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Science, Maths & Technology

Mathematics for science and technology

...mode. Step 2 You should then be able to input all the data; sometimes these data are stored via a memory button, in other cases they can be entered and displayed as a list. Enter the following set of numbers: 8, 6, 9, 12, 10 Step 3 Having input the data, you can then get most calculators to tell you the number of items of data. If your calculator can do this, it should...
How to age well while self-isolating
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to age well while self-isolating

...modes of communication (watching TV, listening to the radio, reading magazines, books, crosswords), we may need to mobilise our networks from distance and not be too reserved to pick up the phone and speak to friends and relatives. This is perhaps a good time to learn a new language (which has been reported by research as immensely stimulating – together with playing...
The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...mode...Anybody who was in northern Pakistan on October 8 2005 will never forget where they were and what they were doing the moment the world started to shake. I was standing in my garden in Islamabad, as the ground seemed to sway one way and the house lurched the other. Instantly we knew that this was a massive earthquake – but just how massive only became clear once...
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...mode of evolutionary change and never over the fact of evolution itself, contrary to some Creationist misinformation. Investigations of population genetics and more detailed studies of fossil lineages have subsequently shown that neither Mayr's assumptions concerning the role of population size in speciation, nor Gould and Eldredge's inference about punctuational...
Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology
Society, Politics & Law

Public Health and Behaviour Change: from naïve sociology to naïve psychology

...mode of intervention, which requires some form of collective action’. Taking either or both of these approaches means that public health is always ‘political’: governments commission and fund most public health functions and decisions about which harms, groups or practices to target, by which methods, are often a matter of political controversy. Governments and...
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...et al., 2005) Overall, the toxicity of POPs to the polar wildlife is not completely clear, but the fact that they are manufactured only in populated regions and yet can be detected in Arctic wildlife is striking. POPs give a graphic demonstration that a region once thought of as remote is clearly physically connected to the rest of the planet. The poet Nick Drake...
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...Les empreintes digitales’ (1912) on the uniqueness of 16 ridge points on fingerprints to identify people. In 1999 the paper was found to have contained altered images and fingerprints are now considered as opinion evidence, not proof a person was there. This finding was recently reported by Miller (2013) in his law blog. August Vollmer (1876–1955) was the chief of...
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Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...et al. 2014). These symptoms are temporary, but require a period of recovery to repair. If an individual moves into their next training session without being fully recovered from the previous one, their ability to perform at their best will be inhibited. Therefore, any strategy aimed at increasing the speed of recovery is potentially advantageous. As well as being...