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The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...simple to use structured query language (SQL) CREATE TABLE statements to define tables, or to use the facilities of a database tool to define them for you. Once developed, the tables can be manipulated and displayed in many different ways, again using SQL statements, a database tool or an application development tool. However, uncontrolled ad hoc creation of tables by end...
Languages and the refugee crisis
Languages

Languages and the refugee crisis

...simple but very effective strategies such as speaking slowly or avoiding using idioms or jargon. Other steps can include abstaining from stereotyping, exploring and acknowledging the differences between their own culture and that of their new neighbours’, or even learning their language – only a few useful phrases, to express greetings or say thank you can make a huge...
Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...simple souls, capable of feeling or thinking only one thing at a time. On any given day, confronted by some political event – for example, the government’s recent refusal to invest extra funds in the NHS – I can experience several emotions at once: a degree of rage, but also a sense of despair, possibly accompanied by a feeling of guilt (this is, after all, my...
Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...simple protectionism from two increasingly-successful foreign companies. Huawei is the world’s second-largest maker of mobile phones and a major supplier of telecommunications products to companies such as BT. As part of its expansion in the UK, Huawei is obliged to work with government agencies and telecom operators to prove the security of its hardware and software at...
The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...simple, bacteria have some powerful tools at their disposal and one is the ability to transfer genes for antibiotic resistance to other bacteria. So if one strain becomes antibiotic-resistant, others will follow. And then we would be back to where we were before 1941, which isn’t a pleasant prospect. There are some good news in our battle with one high-profile virus;...
Exploring comets: A short introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring comets: A short introduction

...simple organic molecules – two sorts of hydrogen cyanide and also formaldehyde – being made in comets today. Missions to comets Small wonder, then, that comets have been the targets of several space missions. To date, eight comets have been visited over the course of ten successful missions. In 1982, a probe called ISEE-3, which had already been in space for four...
How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...simple wordlist can act as a springboard for our analysis of the novel. We can, for example, compare the high frequency of man (137 occurrences) and father (134) with the only 24 occurrences of woman and the 33 of mother. This can lead us to formulate hypotheses on how gender is represented within the novel, which we can then develop by reading the novel with our own...
Struggling in silence: Why we need to talk about autistic people’s experiences of menstruation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Struggling in silence: Why we need to talk about autistic people’s experiences of menstruation

...simple terms, executive functioning skills refer to our ability to carry out complex tasks, remember information, retain our focus and plan, prioritise and organise. Those skills are particularly important when it comes to responding to the needs of your body during menstruation, and autistic people often experience difficulties with different areas of executive...