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Explainer: What is autophagy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: What is autophagy?

...work? [A human cell treated with a compound which induces autophagy] Figure 1: A human cell treated with a compound which induces autophagy. Autophagosomes are visible as small bright green speckles. The general mechanisms of autophagy are thought to be highly similar in all eukaryotic organisms. Defective cell components are engulfed by a membrane, which wraps around the...
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Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...work of 16 experts and analysts from the German Development Institute (DIE), the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in Kenya, the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden, in cooperation with the UNFCCC secretariat, and supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to a statement from DIE last month (16 January). Visit...
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‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring
Society, Politics & Law

‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring

...challenge, however, is the need by experts and officials to recognise citizen sensing as a valuable and valid way to investigate environmental change and to engage in more open forms of knowledge-making. Kim Kullman is a Lecturer in Geography and works as a Block Lead on the new module ‘Environment and Society’ (DD213), which will be available for study in 2018....
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What is Talk Factory?
Education & Development

What is Talk Factory?

...work. Also, the iOS app can be used outdoors on iPads or iPhones. The Android app can be used on mobile devices running the Android operating system. [A screenshot from the app shows a bar graph with green. orange, yellow and blue bars against a grey background. The vertical axis shows the number of occurrences and the horizontal axis shows the kind of behaviour, ranging...
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Prospecting for water on the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Prospecting for water on the Moon

...working with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop new instruments to prospect for lunar water. The first project is building for ESA a miniature science laboratory called ProSPA which will land near the south pole in 2024. Samples drilled from on and below the surface will be analysed in situ, and ProSPA will take close-up photos of these new, icy samples and use...
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Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’
Society, Politics & Law

Section 1: Introducing ‘Red Clydeside’

...Working Week. The centenary of this momentous occasion was marked by an Open University learning event on George Square on January 31, 1919, and the Glasgow May Day celebrations on May 6, 2019, also paid homage to the strikers and to the events of 1919. The period referred to as Red Clydeside has given rise to numerous publications, including autobiographies and...
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What are the rules around assisted suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are the rules around assisted suicide?

...working to save life in the role of helping to take life has the potential to destroy trust. This is also what is known as the ‘thin end of the wedge’ argument, that there might be pressure on some dying people who are afraid to be seen as a burden. Simon refers to this himself when he says that he doesn’t think everybody should be able to choose assisted suicide....
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The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...working in certain professions such as manufacturing, so they were forced into alternative professions. Fear of Jews was compounded by envy of their success as doctors, merchants and bankers. As moneylenders, Jews played an important part in the Venetian economy. They were also a convenient source of taxation. But the Venetian desire to limit their contact with Christians...
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