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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...simple scratch can turn into a venous leg ulcer. A similar thing can happen if your arteries don’t deliver enough blood to your hands or feet. For people with conditions that mean they spend most or all of their time in bed or a wheelchair, pressure ulcers are common. For others, the problem is poor nutrition, old age, or any of a number of variables that suppress the...
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Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...simple. New media: Is there a future for wildlife television? I think the potential of wildlife programming is still huge and I think there was a fear that television as such would die and there’d be so much competition from other media and from websites and on people’s smart phones, but I think the evidence, perhaps, is that people don’t want to exclude one thing....
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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...simple system to collect news of interesting and relevant contemporary developments in science? Could each ‘story’ be linked to a scheme of work? What other opportunities exist for promoting the global dimension in science, for example, through display or student projects? As well as using resources like those in Section 3 ‘In the classroom’, you could try:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...simple experiment devised by Franco Fabbro and his colleagues at the University of Trieste in Italy. Fabbro asked 24 students to recite the days of the week and the months of the year in reverse order while listening to themselves through headphones. First they heard themselves with no delay. They then repeated the exercise with delayed feedback of 150, 200 and 250...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...Simple cause and effect can no longer be relied upon as a predictive guide for consumers or markets. Established communication models, particularly those which picture communication as a magic bullet fired at the customer's mind to ensure compliance with marketing plans, are similarly inadequate. Instead, both academics and practitioners are embracing models which...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...simple as simply increasing endorphins, there might be other things such as dopamine, which is more important and linked to mood states and reduction in depression. So several ways, several bio-physical ways in which exercise might improve mental health. Physical activity and mental health: why does it work? How do your explanations compare with those outlined in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...simple amino group through complex hetero-cycles. The tests vindicated the hypothesis completely: none of the compounds showed any alpha2 activity but all had some degree of alpha1 affinity. The results are shown in Table 2. The figures in the first column are related to the concentrations of the compounds necessary to displace a radioactive ligand from the alpha1...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...simple definition of dictatorship is that power is vested in one person who decides how a country is run. The will of the people is ignored when you have a dictator, whereas a democratic society is based on the principle that a system is in place to elect individuals to represent you in a parliament. The voting system in the UK allows every UK citizen who is over the age...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs