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A polyglot life
Languages

A polyglot life

...account of what it was like to be a polyglot before the internet took off...[Image by Tessakay from Pixabay] At school in the late 80s and the 90s in the UK, we didn’t have the Internet and liking language learning was frankly a little bit weird for most people. It was tough for most of my classmates to understand how or why I would like French class, let alone why I...
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Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...account practical issues (e.g. staffing) as well as emotional engagement (how does it feel to be in the natural environment) to gain a full understanding of the factors that affect continuous engagement. It aims to measure the experience and outcomes for residents, improve practices not only for The Park’s Trust and local care home, but also for other service providers...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...account which extended across the borders of his different worlds. In the 1970s and 1980s Sciascia, who like his friend Pasolini left the PCI and aligned with the small, contrarian Radical Party, came to greater prominence with his critique of power and corruption during the ‘years of lead’ when the Italian state was held ransom by terrorists of left and right, and...
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Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...account for wider society, i.e. the hours of productivity lost to illness and injury. Currently only 60% of adults meet the recommended guidelines for physical activity, and perhaps more concerningly is that only 18% of children meet their target levels. Further, we know that a physically active child is far more likely to become a physically active adult. The increased...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...account replete with a meme of a cat wearing a lab coat (@SeriousAcademic). Amongst the outrage, cats and memes was a debate on what new technologies mean for academic work and the university. For universities, digital technologies bring major changes to the way that teaching, research and communication can occur. Blogs, tweets, automatically generated citation measures,...
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...account by Rodolfo-Metalpa et al. Also the resistance has to do with the food that is provided to those organisms, for example, in the Baltic, which is naturally acidified, the mussels are resisting quite well to ocean acidification, but there is a lot of food, and experimentally we show that organisms provided with enough food can resist ocean acidification better than...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...Accountant, male, 40, Prestwick) But there were negative comments too: 'My friends seem to think it's a clever piece of eyewash to retain the capitalist system by getting the people on its side'. (Student, male, 22, Enfield) "A lot of blah" is the most frequent remark from the women in the factory. "Don't believe a word of it; we're 'eard these promises before". (Stores...
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What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

What Commercial Pilots can learn from Sports Psychology

...account an individual’s emotions. For example, everyone performs at their best when they are within their pre-performance anxiety zone; this allows for the differences that might vary on a sprinter’s performance compared to an endurance marathon runner. Similarly, a pilot might need to manage or ‘psych up – psych down’ their arousal levels for different stages...
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