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1 Jul 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. The Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) is proud of its elephants. At least five illustrations

26 Feb 2015: tests at enrolment, 28 and 36 weeks into pregnancy and then two days and six months after the birth of their child. ... Urinary or salivary tests suggested that ten women (4%) had smoked cigarettes whilst claiming vouchers.

19 May 2015: In a study published today in the journal Immunity, a collaboration of researchers from the UK and the USA, led by Professor Gillian Griffiths at the

2 Sep 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. ‘Bizarre’ is a kinder word than ‘ugly’ and may be a more accurate description when it comes to a

3 Jun 2015: They devised a series of experiments in which they placed stuffed currawongs in front of thornbill nests to test when thornbills use such trickery, followed by experiments testing how currawongs respond

30 Nov 2015: trauma. If you want to find out how you score on musical ability, preferences, and personality, you can take these tests atPhD candidate, psychology, University of Cambridge.

12 Mar 2015: Over the past 40 years the family has altered in ways that few people imagined back in the days of the Janet and John reading books in which mummy baked and

18 Dec 2015: Our models are not the exact truth, but in the absence of fossils these new methods can be used to test hypotheses for any palaeontological question, whether it is horses or

18 Jun 2015: As the tests use a highly sensitive method of detection of bacterial contamination, the numbers of MRSA bacteria present may be low.

9 Dec 2015: and erosion remodels our coastline – with large economic and social costs.

25 Sep 2015: So it also appears that higher education provided some protection from the economic downturn.

24 Nov 2015: economic gains.

23 Nov 2015: The researchers carried out a further test where 20 sex addicts and 20 matched healthy volunteers underwent brain scans while being shown a series of repeated images – an undressed woman, a

27 Feb 2015: Buddhism, in the shape of over 700 monasteries populated by some 80,000 lamas, had for centuries exerted an influence that extended deep into politics, economics and everyday life, rather in

29 Jun 2015: The researchers melt together precise amounts of each of the different elements to obtain a 5cm bar, then exhaustively test the bar’s mechanical properties and analyse its microscopic structure. ... test each reasonable mixture of components.

18 Nov 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. “It was already looking at me when I saw it. As it started moving down the hill towards me, I was

25 Mar 2015: Seven university research projects from across the UK will receive over £100 million of investment in 2016-17, to drive innovation and economic growth. ... UK universities tackle major national and global challenges, and make a significant contribution

28 May 2015: The tests due to be introduced in September are not what teachers need: they are labour-intensive and potentially stressful for four-year-olds. ... These tests seek to provide baseline assessments of a child’s ‘school readiness.’ However, the

23 Dec 2015: of Standards and Technology, to develop and test their material over the next 12 months.

3 Aug 2015: At the end of the four weeks, the researchers tested all participants’ episodic memory using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) PAL, as well as their level of enjoyment and ... the CANTAB PAL test relative to the control

17 Sep 2015: The lives of the 400,000 UK people with type 1 diabetes currently involves a relentless balancing act of controlling their blood glucose levels by finger-prick blood tests and taking

12 Nov 2015: Each scenario was linked to a series of economic and market confidence factors used to explore macroeconomic effects within a global economic model. ... Seeing climate change as a short-term financial risk as well as a long-term economic threat.

18 Sep 2015: Although a limited number of previous studies had suggested that this was not possible, the team’s lab-based tests discovered that in certain conditions, GLP-1 can bind to the ... Tests in mice have, however, shown that its levels vary in different

2 Jun 2015: CITI-SENSE provides a test-bed for both rolling out the new technologies that are coming online and for drawing on the ‘power of the Citizen’ to guide how society responds.”.

6 May 2015: Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary‐General for Policy of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, added: “this report reminds us of the vital role of forests in building food security.

3 Feb 2015: Two of the studentships in the 2016 cohort will be interdisciplinary and co-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and NERC.

14 Oct 2015: By the time it ended, it had become synonymous with child soldiers, human rights atrocities, landmine victims and blood diamond economics.

11 Feb 2015: Most of the genetic mutations that cause cancer result from environmental ‘damage’ (for example, through smoking or as a result of over-exposure to sunlight)

10 Jul 2015: In addition, after further work, it may be possible to use this technique to test how well new medicines perform at preventing the development of atherosclerosis.”.

18 Dec 2015: The best way to test how well stem cells would incorporate into the body is to transplant them into an early-stage embryo and see how they develop. ... The gold standard test, developed in Cambridge in the 1980s, involves putting the stem cells into a

21 May 2015: The study revealed that each cell in normal facial skin carries many thousands of mutations, mainly caused by exposure to sunlight. Around one in four skin

2 Nov 2015: What this data instead shows is that these GCSEs test different levels of skills, some of which may be more readily acquired in a lower number of contact hours and some

23 Jul 2015: To test whether these stress-hormone induced differences in social network positions affected who learned from whom, Boogert devised a food puzzle for the birds, and recorded exactly when each bird ... In the new test, the birds had to learn to flip the

30 Sep 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. Dr Zoe Jaques (Faculty of Education) is a lecturer in children’s literature. Her research spans

23 Apr 2015: dementia, and crucially, to test new drugs that halt disease progression.

4 Sep 2015: In a study published today in the open access International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, researchers also found that pupils doing an

14 Oct 2015: Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast. In 1996 a wildlife photographer working in a remote part of Tasmania noticed a ‘Tassie devil’ (the

29 Jun 2015: the planet as purely an economic issue about how we use these commodities is a limiting vision. ... Natural capital has features that most commodities around which we build economic modelling – such as infrastructure, or the products of industrial

20 Jul 2015: The ‘Cytosponge’ sits within a pill which, when swallowed, dissolves to reveal a sponge that scrapes off cells when withdrawn up the gullet. It allows doctors

12 Oct 2015: When the researchers presented the same task to a larger group of 40 healthy people, they found a continuum in task performance that correlated with the participants’ scores on tests of

22 Jul 2015: These observations have enabled us to test with unprecedented detail theories of galaxy formation in the early Universe.”. ... Finally to be able to test predictions and hypotheses on real data from ALMA is an exciting moment and opens up a new set of

23 Nov 2015: It had to remain stable without the benefit of spin (the barrel was not rifled) but in early tests the projectile was found to tumble uncontrollably. ... But from a purely engineering perspective I’m sorry that it was never test-fired (though it’s

21 Oct 2015: Those concerns are not confined to China and Brazil. Russia’s economy is contracting this year due to low energy prices; India’s economic recovery too has been slower than expected. ... Khaled Soufani, Senior Faculty in Management Practice

27 Nov 2015: A recent study by the Global Forest Expert Panel on Forests and Food Security, which I chaired, shows how forests and trees can complement agricultural production and give an economic boost

27 Aug 2015: Though it built what initially seemed to be an effective dictatorship, it was unable to cope with the economic incompetence of state socialism – symbolised for the outside world by the great ... Most remarkable of all, however, Meles' economic

29 Sep 2015: It strikes me as no coincidence that the biggest economic and political shift that modern Britain has ever seen came in the wake of the new practices of public relations. ... These 1930s innovations were prompted by many of the same types of challenges

11 Aug 2015: It would also be interesting to investigate whether jackdaws are similarly able to recognise individuals of other predator species – although this would be a lot harder to test.”.

3 Sep 2015: This association persisted even after we accounted for individual circumstances, such as socio-economic status and existing medical conditions.

22 Oct 2015: And such a threat to economic growth and social stability has to be removed.

7 May 2015: To test for social skills, the researchers reared juvenile fish over two months with either three or nine adult group members, and observed all social behaviours at key experimental points. ... Six month after this test phase, individual fish brains were