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Management in Chinese cultures
Money & Business

Management in Chinese cultures

...family and respect for authority. Does the enduring success of this approach have important lessons for us in the West, or is this management style increasingly redundant, as economies and companies internationalise and mature? This album visits several companies in Asia to explore the relationship between value systems and business management. This material forms part of...
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Introducing the Generation Study – Emily Darlington, MP
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing the Generation Study – Emily Darlington, MP

...families, this could mean a diagnosis before symptoms appear – and access to care that could make a life-changing difference. Emily Darlington, MP for Milton Keynes Central, introduces the study through this video, and encourages people to learn more about the project or to get involved. For further information, please visit www.generationstudy.co.uk. Transcript The...
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What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?

...family of bacteria that includes E. coli, Klebsiella and Enterobacter. In the new study, the two antibiotics most commonly given to the preterm infants were found to be vancomycin and gentamicin, which both had divergent effects on species richness. The researchers were able to predict the direction of this effect with high accuracy, based on the sequences of bacteria...
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Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020
Health, Sports & Psychology

Club, Country, Continent: Juggling fan identities at Euro 2020

...family ties. Club players and managers at the top end of the professional game are of many different nationalities across the world – and most of them will not be playing for the England team. The 2020/21 English Premier League champions Manchester City FC, for example, won the Premier League with a Spanish coach and a squad containing 12 different nationalities....
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...history with teachers marking their work as students learnt independently using books, their own research, YouTube, past papers and family or friends to support their learning. Teaching myself When we think of young people taking exams we usually think of them working with a teacher, structured lessons and being guided through the curriculum material in a weekly or...
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Legacy of the Romantics
History & The Arts

Legacy of the Romantics

...history of art. In sculpture there was a move to create imaginative pieces which would appeal to the emotions: Auguste Rodin tried to capture the inner lives of his subjects. In portraiture, painters began to explore the sitter’s feelings and psychological state, and pictures of animals were similarly probing. The Romantics revered children, because they were innocent...
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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...family members). Making music can also help people come to terms with the diagnosis and cope with their condition (Osman et al, 2014). In turn, music can provide comfort and help them maintain a sense of self as the condition progresses (Commission on Music and Dementia, 2018). However, since everyone is an individual, a ‘one fits all’ approach is not always...
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Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...family moved to Holborn, where Mary could hear the screams of animals being slaughtered in the candlelit abattoirs under Smithfield. As she suffered from poor health, she was sent away for long periods to recuperate. During one memorable journey she hid her money carefully in her stays for safety; nevertheless it was stolen from her! From the age of thirteen she had...
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