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5 Dec 2018: Activity 2 – Performing Apologies. Music is often thought of as something you hear, but in actuality there are many different ways we experience music. You can think of this in terms of music having many different layers. In an audio recording,

15 Sep 2017: Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Parkinson’s Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that, unlike Alzheimer’s disease and dementia which we have discussed in previous activities, is mainly a movement disorder. The most common and

17 Aug 2018: In this activity we will explore the Parthenon as a political monument. Athens in the Persian War. Throughout the early fifth century, Athens along with other parts of Greece had been at war. against the might of the Persian Empire. The Persians had

5 Feb 2019: In the future, it is expected that AI will become fully capable in producing cultural artefacts. But. how can AI be ‘creative’? Although AI technology has generated many new ideas in design, pharmaceuticals and various. types of computer art,

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - Rebellion or Revolution? Haitian Declaration of Independence Read a translation of the text of Haiti’s declaration of independence from 1804: http://today.duke.edu/showcase/haitideclaration/declarationstext.html Questions to think

17 Aug 2018: In this activity we will explore the Parthenon in Athens. The Parthenon, the Acropolis, and Athens. The Parthenon was built between 447–438 B.C. on the Acropolis hill in Athens. The word. ‘Acropolis’ comes from two Ancient Greek words, and

1 Aug 2017: Activity 4 : Bandes dessinées after 1990. Joann Sfar, Le Chat du rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat), Dargaud, 2002-15:. Sfar was born into a Jewish family of North Africa. He devoted a series to describing the life of a. rabbi, his daughter and their cat in

24 Apr 2019: Before we learn anything about how babies think,. let’s discuss how psychologists can even communicate. with infants. Imagine you want to test if a. three-month old baby understands the concept of. maths. You design a neat experiment to test this

18 Feb 2019: Activity 3 –. It’s important to note that there are vast differences in how empathic people are. Sometimes, people aren’t able to be empathic, or are less empathic than others. One barrier to empathy is in-group vs. out-group bias, which has

29 Dec 2018: Activity 3. This is an exercise on syntax. In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that. govern the structure of sentences in a given language. This could include word order and the. relationship of the parts (phrases)

10 Sep 2020: Making Molecules. If we start off by thinking about making dihydrogen we know that, from much earlier in. school, each hydrogen atom has one electron and each would like two, giving a full first. shell. From our GCSE way of thinking of this we would

2 Nov 2020: Question 1. Using the two case studies presented above, or your own examples, consider how autonomy and. informed consent could have changed the way these patients were treated. Possible Answer. Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Fundamentally a

6 Oct 2020: Worked Examples. Time Dilation. Imagine we had a spaceship which could instantaneously accelerate to whatever speed we. wanted (below the speed of light). Suppose we also found a star 10 000 light years (lyr) away which we wanted to visit. We decide

26 Mar 2019: Even in ancient times, blood was seen as some sort of “life force”, something that almost every. living creature has and cannot live without. For over a thousand years until only a few centuries. ago, the main way to treat diseases was

15 Nov 2018: Activity 4: Summary Questions Answers. Task. 1. What different theories of the body existed in early modern Europe? In the early modern period, many people continued to believe in the humoral. theory of the body, defined by the ancient physician

29 Mar 2018: In this activity, we will explore the structure of the human brain and what is unique about it when compared to other primates. Lobes. The brain consists of different areas: the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe, the brain

11 Feb 2021: Activity Sheet no. 2 – “A Translator is always a beginner” There are always tricky words, phrases, and sentences in a translation. At the start of a translation, whether just beginning, like you, or more experienced, like me, exactly where the

10 Sep 2020: Activity 1 – Greek sources and the Persian Empire. When historians begin to examine a new society, the starting point is usually a contemporary. (or near-contemporary), written, narrative source. By a ‘contemporary, written, narrative. source’

17 Aug 2018: In this activity we will explore the Parthenon as a religious monument. Athena Parthenos. Inside the ‘naos’ of the Parthenon, there was in antiquity a giant chryselephantine statue of the. goddess Athena Parthenos: a statue made out of gold and

24 Oct 2019: What are the basic principles of vaccinology? What are the different kinds of. vaccines? Vaccines work by eliciting long-lasting immunity – so to understand vaccines, you must have. a basic understanding of immunology. The immune system is divided

2 Oct 2020: Activity – Around Tuscany on an Old Vespa Taking an impromptu and unplanned field trip in Italy with a friend can be really fun: good food, beautiful scenery, sun-soaked beaches, hills and squares and, of course… a Vespa! In this blog entry, a

10 Apr 2019: Task. 1. Watch this brief video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH9dAbPOR6M. 2. Is the mask ever hollow/concave? Or does it appear as a normal convex face? 3. Show this to a friend or family member: do they agree with you or not? What do they see?

29 Jan 2019: Task Answers. 1. Apart from dental-care products, which other sectors might benefit from using the. principle of authority to try and persuade people to buy their products? Answer: medicine, diet supplements, weight-loss products, baby products. 2.

23 Jan 2023: LICENCE CONDITIONS POLICY FRAMEWORK (2021). UNDERSTANDING LIFELICENCES. Prisoners given mandatory life sentences are subjected to two distinct but overlapping forms ofpunishment: as prisoners, they experience the ‘punishment part’ of a life

14 Nov 2018: Dissection of human bodies appears to have begun at the end of the thirteenth century. Initially, anatomy was used to illustrate the ideas of ancient writers – the act of dissecting the body was thought to demonstrate the accuracy of their ideas.

1 Nov 2018: Task 1-Timeline of events. Activity 1: Answers. Years. 1347. People and events. The Black Death. Descriptions of people and events. Many physicians blamed the stars and planets for this occur-rence. The result of many different factors including a

14 Nov 2018: Many people assume that the human body today is essentially the same as it was in the past. Is this true, though? In this activity we will look at what factors can influence the way we use our bodies and try to think about how our ideas about the

26 Mar 2019: You were introduced in the previous activity to the idea of transfusion, the taking of blood from. one person to another, that we might call a liquid transplant. At the same time, we have more in. our bodies than just blood, and the idea of swapping

8 Dec 2015: Text 3: The Verse Account. Introduction. The Verse Account is another Babylonian document which describes the reign of Nabonidus. Although written in the same language as the Nabonidus Chronicle, it is very different in style. The identity of the

14 Oct 2020: Activity 2 – The Meissner Effect and BCS Theory. 2 The Meissner Effect. In 1933 it was found that not only do. superconductors show zero electrical resistance,. but they also expel any magnetic field from their. interiors below a critical field

14 Oct 2020: Activity 3 - Why is the Major Histocompatibility Complex so important? We saw in resource 2 that fetal trophoblast cells are perilously exposed to the maternal blood and immune system. So why are they not attacked as a foreign invader? Half of the

14 Oct 2020: Solutions to Exercises. Exercise 1: Elemental lead (Pb) has a superconducting transition at 7.2 K. A cuboid sample. of Pb has dimensions (l w h) of (4 0.5 0.5) mm. At 7.5 K the voltage across two contacts. (V+ and V-) was measured to be 3.52 nV when

10 Nov 2015: Key Concepts Clarkson Thesis: The argument put forward by English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) in his 1808 two-volume work on the history of the anti-slavery movement. Clarkson believed that abolition was a part of a progressive,

23 Jan 2017: What Causes Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome? The canine skull is formed by the fusion of many different bony components, which meet at. boundaries called ‘suture lines’. In the brachycephalic breeds a genetic mutation results in.

15 Nov 2018: A blazon is a poetic device in which the speaker of the poem catalogues each part of a woman’s body. Typically, these body parts are compared to aspects of the natural world: teeth are compared to pearls, blonde hair to gold, etc. This device

10 Sep 2020: X Chromosome Inactivation. Recap: sex chromosomes. Somatic human cells have 46 chromosomes: 22 pairs of autosomes and two sex. chromosomes (Figure 1). The pairs of autosomes contain copies of the same genes that. may be identical or very similar. In

9 Sep 2020: Activity - First Things First. Great Expectations is Dickens’s thirteenth novel. It is also, critics have liked to think, one of. his most personal tales, haunted by remembered geographies and early traumas. What. characters inherit, and what they

10 Sep 2020: Inheritance. Inheritance through the cell cycle. The cell cycle poses a serious challenge to preservation of this fine-tuned chromatin state. Histones and all the other chromatin-binding proteins have to be removed to allow genome. replication, and

15 Sep 2017: What Causes Neurodegeneration? The underlying cause of most neurodegenerative diseases is not fully understood. Only around 5% of cases are a result of genetic mutation (i.e. ‘inherited’) therefore the remaining 95% occur randomly (these are

14 Feb 2019: Activity 2. Aim: identify food symbolism in an example from the visual arts. Many subgenres of children’s literature place a high level of importance on visual images. such as illustrations, book covers and endpapers; therefore the study of

14 Feb 2019: Activity 3. Aim: carry out a close comparative reading of food details/scenes from sources across a. broad historical range. This activity looks at the role played by the representation of the feast. Feasts in children’s. literature – and in

14 Oct 2020: Activity 1 – Zooming out: nation-states and their borders Political borders separate the territory of one state from the territory of another. There are 194 nation-states in the world today, and there are more than 300 land borders between them,

15 Sep 2017: Alzheimer’s Disease (and other Dementias). Important Note on Dementia:. Dementia is a term typically used to describe a group of symptoms which include memory loss, difficulty problem-solving or thinking clearly and problems with language. As we

28 May 2019: Resource 1. 1a – What Do We Really Mean by Rationality? The world that we live in is a complex one, and so economists tasked with trying to model the economic interactions within it face a significant challenge. In order to help make sense of it

10 Sep 2020: Mechanisms of Epigenetics. Recap: chromatin structure. Each somatic human cell contains two meters of DNA, which has to be efficiently packaged. into nuclei 10-20 μm in diameter. If we were to scale the nucleus up to the size of a tennis. ball,

15 Sep 2017: Atatürk and the Kemalist Revolution At the turn of the 19th/20th century, the 500-year old Ottoman Empire was widely derided as the ‘sick man of Europe’. Its emergence from the First World War on the losing side signalled the final demise of

14 Oct 2020: Activity 4 - How might the mammalian fetus avoid immune attack? If you have read the other three resources for this topic, you will now be aware of the potential problem facing the embryo/fetus. Its trophoblast cells, presumably bearing

29 Dec 2018: Activity 2. This is an exercise on morphology. What is morphology? Morphology is the study of words. More. specifically, it is the study of the different components of words, and the structural framework. within which these components are arranged

14 Oct 2020: Activity 3 – High Temperature Superconductors and Quantum. Materials Research. 3 High Temperature Superconductivity: Superconductors above 30 K. BCS theory set a limit on the critical temperature that could be achieved by any. superconductor at 30

29 Jan 2019: Weapon 1: Authority. The first tool which can be used to persuade people is authority. We naturally feel compelled to. listen and follow orders from those in a position of power. There are many reasons for this – for. example, not listening to