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How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...systems with drugs leaves cancer cells with no way of repairing DNA damage, so they die. Transcript As we’ve written about on the Cancer Research UK blog, this idea forms the basis of an entirely new class of drugs for treating cancer, known as PARP inhibitors. PARP – or poly-ADP ribose polymerase, to give it its full name – is a protein found in all our cells, and...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...systems keeps the grass well-watered, with lower sunshine totals and a more equable temperature regime - milder winters and cooler summers. Fermanagh’s underground world Three hundered million years ago (the Carboniferous System), what was to become Ireland was to be found around the equator as part of a continent called Laurentia. The land was desert where wind-blown...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...system and Watt’s steam engine, but draws attention away from the progress of craft industries for many years beforehand. Eighteenth-century writers such as Joshua Gee, Adam Smith, and Adam Anderson recognised the earlier rise of manufactures (see A Gradual Revolution?). So how did such perceptions come to be marginalised? [Thomas Percival] Thomas Percival First...
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The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...system. There's a lot of er CCTV systems in the city centre already, inside shops, shopping malls, one or two nightclubs have little er systems on the doors. It seemed sensible to extend that for our use with relaying the pictures back to the police station, it could become part and parcel of our policing philosophy for the city centre. The traders in particular were very...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...system (freshwater or marine), and the term is also used to describe the process whereby terrestrial vegetation is affected by nutrient-enriched soil water. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Environment & Development...Eutrophication: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe the principal differences between...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...System’ heading, and then close down and restart Chrome. Alternatively, using a different browser should allow you to view the tutorials properly. ...Getting started with SPSS: 3 Using the Menu - Activity 2 Timing: 0 hours 20 minutes This activity follows the previous one by encouraging you to explore the menus available in the SPSS software. Each item has been...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...system in its widest sense – from care provided in your own home, to general practice, nursing home care and care in acute hospitals. The term has recently been coined in recognition that increasingly complex procedures are undertaken outside hospitals. Previously, when most complex healthcare was hospital based, the term hospital acquired infection was used. Welsh...
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An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...system that is able to hold a simple yet general text-based dialogue in English. This is an early example of ‘Symbolic’ AI. Around 1966, work on the first general-purpose mobile robot, Shakey began at MIT. The ALPAC (Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee) report was released in 1966, and its largely negative findings on progress within Machine Translation...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs