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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...human languages and understand all cultures. Life in the spirit world is very pleasant and the children have many friends there and are often very reluctant to leave it for an earthly family (a fictional account of a spirit child’s journey between the spirit and the earthly world is given in Ben Okri’s novel, The Famished Road). When they are born, they remain in...
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Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...Human Behaviour, 4, pp. 736–745. Policeconduct.gov.uk (2020) StackPath. Available at: https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk (Accessed: 11 February 2021). Potter, G. (2018) The history of policing in the United States. Available at: https://plsonline.eku.edu/sites/plsonline.eku.edu/files/the-history-of-policing-in-us.pdf (Accessed: 15 December 2020). Prison Policy Initiative...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...Human Nature: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computer Ethics – Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2013). Portugal: International Society of Ethics and Information Technology, pp. 28–35. Chakravartty, P. and Mills, M. (2018) ‘Virtual Roundtable on “Decolonial Computing”’, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 4(2), pp. 1–4. Available at:...
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What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...human behaviour and connections by studying psychology. I also wanted to learn more about my sister’s condition. During my second year at university, I visited a centre in Sri Lanka that supported autistic children and learned about physical and sensory therapies. I struggled to manage my caring role during my third year of university, as my parents were unwell. My...
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Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...human society and conditions and the multi-cultural nature of society. Whenever relevant, it should take account of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race, culture and religion in its design, undertaking, and reporting. The body of research evidence available to policy makers should reflect the diversity of the population.’ This consideration can only be...
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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...human society, a single language has become sufficiently universal that it can be used as a global lingua franca for communication between speakers of many languages. The history of English has traditionally been divided into three main phases: Old English (450-1100 AD), Middle English (1100-circa 1600 AD) and Modern English (since 1600). But it seems that Global English...
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Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...humanity back to Paris. (p. 186) It is hard to imagine a serious historian writing in this way today. (The use of Mecca as a trope here is particularly inappropriate.) Black lesbian sexuality in the 1960s/70s One account of black lesbian sexuality during the 1960s is provided in the white writer Val Wilmer’s autobiography about her life as a photographer of jazz...
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Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)
Science, Maths & Technology

Broken Hearts in Batten Disease (Juvenile Dementia)

...humans at biology level] Electron micrograph of a ventricular cardiac myocyte from a mouse How is the effect of CLN3 on heart function studied? The majority of laboratory research into this disease has focussed on investigating why patients suffer vision loss and neurological symptoms; making the eyes and especially the brain most commonly studied. CLN3 research is mainly...
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