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Photochemical Machining (Photo-fabrication; Chemical milling)
Science, Maths & Technology

Photochemical Machining (Photo-fabrication; Chemical milling)

...free components, unlike fine blanking. Difficult to produce parallel-sided holes due to the “undercutting” effect of the etchant. Tapered and rebated holes (impossible by fine blanking) produced using asymmetric photo-master. Process rounds off internal and external corners. This can be minimised by careful design of photo-masters, but can be an advantage as it...
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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...free choice all the time, but it is possible to negotiate options, enable the children themselves to generate possibilities and make more of their own authorial decisions as increasingly independent young writers. Through enhancing the real world relevance of writing, offering more space to Just Write and more choice, we can increase children’s intrinsic motivation to...
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Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...free to access for all. Even park designs have evolved, from open spaces imitating countryside, to including features such as miniature woodlands, floral beds or ornamental lakes. Many of Milton Keynes’s parks have designed landscapes, such as Campbell Park in the city centre, which has recently been awarded Grade II Listed status by Historic England. [aerial view of...
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Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...language and phrasing that Shelley uses. As Rosen says in this article by Alison Flood: “…the poem was full of ‘portable triggers, lines of political outrage for people to catch and hold’. He added: ‘Political writing is often like that, but in times of oppression and struggle, this is no bad thing: a portable phrase to carry with us may help.’” Ultimately,...
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Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Donald Trump's strike on Syria rewritten international law?

...language is typical of a norm-creation processes in which an action that clearly goes beyond existing law is receiving widespread international support. Though codification of a new norm can take decades, the principle can become accepted practice long before that. Today, it seems that the consensus against the use of chemical weapons is so universal that states have...
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The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?
Money & Business

The Eurozone: Magnet or Black Hole?

...language, culture and tolerance towards migrants). In economic terms the Eurozone (even with just the original eleven members) is not an Optimum Currency Area. Exchange-rate adjustment allowed EU countries to generate new jobs, and eventual wage growth, for workforces that weren’t able or willing to go abroad. So Eurozone members, no longer having currencies to devalue,...
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Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...Language Studies at The Open University. Today, I would like to draw your attention to a series of public talks titled ‘Ageing Well’. These 6 lectures are presented on a monthly basis and aim to facilitate your learning about agerelated changes and things we need to be mindful of, as we grow older. All the way through the ‘Ageing Well’ series we discuss how...
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Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators
Society, Politics & Law

Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators

...language, enabling officers and staff to identify and express their experiences in a way that contributes to healthy emotional processing. References Bolton. G. and Delderfield, R. (2018) Reflective Practice: writing and professional development. 5th edition, Sage: London. Brewin, C. R., Miller, J. K., Soffia, M., Peart, A. and Burchell, B. (2022) ‘Posttraumatic stress...
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