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Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding the AFD: How to make sense of the far-right populists

...work for Goldman Sachs. She speaks fluent Mandarin and spent six years in China writing a PhD on the Chinese pension system. She is certainly not the archetypal leader of a far-right party. At the big table Now that it will sit in the federal parliament, the AfD needs learn how to deal with the challenges of real world political life inside the Bundestag. It has plenty of...
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Electrochemical Machining (ECM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Machining (ECM)

...on the principle of anodic metal dissolution by electrical energy. An electrolyte medium separates the tool (cathode) from the electrically conductive metal workpiece (anode), creating an electrolytic cell. A high amperage, low voltage current is passed through the cell, selectively dissolving away the material to be removed. Produces distortionless, burr-free components
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Redundancy - what are your next steps?
Education & Development

Redundancy - what are your next steps?

...work life balance you had longed for or even change career direction completely. Remember redundancy isn’t personal, but how you respond to it is. This article includes links to podcasts on how to prepare for, manage and come through the other side of redundancy. You can find out about support that may be available to you, advice on finance, wellbeing and career...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...work. Students who use online translation tools miss out on the actual learning potential that is an important part of carefully crafted assessments. [A graphic of a globe with the word translate in many different languages over the different countries] So how can we create assessment tasks for language learners in times of digital machine translation tools? It seems that...
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Electrochemical Grinding (ECG)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Grinding (ECG)

...work gap, is typically 0.01–0.25 mm Although the wheels are more expensive than those for conventional grinding, overall wheel costs are only 1/10 as much, as only 2–5% of the wheel removed by abrasion. Low wheel wear means less frequent wheel dressing, although the longer runs, between dressing, necessitate more precise wheel truing than for conventional grinding;...
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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...work and we’re not there yet, it’s this rich combination of outcomes and engagement that seems to have been the key to the 91 primary schools who’ve signed up so far (we need 100 – all are welcome!) I’ve spent many early mornings listening to head teachers’ concerns about their young people’s disaffected attitudes towards writing. The way in which they...
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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...working in grain and cereals. He’s broken almost every stereotype going. He was born in the same part of Jamaica as my mother and has encountered poverty, racism and some of the educational difficulties I have. I want to find out how he has coped with and overcome these challenges, and how he became a legend in the brewing industry. So this place is just full of...
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Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...working here in Oxford with Niko Tinbergen as a comparative ethologist. I was working on animal behaviour, in particular behaviour of a small fish called the ten-spined stickleback, and I did my doctorate on this fish. The essence of comparative ethology was that it was a comparatively new movement at the time and it was in opposition to animal psychology. I say...
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