression moulding. Materials: Materials are normally thermosetting polymers such as PF, UF, MF, epoxies and rubbers. Additives may be mixed with the base material to encourage free-flowing characteristics. Design:...
Hot rolling
Science, Maths & Technology

Hot rolling

...work metals than with cold rolling. Cast ingot structures, at heavy deformations and at temperatures where recrystallisation occurs, promote recrystallisation. Control of the sheet temperature can produce fine-grained structures. Design: Shaped rolling can be used to produce a wide variety of useful-shaped sections in continuous lengths: this includes T, L and U sections,...
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