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Eid al-Fitr
History & The Arts

Eid al-Fitr

...course rather different, but it is still a time for celebration, giving, family and friendship. People usually decorate their homes, prepare special food, and put on their best clothes and wear perfume. After the congregational prayer, they usually spend some time at relatives’ graves, and visit relatives and friends, greeting them with the words Eid Mubarak (‘may...
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Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...course, is also true for autistic people. Externalising An example of externalising could be a child at school expressing their distress by slamming a door – a reaction that is immediately obvious to those around them, and one that is hard to ignore. It’s important to bear in mind, though, that while externalising might seem to be more straightforward to interpret on...
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Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...course the movement of population has not always been inward, the Newry of the 1950s was described as a town where ‘living conditions [were] basic, and most children left school at 15 years’ . In this climate emigration was a natural course and traditional links built up over years of seasonal migration to Great Britain were exploited. Newry continues to be a home for...
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Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...course of action was to imprison her. When she died it was reported that prison officers were told to delay calling an ambulance and her family were not able to see her body for three days while being given conflicting information about what had happened to her (Revesz, 2017). [Protesters at the KILL THE BILL protest] The tragic case of Sarah Reed is an example of how...
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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...course and Head of NRG research group. Her work involves applications of neural networks taking inspiration from how the brain works. She has a background in Psychology and is also interested in modelling biological systems and how that approach can be applied to A.I. On why A.I. scientists haven't already far exceeded the capacity of brains: "Well, maybe it's the way in...
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Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Caroline Underwood - Earth in Vision

...course there were many battles in the forests around it and in other watersheds and they continue to this day. I think one of the things for those of us who’ve been involved in environmental issues for so long is why haven’t we had more success? We’re finding that we’re going back and fighting the same battles that we fought before, we’re having to do it again....
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...course taster is taken from the Open University’s ‘Child Development’ course (ED209). It is an extract from one of the four course text books (Banerjee, R. (2005) ‘Gender identity and the development of gender roles’, in Ding, S. and Littleton, K. S. (eds) Children’s Personal and Social Development, Oxford, Blackwell.) © Open University 2005...Find out more...
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People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...course we talk about means or medians and we can also look at how the population is dispersed and there we might be looking at the standard deviation of the population. Sorry – need to concentrate on my driving for a moment! Tony Nixon: We’re going down a steep slope here and we’re about to tip up on our sides so – Paul Herriotts: We’re not about to tip up on...
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