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The world around us - Perfume
Health, Sports & Psychology

The world around us - Perfume

...central Asia secretes a viscous brown liquid from a gland in its abdomen, which contains a small amount of the ketone muskone, a ring-like molecule that resembles civetone and creates the odour we know as musk. Both of these chemicals are nowadays produced synthetically. Find out more You can learn how the senses interact with the environment in The Open University course...
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Supply chains: the supermarket
Science, Maths & Technology

Supply chains: the supermarket

...chain in Thailand Managing Thai Tesco How stock is managed amongst different Tesco stores, and how this affects the local competition Where do old rubber trees go? One company's waste is another's resource. A Thai company tranforms its leftovers into luxury products for Tesco UK Tesco comes to Hungary Developing hypermarkets in the transition economies of Central Europe....
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...central to devising the plan in Looe. The plan has now expanded to input by Cornwall Council and Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and focuses on protection measures for the housing and infrastructure in the town as well as incorporating economic regeneration plans (LFPP, 2019). The central part of the plan includes physical barriers such as tidal...
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Supporting children’s learning in the early years
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in the early years

...Sinead Donnelly, a primary one teacher in Northern Ireland, talks about the fantastic possibilities available when using audio/visual equipment and computers as a learning aid. Creativity and early years Using interviews and a live recording of a learning environment, creativity is defined and discussed as both a central aspect of the curriculum and a developmental tool....
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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...Central and South East Asia, and was then taken up by Turks, Mongols and, in fact, all Muslim rulers of the region as the administrative language of their realms. Latin and Persian thrived as transnational languages for well over a millennium after their native speakers had lost military-political and socio-economic clout. In the end, Latin as a transnational language...
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The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...central to the quality of their healthcare experience. The quality of these relationships is singled out in patient satisfaction surveys as being of particular importance. To engage successfully with their patients, nurses need to listen carefully, and to get to know their patients as people. Getting to know the person behind the patient is the raison d'être of...
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China and the internet
Digital & Computing

China and the internet

...central scar of his life the Great Cultural Revolution. They don’t want anything like that to happen again, and they know that the internet can breed that sort of sudden spiralling belief system, so they put steps in to make it harder for that to happen but it’s not, I don’t think it’s terribly effective. I mean, you know, if you want to find something out about...
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A reader's guide to Holes
History & The Arts

A reader's guide to Holes

...central figure, Stanley Yelnats, is an unlikely hero: an overweight boy who is subjected to bullying. His family has a history of ill-fortune, because of a curse placed on his ‘no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather’. [Turtles at Caddo, the only natural lake in Texas] Turtles at Caddo, the only natural lake in Texas [Image:Caren's Photo Trip by...
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