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29 Mar 2018: You were introduced in the previous activity to the basic structure of neurons and synapses. In this activity we will explore how neurons communicate with each other to send messages in the brain. Neurons are a cell type in the brain that are

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

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

14 Mar 2021: Part 4: Large scale energy storage solutions Improving energy storage on the electric grid (the grid refers to the infrastructure which provides electricity to homes in the UK) is key to improving the use of renewable energies. Figure 1 shows some

14 Mar 2021: Part 3: How do we evaluate battery performance? By using some of the electrochemical reaction tools outlined in Part 2: “How do we measure electrochemical reactions” we can gather key performance parameters of batteries and other electrochemical

14 Mar 2021: Part 2: How do we measure electrochemical reactions? Potentiostat A typical tool which scientists use for measuring electrochemical reactions is called a potentiostat. This tool allows you to change the voltage of your experiment while measuring the

14 Mar 2021: Part 1: Batteries What is a battery? A battery is an electrochemical energy storage device. There are many types of batteries since the conception in the 1800s and they fall into two categories; primary which are single use and secondary which can

2 Mar 2021: Additional resources. Free-download software to type hieroglyphs:. https://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/. Free-download transliteration font:.

9 Sep 2021: Worksheet – Test your Egyptian Knowledge. Transliterate and translate the following sentences from Egyptian, using the. videos and information pack to help you. 1. Transliteration:. (insert answer here). Translation:. (insert answer here). 2.

14 Apr 2021: Worksheet 2: The Bauhaus. Founded in 1919, the design philosophy manifested at the Bauhaus — in full, the. Staatliches Bauhaus — had been widely conceived as one of the greatest forces that. shape the twentieth century modern design. From its

14 Apr 2021: Worksheet 1: Renaissance Architecture. Dated between 1400 and 1600, the Renaissance was a period that marked the. transition from the Middle Ages to what would become modernity. It was during this time. that major innovations in culture, art and

14 Jan 2021: Worksheet - Test your Egyptian knowledge. Transliterate and translate the following sentences from Egyptian, using the videos and information pack to help you:. 1. Transliteration. Translation. 2. Transliteration. Translation. 3. Transliteration.

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

15 Sep 2017: Why is the Number of Cases on the Rise? Currently there are over 7.4 billion people in the world. Over the time it takes you to read this resource there will have been at least another 1000 people added to the total world population. The most

16 Nov 2020: Which muscles insert at 1 – 10? What are their functions?

5 Feb 2019: What is the Turing Test? In order to assess whether or not the intelligence of a computer is distinguishable from a human,. English computer scientist Alan Turing introduced a test in 1950; he asked whether someone. could distinguish if they are

23 Jan 2017: What is the Definition of Brachycephaly? All these dogs are by definition brachycephalic- with a shortened muzzle where the Skull width = 80% (or more) of length. However not all breeds are affected to the same extent. These dogs have different skull

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

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.

24 Oct 2019: What are the benefits of vaccines? What are the risks? How do you evaluate a. vaccine and decide who should get it and when? Although 100% vaccination coverage would provide the best protection against disease,. vaccines are still effective when a

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

29 Jan 2019: Weapon 3: Liking. “People prefer to say ‘yes’ to those they know and like” (Cialdini, 1984). Do you always buy the same cereal? Or do you like to try new things every time you go to the. supermarket? Most people prefer to stick to the things

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

9 Mar 2016: Video Two: Exploration Nettleship v Weston was a case within the tort of negligence. A man was injured while giving informal driving lessons to a friend because that friend crashed the car into a lamppost. The core question was whether the friend, a

9 Mar 2016: Video Three Exploration So, you’ve read Nettleship v Weston and watched the first two videos, now we have the chance to think about some tangents from the main issues in the case, which is what this video will briefly do. 1. What did you think

3 Mar 2016: Video 1: Exploration Introduction: When should a person who causes harm have to pay you for that harm? Imagine that someone bumps into you, causing you to drop the shopping you are carrying, cracking eggs and breaking some bottles? While in practice

26 Nov 2018: Think about all the different things happening in the world right now; politicians debating,. engineers building, information being shared, banking, new inventions, farming, medicine, artists. creating, and people teaching others, the list is

29 Oct 2015: The Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules. These rules give the absolute configuration, R- and S- for each chiral center within a. compound. The chiral centers are names either R- or S-. To name a chiral center using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules:. 1) Identify a

15 Sep 2017: The Alevis The Alevis are the largest non-Sunni religious group in Turkey. Their numbers are impossible to ascertain with any accuracy, as they are not recognised in official census data, but it can be assumed that there are between 15-20 million

15 Sep 2017: The AKP and the Emergence of Political Islam The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) swept to power in Turkey in a landslide election victory in 2002. They have remained in office ever since, under the leadership of the

29 Jan 2019: That’s why using ‘plain Janes’ in adverts (especially for household cleaning items), rather than. celebrities, works so well. We’re not likely to identify with a celebrity (I totally have the same. problems as Angelina Jolie…not), but we

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

24 Apr 2019: Task Answers. 1. Watch this short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jW668F7HdA. The baby in the video is given two tasks – firstly, her mum shows her a toy and then hides it. under a blanket. The baby lifts the blanket and finds the toy. How

24 Apr 2019: Task Answers. 1. Psychologists measure infants’ gaze to gather evidence for their studies. Come up. with a method which could be used to measure how long an infant looks at. something (which equipment would you need? Outline all the steps you would

29 Jan 2019: Task Answers. 1. How could the social validation principle be used to persuade young people to. reduce the amount of alcohol they are drinking? Answer: The principle of social validation suggests that people tend to do what others. are doing.

24 Apr 2019: Task Answers. 1. Do you think that having a theory of mind is important? Why? List some of the. situations in which you might have to use your theory of mind. Being able to understand what another person is thinking/feeling is extremely important in.

29 Jan 2019: Task Answers. 1. Conduct your own experiment! Pick 5 brands of the same product (e.g. 5 different. brands of cereals). Ask your friends and family how much they like each product. (e.g. let them rate products on a scale from 1-10). Then ask them to

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.

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?

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

10 Apr 2019: Task. 1- Observe Figure 2 below: are the lines straight? 2- Now take a ruler or a set square and test whether you were right! Fibonacci (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Café_wall.svg), „Café wall“,

1 Nov 2018: Task 1 Answers. 1. What is the earliest date layer 8 could have been formed? 2nd. century AD. 2. Which layers were formed during the Roman period? (The Roman period. began in Britain in the mid-1st. century AD). 8, 7, 6 and 5. Layer 8 contains Roman

18 May 2023: Task 1. 1.1 What is the concept of infrastructure resilience? 1.2 What are the four attributes of infrastructure resilience? 1.3 What is the key difference between risk-oriented and resilience-oriented mindsets of. infrastructure safety management?

24 Apr 2019: Some have put forward even braver hypotheses – infants as young as 15-months might be able to pass. the false belief task, based on their gaze. A version of the Sally-Anne task was developed for infants –. someone looked at a toy being put into

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

11 Sep 2020: Solutions. Question 1:. Let’s designate within the hose to be location 1 and the hose nozzle to be location 2. We are given the following values in the question:. 𝑉1 = 1 m/s. 𝑃1 = 350,000 Pa. 𝜌 = 997 kg/m3. 𝑔 = 9.81 m/s2. 𝑃2 =

29 Mar 2018: So, now that you have explored the structure and basic workings of the brain, we will begin to explore how this results in one of the greatest complexities of the brain – memory. Memory. The exact nature in which we are able to recall a childhood

7 Apr 2021: Resource Activity 3. Teaser: Can we capture CO2 instead of emitting it into the atmosphere? Carbon capture. Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) increase global temperatures and result in climate change. The most significant GHG is CO2 because. (i)

7 Apr 2021: Resource Activity 2. Teaser: Renewables can generate energy in an intermittent manner, but we use energy constantly. How to match the energy demand with the available resources? Intermittent power supply and energy storage. The power supply from

7 Apr 2021: Resource Activity 1. Teaser: Let’s discuss renewable energy and the three main technologies, which generate the biggest. share of renewable energy. Renewable energy. Renewable energy includes:. HYDROPOWER – extracting kinetic or potential energy