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Volunteers in Green Social prescribing: contributions and inclusion
Nature & Environment

Volunteers in Green Social prescribing: contributions and inclusion

...research concludes Third Sector). Volunteering also benefits the volunteers themselves: whether it is personal impact through gaining new or improving skills and confidence, increased wellbeing both mentally and physically, as well as socially by building a sense of purpose and belonging to the community. It often also enhances employability, as volunteering demonstrates...
Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?

...Research has shown that there was a reduction in the quality of training and sleep for many athletes (Mon-López et al., 2020), which could lead to a detraining effect and loss of fitness as well as an increased risk of injury (Sarto et al., 2020). To prevent these potential effects, athletes and coaches were required to be creative with their training sessions and...
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...Researchers collected mosquito larvae from populations near the coast, where they had been sprayed with insecticide, and from populations north of the spray area, which had never been exposed to insecticide. They exposed both samples to the insecticide. In populations near the coast, which were sprayed regularly, mosquitoes were able to withstand and survive quite strong...
Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...research center. These nonverbals are of fundamental importance to communication, and they often mean more than what is actually being said. This is something that traditional pundits fail to give due credit. This failure can be seen in previous debates in which Trump participated for the Republican presidential nomination. In most cases, pundits declared that Trump was...
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...research. This is not to say that everything that was argued or written was productive or ‘correct’. There was a lot of verbiage, fashionable silliness and toeing the line. Other arguments were often marginalised as off-message and some immensely significant thinkers were treated as ‘dead dogs’, only to return later full of vigour. Aesthetics was treated as...
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...research evidence ‛For example, see Using Experience for Learning (Boud, D. Cohen, R. and Walker, D. (eds) 1993, Open University Press, Buckingham)” to show that understandings and knowledge that one acquires through discovery is retained and developed much more readily than the understandings one acquires through being told, or even shown. Taking responsibility for...
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...children in a class. Chart to show favourite drink chosen by customers in a shopping centre. Chart to show the temperature on each day of the week. Chart to show percentage of each sale of ticket type at a concert. [Described image] Figure 1 Different types of charts and graphs Answer Chart to show the heights of children in a class. The best choice here is (d) the bar...
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Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...Centre méditerranéen du cinéma il y a une cinquantaine d’années. Et puis Paul Carpita qui au lendemain de la guerre a tourné un film dont le titre est “Sur les quais” qui racontait l’histoire des grévistes dockers de Marseille. Et puis celui qui aujourd’hui est très connu, qui est Robert Guédiguian, qui a lui aussi montré la vie des gens, la vie, la...