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Can we design places to combat loneliness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we design places to combat loneliness?

...work? Looking at peer reviewed research published in English, the team reviewed a large number of potentially relevant studies (over 7000!). They identified 57 studies which had directly looked at the relationship between the built environment and loneliness. The small number of studies internationally demonstrates that this is an area which needs more research. The...
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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?

...work using other molecules called enzymes, factors and cofactors, all of which are proteins with specific functions. Therefore, the classical definition of “gene” refers to DNA sequences, which are transcribed into RNA (mRNA) and then translated into proteins. We know today that some RNAs cannot produce proteins and it has been supposed for many years that they could...
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Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...social freedom: the freedom of the individual in relation to other people and to the state. The aim is to explain and unravel some arguments for this kind of freedom. In the process we'll be examining some of the classic philosophical defences of particular types of freedom. The stress will always be on the arguments used rather than on the detailed historical context in...
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What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...working as a CISO charged with protecting city networks challenging: “City networks grow over time, they tend to have a collection of technologies and applications that range from being brand new to being decades old.” “I come from working in a military environment where I had always owned the data that traversed my networks…I started to look at our data through a...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...work as medicines have been supplemented with biochemical analysis and research into plant pharmacology. Initially this research saw the development of pharmaceutical drugs derived from plant sources. Plants were analysed to determine which, of the dozens of complex organic compounds of which they are composed, were the "active constituents". The thinking was along the...
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How jazz came to Wales
History & The Arts

How jazz came to Wales

...working the tall-stack riverboats between Cincinnati and New Orleans: ‘Oh! Susanna’, ‘Old Folks at Home’, ‘Swanee River’, ‘Old Black Joe’ etc. Jessie returned home to Swansea in 1866 after the end of the American Civil War. She was aged 74 when The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a choir of freed slaves, arrived in town for their first performance at the Craddock...
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Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

...work in as a poet. Given this, we might expect her to be quite sceptical about translations of her work. Listen now to the first part where Angus Calder asks what has been lost in Paul Muldoon’s English translation of ‘Ceist ne Teangan’. Is there anything that strikes you as interesting about what Ní Dhomhnaill has to say here? Transcript Show Ní Dhomhnaill is...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...working as a commercial pilot can be an extremely demanding job due to the many stressors – high workload, heavy responsibilities, time pressures, fatigue, noise, and temperature – experienced while transporting thousands of passengers/cargo round the world. Dismukes, Goldsmith and Kochan (2015) outline the stressful situations pilots are exposed to: Emergencies and...
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