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Rare diseases are important too: Investigating Idiopatic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases are important too: Investigating Idiopatic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)

...work is focused on exploring the following question: “why do females on a high fat diet show a higher increase of CSF secretion and decrease of drainage than males on the same diet?” We can explore this by looking at some of the differences between genders – for example, differences in hormone levels and how these differences affect CSF secretion and drainage....
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The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...work. They are the commuters cramming themselves onto Mumbai’s crowded suburban trains, making more than 2.5 billion journeys per year. The trains are busy, hot and the city’s transport network is tested to its very limits daily. The equivalent traffic of all 270 stations of the London tube network, rushes through one single station - Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus -...
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Herodotus 'The Histories'
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories'

...work, ‘The Histories’, Herodotus explores the world of his own time, offering a narrative discourse that reflects on conflicts in the past that had given rise to its present organisation. He remarks on noteworthy deeds of Greek and non-Greek people, placing his narrative in the context of towns and cities that had risen and fallen. In ‘The Histories’, Herodotus is...
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Preparing tutorials for dyslexic language students
Education & Development

Preparing tutorials for dyslexic language students

...works for them and how they would like to be helped. Many dyslexic learners find it helpful to read texts written on a darker background. If this is the case for a particular student, the teacher can send a PowerPoint template containing a set of different backgrounds to choose from. The chosen background can then be used in all slides or whiteboards in lessons. Before...
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Ramadan Mubarak!
History & The Arts

Ramadan Mubarak!

...and from their adaptation to living, working and studying in Britain. In various ways, they make the point that they do not experience Ramadan as a burden but as an integral part of their commitment to living better lives. That seems an ambition to which no-one could object. We wish our Muslim colleagues, students and friends a happy Ramadan! More on Islam and religion...
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What's creative about creative writing?
History & The Arts

What's creative about creative writing?

...work? Listen to translators, authors and creative writing teachers as they explore these and other questions of creativity...This collection of interviews with writers, literary agents, educators and translators looks at what creativity means in the context of ‘creative writing’. We hear leading figures from the world of literature consider questions such as: Can...
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Dating apps: is swiping right a thing of the past?
History & The Arts

Dating apps: is swiping right a thing of the past?

...want more time off screen and more human connection? This Valentine’s Day the key to someone’s heart may be at a fun live event on your doorstep instead of through a screen… but it did work for me, three years married from a Scottish tinder match back in the hay day of dating apps in 2018. See more of our Valentine's content in our OpenLearn Valentine's collection....
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Nanotechnology: Good things come in small packages
Science, Maths & Technology

Nanotechnology: Good things come in small packages

...work? The question lies on how these nanoparticles can provide the advantages described above? The answer is simple. These nano-carriers either interact with the cell surface because of their charge and surface properties that make them accumulate into cancer cells that are characterized by leaky blood vessels and not into healthy cells or by “receptor-mediated”...
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