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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...techniques to demonstrate the test’s validity (measures what it intends to measure) and reliability (produces consistent results over time, individuals and situations), and so these can take years to develop. Employers should then choose relevant tests to measure the skills, abilities and/or traits that are specifically relevant to the job role being selected for....
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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...techniques for longevity and immortality which have a very long history. One specific incident she has explored was the 1938 kuṭīpraveśika rejuvenation treatment of Pandit Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946), nationalist leader and chancellor of Benares Hindu University by a sadhu reputed to be over 200 years old at the time (Swami Tapasviji aka Tapsi Baba (c. 1770?–1955)....
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Astrobiology from the ground up
Science, Maths & Technology

Astrobiology from the ground up

...techniques, such as paleoecology (the study of the ecology of fossil plant and animal communities), go even further back. Astrobiology is interested in how ecological communities develop in extreme environments to enable us to draw out some principles for the development of life on other planets, so a long-term ecological perspective is important. It strikes me that if we...
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Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO
Education & Development

Building Science and Technology Diplomacy Skills through CARE–KNOW–DO

...Techniques and AI Tools (p. 172). Springer Nature. Available at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-54677-8 Okada, A., Sherborne, T., Panselinas, G. and Kolionis, G. (2025) ‘Fostering transversal skills through open schooling supported by the CARE–KNOW–DO pedagogical model and the UNESCO AI competencies framework’, International Journal of Artificial...
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FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT

...Techniques such as the ABC (Activating Event, Beliefs, Consequences) reframing approach and grounding exercises can help restore steadiness and a sense of control. The diagram below outlines a model of reversing the vicious cycle of anxiety. [Flow diagram showing how to break the vicious cycle of anxiety. The cycle encourages confronting feared situations without relying...
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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...techniques. One, positron emission tomography (PET), highlights different metabolic processes in the brain, such as oxygen and sugar use. Another, known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), can reveal active centres in the brain by detecting the tiny surges in blood flow that take place as a mind whirrs. Owen wondered whether he could use these technologies to...
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The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...technique for treating a particular condition. They may: publish a full presentation of their work in a medical journal publish a ‘lighter’ version with less technical jargon and fewer of the details in a more general ‘popular’ science magazine write a short piece with no technical language for national news media produce posters or infographics for grabbing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...technique called ELISA, in a virtual laboratory. You should now go to Week 3...Week 2: How the immune system combats viral infection: Glossary - * antigen processing The process by which antigen is presented to lymphocytes in a form they can recognise. Most CD4+ T cells must be presented with antigen on MHC class II molecules, while CD8+ CTL cells only recognise antigen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs