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How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...law. It also wants consideration of penalties to take account of the violence as an aggravating element. Criminalisation raises concerns about driving the problem underground, and diverting resources away from legal aid and welfare services. Offences introduced on forced marriage and female genital mutilation have so far not yielded any or many prosecutions and...
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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...law enforcement symbol while in France they say 'franchir la ligne jaune' (to cross the yellow line). Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde explains how language idioms are useful for language learners: "There is an expression in French to denote how an individual may have tastes and ways of looking at things that are not shared by others, ‘des goûts et des couleurs, on ne...
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Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Is Q still the answer?

...laws, and more as a discipline whose subject matter is tightly bound to the flow of historical, biographical and experiential time. Q methodology allowed me to take snapshots of regions of relative stability amidst the flux. Each narrative version of authenticity could be likened to a whirlpool or eddy, its integrity kept alive by its movement as it is passed from speaker...
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Laser cutting
Science, Maths & Technology

Laser cutting

...law for direct and reflected laser light. Guide to cutting speeds using a 1kW CO2 [Diagram to demonstrate 'Laser Cutting' - see article ] Comparative cutting speeds [Diagram to demonstrate 'Laser Cutting' - see article ] Materials: Laser cutting is currently used on metals, glasses, ceramics, polymers, cloth, wood and paper in a wide variety of industries. In some...
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Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends
Science, Maths & Technology

Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends

...law to the underlying symmetry of space itself – in fact, the conservation of energy is a result of the fact that empty space 'looks the same' from one moment to the next. Put another way, if empty space were rough or lumpy, then energy would be lost as things moved through, but the fact that space is symmetric and smooth means that energy cannot be lost. It is because...
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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...law-giver in Greek culture, and a reflection of a lot of real travel in the eastern Mediterranean by 6th century Greeks. Solon's reforms are conventionally dated to the first decade of the 6th century. Croesus, by Herodotus' chronology, was born in 595 BC. If Solon had undertaken his reforms, departed Athens, and then come to see him at the end of ten years, Croesus would...
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Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...law to prevent researchers disclosing security problems. For example, scientists from the University of Birmingham faced a legal injunction from car manufacturer Volkswagen stopping them publishing details of flaws in car keyless entry systems. The preferred route is “responsible disclosure”. When researchers discover a problem, they tell a small number of relevant...
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Becoming a University of Sanctuary
Society, Politics & Law

Becoming a University of Sanctuary

...Law, Head of Department and Chair of the Sanctuary Advisory Network at The OU, explains what this means...To be acknowledged as a University of Sanctuary, higher education institutions have to demonstrate that they are meeting a series of outcomes relevant to supporting those from a forced migration background. This includes a clear commitment, for example, to supporting...
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