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Pharmacotherapy while ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pharmacotherapy while ageing

...changes that might be already happening in our body polymorbidity and resulting polypharmacy may be something our body finds difficult to deal with as we age. [Senior woman holding some medicine ] The most important age-related changes for us to highlight today are decrease in basic metabolic rate and decrease in blood flow naturally occurring with ageing as well as...
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Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?
Languages

Why is 'modern language' taken to mean 'European language'?

...change. To begin with, the linguistic landscape in the UK has radically changed. According to the 2011 Census, after Polish the next five main spoken languages other than English are Asian: Panjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati and Arabic. This means that the majority of languages other than English spoken in the UK are no longer European languages but Asian languages. This is...
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Think like a scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Think like a scientist

...changed through time. Explaining scientific notation Find out how to write very big or very small numbers, and why it’s useful for communicating your results. Explaining negative numbers Negative numbers can seem hard to understand, but looking at different temperatures around the world shows that it's not that difficult. Why keep a journal Keeping a lab notebook is a...
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World in transition: Migration and Trade
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Migration and Trade

...change for a better world Micro-credit unions, how they work and how they are empowering women in Glasgow to start their own small businesses. Argentinas Poor: Surviving without money The poor of Argentina are trading goods and services in replace of currency in a global exchange network. Establishing migrant communities in London Why Greek and Ethiopian migrants came to...
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Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifiannell Carbon Y Brifysgol Agored

...changing world a'i nod yw mesur ôl troed carbon seiliedig ar ddefnydd personol rhywun sy'n byw yn y DU (os ydych chi'n byw y tu allan i'r DU, gweler adnoddau pellach). Mae'r gyfrifiannell hon yn dechrau â'r holl nwyon tŷ gwydr a gaiff eu hallyrru yn y broses o gyflenwi'r hyn y mae'r DU yn ei ddefnyddio, gan gynnwys yr allyriadau sydd wedi'u hymgorffori mewn mewnforion....
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Panic buying and how to stop it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic buying and how to stop it

...climate in which new norms can emerge if the old norms, relating to the availability of stock are perceived to be violated. An isolated local shortage problem or images of empty shelves on Facebook may have signalled such a violation in a supermarket. This also includes the possibility that fake images may have been used to maliciously seed panic buying. Social media...
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Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...change and efforts to distribute resources and represent the needs of the misrecognised beyond social media, this recognition alone is insufficient action for parity. Bourdieu offers a different definition of misrecognition. He calls it a failure to recognise how normatively defined social environments may be working against our interests. Twitter is a form of capitalism...
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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...climate model] In response to a listener question, Adam Rutherford asks various scientists - what is a 'model' in science? Andrew Ponson introduces us to the concept, Carole Haswell discusses how they work in astronomy, Paul Donald explains their use in conservation science and hydrologist Nick Reynard talks about using models to simulate extreme weather events such as...
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