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Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...multiple websites are offering free-to-access resources, teachers and support staff are making packed lunches, some even delivering them, and in playgrounds sports equipment that has gone dusty has found a new purpose, then there are the teachers wrestling with Google classrooms to get their learning rapidly online. Research from the Sutton Trust reports that by the start...
The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...multiple eyebar assemblies provide multiple load-paths. Photographs from the time of construction, along with the engineering plans, are still preserved in the local county archive…. Bill Connery This is a plan view of the Sixth Street Bridge, it’s approximately 995 feet long and 77 feet high and it gives general notes to the contractor or the erector on the assembly...
Neither land nor sea
Nature & Environment

Neither land nor sea

...multiple interrelationships between the coast and the people of the archipelago. It does this through supporting text, images and other materials. It focuses on the residents of one small island, Nain Pulau (Nain Island), providing some insights into liminal living and looking at the livelihood strategy of seaweed farming. The images and video come from an expedition to...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...multiplication of times 100 percent postfix times Activity 5 Average gross annual rate Timing: Allow 15 minutes to complete this activity Calculate the average gross annual rate of return on project B. Answer equation left hand side cap p times cap i equals right hand side pound 100 000 £ equation left hand side cap n times cap c times cap f equals right hand side pound...
Water jet cutting (Hydrodynamic cutting)
Science, Maths & Technology

Water jet cutting (Hydrodynamic cutting)

...multiple passes which, although reducing cutting speed, have the advantage of using less overall energy per unit length of cut. Since there is no force perpendicular to the water jet and very little frictional drag in the cut, accurate fixing and positioning of the workpiece is easy. Single or multiple cutting heads can be used, and positioning can be by hand, CNC or...
Understanding interstrand crosslink repair in Drosophila
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding interstrand crosslink repair in Drosophila

...multiple wing hair clone ] Fig 1: A multiple wing hair clone This project exploits the genetic similarities between the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and humans in order to investigate and understand the role of the two related 3’-5’ exonucleases, CG7670 and CG6744 exonuclease, in the repair of interstrand crosslinks (ICL) in the fruit fly. Based on protein...
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...multiplication 10 super 37 . The time to carry out the algorithm with the exponential run-time soon becomes unfeasibly long as the size of the data set increases...Introduction to quantum computing: 1.2 What can quantum computers do? - Quantum computing offers a new computing approach that is based on the idea that the rules of quantum mechanics can allow shortcuts to...
What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...multiple copies held by the volunteers in the user community. Volunteers are rewarded for their effort through a number of algorithmic processes that can result in payment. Small payments can be attached to individual transactions. Consensus on what types of blocks and transactions can be part of the blockchain is automatically reached according to whether the majority of...