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How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...central nervous system are the most common cancers. Every year, in the USA alone, approximately 1 in 285 children – nearly 16,000 in total – will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday, and more than a quarter of them will have been diagnosed with a brain tumour. In most childhood brain tumours, a complete removal improves the overall survival. Olson has...
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Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...central importance is the access to land, land on where we can live and where we can produce our food. Land is clearly threatened by sea level rise on the long term, so coastal communities are threatened in an exceeding way through the slow increase of sea level. RH: Do we know more about the Arctic and Antarctic than we did before? TS: Yes, for the first time in the past...
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Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...central arrow was pointing right. I had to block out my impulse and heed the rule instead. Another example of cognitive conflict is a test in which the names of colours are written in different colours (“blue” written in red, for example). The aim is to say which colour each word is written in, but this is tricky, because we read the word much quicker than we process...
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Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...centrality of the rent strikes and the struggle over housing (e.g. Damer LR, E.i, Melling LR, E .ii see section 6) which challenged the rights of property owners while simultaneously pressurising the state to intervene in the housing market. Rather than foregrounding the revolutionary/Bolshevik/Communist elements within the working class, this position also emphasises the...
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Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...central to their gender development. They focus on the ways in which children attend to and then process and organise this information, and have in common a justifiable emphasis on the active role of children in shaping their own development; they are not simply passive respondents to stereotyped information that is imposed upon them. This notion of the child as active...
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People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...central tendency. So then of course we talk about means or medians and we can also look at how the population is dispersed and there we might be looking at the standard deviation of the population. Sorry – need to concentrate on my driving for a moment! Tony Nixon: We’re going down a steep slope here and we’re about to tip up on our sides so – Paul Herriotts:...
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Diversity in religion: Islam
History & The Arts

Diversity in religion: Islam

...central feature has been the ideal of ‘engaging in lawful behaviour’. This means acting in religiously-approved ways in all areas of life, not just as regards worship but also as regards to diet, trade and sexual relationships (among other things). This is a good example of the way that religions can encompass all aspects of culture and behaviour. Religions are also...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...central in admissions reform. The Office for Students (UK) requires universities to make students with a mental health condition a top priority, suggesting they make changes throughout the whole curriculum starting with induction, as well as support services (Office for Students, 2020)...Supporting university students with a mental health condition: Conclusion -...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs