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Football culture: the use of banners
Health, Sports & Psychology

Football culture: the use of banners

...simple, especially if their main purpose is to display a single current demand or slogan. They may be small, cheap and mass produced in order to be carried by a large number of people. Others, such as trade union banners, on the other hand are often unique, large and elaborate creations celebrating a union’s history and the skills of its members. Their production...
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Cytoskeleton: The cell city's transport system
Nature & Environment

Cytoskeleton: The cell city's transport system

...estates, shops in the City Centre etc. Roads and railways form an effective network of communications between these areas and give an overall shape and structure to the city. They are the most important routes for moving people and materials around. In the city, letters, for example, carry a postcode or "zip code" to help the postman ensure they reach their destination....
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Article 5 mins
Composing with MIDI
History & The Arts

Composing with MIDI

...Delivering Results The different formats for sending music, and why sending sound files rather than MIDI codes can be useful. MIDI limitations and improvements A composer reflects on the way MIDI works, and suggests areas for improvement. MIDI: the challenge Demonstrating what MIDI can do: making a general MIDI, then a dance, a synth and a jazz version of the same track....
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Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...code telegraph machine.] An antique Morse code telegraph machine The word 'telegram' may conjure up the image of a frayed yellowing document, containing a message about a now distant historical event, something with little connection to today's world. However, many of the myriad ways by which we now communicate can be seen as the telegram's direct descendants. In order to...
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Article 5 mins
Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
Education & Development

Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal

...Code of Human Research Ethics (BPS, 2021). You can also refer to guidance from the British Educational Research Association and the British Association for Applied Linguistics. [Pebbles balance on a stone see-saw] Ethical principles are essential for protecting the interests of research participants, including maximising the benefits and minimising any risks associated...
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Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...code of ethics concerning the psychological research that is conducted with human participants. You will also gain an understanding of the guidelines that govern the use of non-human animals in psychological research in a second online activity, and why psychologists conduct such research. You will have the opportunity of viewing two short films which will introduce you...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers
Nature & Environment

App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers

...simple − 25 mountains at zero latitude; 25 years from now, zero ice.” All the 25 peaks lie within 200 miles either side of the Equator. And while Jarvis does concede that some glacier traces might linger for 30 years, he says that Kilimanjaro − Africa’s highest mountain, at nearly 6,000 metres − will certainly be bare by 2040. Several years ago, Jarvis headed a...
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Multipoint cutting (translational)
Science, Maths & Technology

Multipoint cutting (translational)

...simple fixturing. Force on work depends on feed, which may be manual or power, and is normally 100–200 N but may as well be as high as 400 N when cutting a straight line. Flood or mist cooling. Blades supplied in coils that are cut to length and resistance butt-welded. Blade speeds are normally 10–400 m min-1. A wide variety of blade designs and materials available,...
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