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2 Oct 2020: Activity 4 – How can we better manage insulin resistance in patients? Managing T2DM in patients. The clinical management of T2DM revolves around lifestyle modifications, such as having a. healthy diet and regular exercise (exercise increases

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Maps and Power. We have seen how maps help us make sense of the world. We should reflect on the. importance of deciding to map something. But we must also consider how such maps were. and are produced. What became known as the Great

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Case Study - Madagascar. Madagascar has incredibly high biodiversity, and the number of species discovered on the. island is still rising. The link below is to an article in The Guardian newspaper which describes the continued.

2 Oct 2020: Activity – The Icon The following two texts explain how the Vespa is not simply a scooter, but has become an iconic symbol of Italian design and of the particular socio-economic climate post-WWII. Please read the two texts and then move on to the

10 Sep 2020: Activity 2 – The Persepolis Tribute Frieze. Introduction. Persepolis was the main capital of the Persian Empire, located in the south of modern-day. Iran close to Shiraz. The city was founded about 515 BC by Darius I, who constructed a. monumental

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Other Cartographical Traditions and Imaginations. This topic has largely (though not explicitly) considered maps that were produced in the. western world. The kinds of cartographic conventions that we have met here are not. necessarily

6 Oct 2020: Activity 3 - Looking Ahead. Politics in the UK is changing very rapidly, and it is difficult to predict what the political. landscape will look like a year from now, let along five, ten or twenty years in the future. However, we can try and think

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

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

5 Oct 2020: Activity - Heritability. Although the nature vs nurture debate is not a useful way of considering variation, we can. find out how much of the phenotypic variation in a trait is due to genetic causes and how. much of the variation in a trait is due