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Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond
Health, Sports & Psychology

Racial inequities in health: The impact of COVID-19 in Wales and beyond

...C, Karani G, Evans MR, Longley P, Janiec J, Saltus R, Shankar AG. Ethnic variation in outcome of people hospitalised during the first COVID-19 epidemic wave in Wales (UK): an analysis of national surveillance data using Onomap, a name-based ethnicity classification tool. BMJ Open. 2021 Aug 18;11(8):e048335. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34408047/ Karl Murray (2020) The...
A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...C Clarke’s HAL 9000, the coolly, murderous villain of the science fiction classic ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. ‘Dave, I don’t know how else to put this, but it just happens to be an unalterable fact that I am incapable of being wrong.’ The capabilities of HAL were informed by Marvin Minsky, one of the attendees of the Dartmouth summer school; but even as the movie...
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...C C V psychology subtle meaning monkey yearning Answer These answers are for the author's own Southern England dialect of English. psychology s ai k o l o dg ee C V C V C V C V subtle s u t u1 l C V C V C meaning m ee n i ng2 C V C V C monkey m u n k ee ......
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...c 612 6 13 carbon-13 cap c 613 6 14 carbon-14 (unstable) cap c 614 7 14 nitrogen-14 cap n 714 8 16 oxygen-16 cap o 816 Only the isotopes of hydrogen have their own names. All the H isotopes have one proton but hydrogen has no neutrons, deuterium has one neutron and tritium has two neutrons. It is worth mentioning that protons and neutrons do themselves have an internal...
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Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...C. (2019) ‘Energy and environmental payback times for an NZEB retrofit’, Building and Environment, vol. 147, pp. 461–472 [Online]. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.10.047. Berg, F. and Fuglseth, M. S. (2018) ‘Life cycle assessment and historic buildings: energy efficiency refurbishment versus new construction in Norway Journal of Architectural Conservation’, 152-167...
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...interactions in low-temperature conditions (low, in this case means around 150 °C!). That was the beginning of the connection between the geology I was studying and astrobiology. Could the kind of modelling I was doing be applied to other planets, such as Mars? This might be a stupid question but when you say ’modelling’, what does that mean? There are very many different types of modelling but we generally use it to......
Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...C. (2000) ‘Whither the common good? A critique of home schooling’, Peabody Journal of Education, 75(1–2), pp. 207–32. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327930pje751&2_12 Lubienski, C. (2003) ‘A critical view of home education’, Evaluation & Research in Education, 17(2–3), pp. 167–78. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2000.968194...
Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...C. (2017) ‘Coaching as a route to resilience and wellbeing,’ International Journal of Stress Prevention and Wellbeing, 1(4). Makwana, N. (2019) ‘Disaster and its impact on mental health: A narrative review.’, Journal of family medicine and primary care, 8(10), pp. 3090–3095. Pfefferbaum, B. and North, C. (2020) ‘On death and dying’, New England Journal of...