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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...et al (2014) shows how people aged 60 to 90 yrs experience problems with bending, reaching, reading dials and having a place to sit. This makes this hub of the home problematic. Some continually adapt their housing to make it more ‘homely’ but this depends on resources, skills and recognition of ageing needs by the retail market. Second, where an older person’s...
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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...et al., 2019). They showed how they could apply frameworks for thinking about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), originally written for Higher Education settings paper (Warwick, 2016; Winter et al., 2015), to a wide range of their own school-age settings. The consensus was: EfS needs to become part of an intended ‘hidden’ curriculum, not a bolt-on EfS should...
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Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...et al., 2013). Essentially, this involves the management, adjustment, and modification of one’s thoughts, actions, and affect, respectively (Holliman et al., 2021). Adaptability and resilience are closely connected in sports because both help athletes and teams overcome challenges and perform under pressure. In such a fast-paced game every match presents a choice –...
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Creu cysylltiadau mewn sgyrsiau diwedd oes: awgrymiadau hanfodol i weithwyr proffesiynol
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creu cysylltiadau mewn sgyrsiau diwedd oes: awgrymiadau hanfodol i weithwyr proffesiynol

...et al., 2023). Mae prosiect cydweithredol rhyngwladol dan arweiniad academyddion o’r Iseldiroedd a’r DU wedi defnyddio canfyddiadau ymchwil amlddisgyblaethol i ystyried y modd y gall gweithwyr proffesiynol iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol ymdrin â dewisiadau cyfathrebu cleifion. Ceir tair strategaeth hollbwysig a all gynorthwyo yn hyn o beth: Dylid pennu dewis y claf ar...
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Rugby tackles homophobia
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby tackles homophobia

...double lives’ in rugby, as can also be seen in Ashwin Willemse’s story of becoming a Springbok. But overall, the sub culture of rugby seems to be raising awareness of gay issues and seems to be making a big effort to challenge homophobia which also could enable a much less narrow definition of masculinity to be accepted in rugby. To learn more about sports and...
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Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network

...doubling that level could unleash catastrophic sea level rise this century...[Broken polar ice floes floating on the sea in Antarctica] Polar ice may melt faster and heat transfer from the tropics shut down The world is now halfway towards the internationally-agreed safety limit of a maximum 2°C rise in global average temperatures, researchers say. That limit seeks to...
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Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...double helix structure (fig.1). Our genome contains around 3 billion of nucleotides, which can act like a code to create other molecules called RNAs. This process is called transcription. These RNA transcripts can be used again as a code to create proteins via a process called translation (fig.1). Both transcription and translation work using other molecules called...
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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...sang me a few songs, songs that brides used to sing after their weddings as they left their parents’ homes to go and live with their in-laws. These were songs about separation, originally filled with sorrow. But slowly it became a social phenomenon. People started creating literature around it, adding humour and sarcasm. And because not everyone is good at crying, the...
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