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

9 Sep 2021: Additional resources. Free-download software to type hieroglyphs (hyperlink):. https://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/. Free-download transliteration font (hyperlink):.

6 Dec 2023: Climate Change: Science and Society. Perspectives from the polar regions. Worksheet. Activity 1. You are acting on behalf of an NGO operating in Scandinavia which works with local Sámi communities. A new mine permit has just been approved by the

24 Aug 2023: Here are some activities based on the video lecture for you to have a go at. I particularly encourage you to write some of your own code; this is the best way to learn new things and discover new interests! 1. Have a browse of this site containing

24 Aug 2023: In this exercise, you will test the vigour of mantle convection under different planetary conditions using a simple model. Load this website and answer the following questions:. Source:

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?

20 Jun 2023: At the current stage, you have known three key components in social anthropological study: doing fieldwork, producing theory, and writing ethnography. For better understanding of each aspect, it is imperative to have long-term training, learn

23 Jan 2023: READING UNCERTAINGENDERS. Read the text below and answer the following questions. Feel free to use any physical or online resources that you find useful to help answerthese questions. Do you recognise this text? Who wrote it?Do you recognise this

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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?

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.

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

8 Dec 2015: Activity Four: The Book of Daniel, Chapter 5. Introduction. The Book of Daniel is part of the Old Testament of the Bible. The Old Testament contains an awful lot of useful historical information because Judea was part of the Babylonian and then the

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

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

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

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,

10 Nov 2015: Activity 1 - The Simple Past Tense Now that you are familiar with the plot of Rotkäppchen, watch this video on YouTube, it was made in a primary school, the children painted pictures and read the story out loud:

14 Feb 2019: Activity 1. Aim: reflect critically on your own childhood reading. This activity introduces some of the key debates in children’s literature criticism, including. the difficulties associated with defining children’s literature and the problems

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

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

8 Dec 2015: Activity One: The Nabonidus Chronicle. Introduction. The Nabonidus Chronicle is a cuneiform tablet currently housed in the British Museum. It is part of a series of chronicles written on clay tablets by the Babylonian priesthood designed to keep 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: Fethullah Gülen and his Followers Fethullah Gülen is a US-based Turkish imam who leads a transnational religious community known in Turkey as Hizmet (lit: ‘service’), but referred to internationally as the Gülen Movement (GM). The GM emerged