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What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can I do about my mental health when I don’t have the support I need?

...types of support are available locally. If you don’t feel that a particular GP you have seen in the past is the best person to talk to, ask the receptionist or the practice manager about other GPs in the practice who have a particular interest in helping patients with mental health issues. 2: Use online or telephone support services [Hands typing on a laptop keyboard]...
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60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...type of neural network that is based on simple models of how human vision works. A CNN learns an ensemble of simple pattern detectors called filters and then works out how to stitch these simple patterns together into complicated shapes. Finally, it learns which of these shapes are likely to indicate a particular type of object like a dog, a cat or a galaxy. In the human...
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Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...types. Broad spectrum antibiotics affect a wider range of bacteria. In Section 1 you learned about the different phases of bacterial growth. Most antibiotics target the exponential phase of growth. Can you suggest a reason for this? The exponential phase is when bacterial cells are at their most active, continually growing, dividing and forming new cells. The various...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exercising at 50
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercising at 50

...types of exercise are recommended to achieve these benefits [Exercising at 50] Cardiovascular exercise Cardiovascular exercise (rhythmical exercise that uses large body muscles and raises your heart rate) can be considered the most important form of exercise because it prevents most diseases that advancing age is a risk factor for; obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis,...
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Article 5 mins
What do we need to know about our memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we need to know about our memory?

...types of cognitive factors.When people talk about changes to their memory they often talk as if memory is one distinct thing and the only thing that influences our thinking skills. But memory is just one specific part of our broader thinking skills, influenced by and interacting with lots of other types of cognitive factors. We call this the ‘cognitive pyramid’. For...
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Article 15 mins
How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...type of environment and conditions it was experiencing when it formed. And often we can see this textural information by just looking at a fist-sized sample of a rock with a hand lens. Take these two different sedimentary rocks for example. Sedimentary rocks form through the deposition of sediment, eroded material that has been transported by water or wind. Based on...
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Article 10 mins
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...de Deletreo en Español] Fifth-grader Mariana Moya-Rubiano from Thomas Harrison Middle School, Harrisburg, Virginia, correctly spells her first word in the competition. 27 students competed %u2014 accents, tildes and all %u2014 in the bee this year. It is sixth grader Jybr Reynoso Hidrogos’ second time competing. He made the top five last year, but fell short of a...
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Article 5 mins
Tarddiad corau meibion yng Nghymru
History & The Arts

Tarddiad corau meibion yng Nghymru

...De Cymru, honnir mai i'w chwareli llechi y gall baswyr taranol gogledd Cymru ddiolch am eu cyseiniant cymaradwy. Mae'r cyhoedd, yn gywir ddigon, yn cysylltu'r côr meibion yng Nghymru a hanes diwydiannol Cymru. Gellir olrhain ei darddiad i ganol y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Ymhen fawr o dro, sicrhaodd ensembles a oedd yn cynnwys dynion yn unig, a ddechreuodd fel cangen...
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