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COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...migrate from one host to the next, which in turn is contingent on biological and environmental factors. It depends on the infection–host interaction through, for instance, the duration of the infectious period. It is also affected by the frequency and type of contacts that take place within the population, which vary according to environmental, social and cultural...
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...migration of displaced populations. Public disclosures of numerous cases of brutal, inhuman and tyrannical mistreatment of millions of ordinary civilians emerged. This mistreatment was at the instigation, or with the connivance or concurrence, of the state, by those in positions of power and those in government. There was almost universal disgust and condemnation at the...
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...migration. A name change from the European Economic Community (EEC) to the European Union (EU) in 1993 reflected this. The EU is based on the rule of law: everything it does is founded on treaties, voluntarily and democratically agreed by its member countries. The EU is also governed by the principle of representative democracy, with citizens directly represented at Union...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...migrating birds from northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere and the airport itself is very close to the equator.So bird strikes were, for some years back, a big concern by airlines. They were having damages to engines. We had to take up a corrective measure.Nature Uganda, which is an organisation that is actually taking care of wildlife being left within its natural...
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...migrated to live in towns and worked in factories. Before the Industrial Revolution there were many jobs that could be done by people with learning disabilities, such as scaring crows, caring for animals and running errands. First, listen to historian Simon Jarrett in Video 2 who argues that society was far more inclusive of people with learning disabilities in that...
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...migrated. She could have been a slave, a very high-- you know, beloved slave. She could have been part of like a merchant or trading family. I mean, the possibilities-- HELEN KING Yes, for London. There’s lots of possibilities. Was she healthy? REBECCA REDFERN She had experienced rickets as a child and had recovered. We’ve got slight bowing of her forearm bones here....
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...migration to the towns was stalling the spread of literacy among the lower classes. At the same time, the dissemination of cheap, seditious literature, such as Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (1791), suggested to the ruling elite that the acquisition and use of the skills of reading and writing needed to be controlled. A growing number of philanthropic individuals and...
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Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...migration mental health’, Transcultural Psychiatry, 59(2), pp. 175–87. Mander, S. (2021) ‘Well-being, mental health and the student population’, in Williams-Brown, Z. and Mander, S. (eds) Childhood well-being and resilience: influences on educational outcomes. Abingdon: Routledge. Mani, A., Mullainathan, S., Shafir, E. and Zhao, J. (2013) ‘Poverty impedes...