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Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...energy, few natural products are synthesised without some purpose in the life of the producer...Drug development process: combating pain: 2.1 Understanding pain - Pain has traditionally been perceived as a subjective experience and is usually indicative of some underlying condition, injury or trauma. It is an experience that is crucial for survival since it induces the...
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...Solar panels is a gadget, so that can help or efficiency can help, all these little things build up which is wonderful. So a lot of it is education, but then education of the masses is fighting against the corporate big cheeses essentially, so big companies that rely on fossil fuels, the reality is that they are very much about the bottom line. They are not going to be...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...energy going in’ over ‘energy that is expended’ in their body, and this is the position which is highlighted in policy documents, for example, by the Department of Health: Overweight and obesity are a direct consequence of eating and drinking more calories and using up too few. We need to be honest with ourselves and recognise that we need to make some changes to...
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...energy-saving measures in support of the environment. Social consumption is highest among pensioners. Neighbourhood participation is more closely related to age, increasing noticeably among people aged 50 and above. Differences in participation relating to ethnicity are small. English respondents tend to have the lowest neighbouring scores. Welsh respondents average the...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...energy, maintenance, repair and replacement) and, ultimately, decommissioning costs are included. Requirements Generally speaking, a requirement identifies an expression of need, demand or obligation. An essential factor to ensure the quality of any project or any deliverable or product is to get the requirements for it right. If the requirements are not clearly and...
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...energy start to slip. As you will have noticed from the six aspects of the definition, leadership is not a solitary pursuit, but involves people supporting one another to generate the agency to lead. This activity will begin to explore that process. Activity 1 The agency to lead Timing: Allow around 15 minutes Watch the following interview clip with Jason Sinclair, where...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...energy (electricity and gas)?’, I seem to run into all four of the information constraints March refers to, just because I make a wide range of choices in this area. I have many electrical appliances (fridge, cooker, television, etc.), and both electric and gas heating, so deciding what and how to change, to reduce my overall use of energy, is a fairly complex...
An introduction to interaction design
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to interaction design

...energy we consume, how well we sleep at night, and so on. All these products have made more visible, and therefore allowed us to better manage, aspects of our life that might otherwise escape our attention even though they are important for our well-being. Importantly, because they blend in with the clothes we wear or the objects we use daily, these technologies have...