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Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...circulation, starving the body’s tissues of oxygen and causing periodic ‘crises’, or episodes of intense pain. Women with the disease are also at increased risk for having premature or abnormally small children, as well as miscarriages and stillbirths. The only medication known to actually treat sickle-cell patients’ underlying disease is an anticancer drug called...
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Article 15 mins
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...et al., 2021). From this work, it seems that nuts and tree nuts are the most common cause of death in young adults while cow’s milk is the most common single cause of death in school-aged children. Data from the USA states that those at greatest risk of death are those under 35 years old. Adolescents and children carry a bigger risk as they depend upon others to keep...
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An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...et al., 1999) – and all share some basic features: they are ‘iterative’ in the sense that one or more activities are repeated; and they are ‘incremental’ in the sense that software development proceeds from an initial subset of the requirements to more and more complete subsets, until the whole system is addressed. Hence, an iterative and incremental process...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...circulate the contents of the vat (Figure 6b). If aerobic microbes are being cultured, then similar vats are used but air or oxygen is bubbled through. Figure 6 Fermentation reactors: schematic diagrams of (a) a stirred tank reactor and (b) an air-lift reactor; (c) in a winery in California. The growth of populations of microbes in the fermentation reactors (and in all...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...circulation, put dirty clothes away. Horrors! Martin Rowson: My father, who's a virologist, always used to say that penicillin was one of the worst things that happened culturally - not medically but culturally - because it made everybody terribly complacent. So when AIDS came along there was this terrible panic amongst the medical profession because they weren't used to...
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Article 30 mins
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...circulating in the blood. Working back through the albums, consider those individuals who have passed away and the reasons for their deaths, such as cancer or heart disease. All these visible and invisible characters of an individual and also their medical histories are governed by their genes and the environments in which they have lived. Genes are units of inheritance....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...doubling the size of the problem takes more than twice as long! Scale today and tomorrow How big is a library today? The HathiTrust is a collaboration of research libraries founded in 2008 containing over 17 million digitised items. It offers both reading access (allowable by copyright law – about 39% is in the public domain) and it also allows computational access to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...et al., quoted in Crossman and Crossman, 2011). Followership can be defined as a process in which subordinates recognise their responsibility to comply with the orders of leaders and take appropriate action consistent with the situation to carry out those orders to the best of their ability (Townsend and Gebhart, quoted in Crossman and Crossman, 2011). These definitions...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs