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Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation
Science, Maths & Technology

Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation

...Parkinson’s and Huntington’s are also caused by a build-up of misfolded proteins in the brain. What is NGLY1 deficiency? NGLY1 deficiency is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the N-glycanase gene. This means that patients with this mutation produce little to no N-glycanase protein. N-glycanase is involved in the recycling of proteins and without this old...
Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
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Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...de synthèse ; la théorie du chaos la respiration ; la digestion ; l’excrétion les maladies infectieuses ; les microbes ; les bactéries l’anthropométrie ; la carte à puce ; les empreintes génétiques la saga de la conquête spatiale a.La science impolie du corps b.L’homme et les gènes c.L’aéronautique d.Épidémik e.La biométrie : le corps identité...
Festival of Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Festival of Psychology

...Parkinson’s Disease [Dr Joshua Payne] Dr Joshua Payne Chair of British Psychological Society (Welsh Branch) Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, Wrexham Glyndŵr University Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic, neurodegenerative disorder that affects over 137,000 people in the UK, and an estimated 5million people worldwide. The symptoms of PD are characterized by...
Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...Parkinson’s Disease as well as chronic pain. Although these devices are placed within the body, they can be reprogrammed using wireless connections. The protocols which govern how data is exchanged between the implant and its programmer are not published, and crucially, in this case, not encrypted. The researchers did not have access to the inner workings of the implant...
Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...Parkinson, McDonald and Quinlan (2020), working with academics in disrupted contexts, reconceptualise academic development as community development and suggest that this participant driven construct may also be applied to marginalised academic groups across a range of settings. In similar ways, early-career academics develop in liminal spaces through communities of...
Los sonidos del Español en su historia
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Los sonidos del Español en su historia

...de textos correspondientes a distintas etapas de la historia de la lengua española, a partir de los cuales se puede observar su evolución...A excepción del primero, todos ellos son textos literarios compuestos por autores y autoras que cuentan con un gran reconocimiento por su dominio de la lengua. Edad Media - Glosa emilianense Una de las primeras ......
Advanced Spanish: Language in context
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Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...de cambio perpetuo y, en la actualidad, nos guste o no, las lenguas están cambiando de manera vertiginosa con los nuevos medios de comunicación. En esta sesión escucharás a una lingüista expresar sus opiniones sobre este tema y luego verás dos nuevas versiones de un clásico de la literatura mundial...Advanced Spanish: Language in context: 1.1 ¿Qué es una lengua...
Advanced Spanish: Protest song
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Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...de la canción protesta en el mundo y en Cuba, España y Uruguay en particular...Advanced Spanish: Protest song: 1.1 Contexto histórico - Actividad 1 En esta primera actividad vas a empezar a recoger información sobre el año 1968 con relación al contexto internacional y a la canción protesta cubana en particular. Paso 1 A lo largo de las dos sesiones siguientes, vas...