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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 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’

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

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 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

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,

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,

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

6 Oct 2020: Activity 1 - Crunching Numbers. First, let’s take a look at the figures for the ’Brexit’ Referendum of 23 June 2016. UK. voters voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union. The figures below are based on polling carried out by the polling

6 Oct 2020: Activity 1 - Time Dilation. In relativity different observers can (correctly) disagree on the time between events. Put another way; “moving clocks tick slow” - What does this mean? Take a spaceship flying to Alpha Centauri (the sun’s nearest

14 Oct 2020: Activity 2 – Zooming in: how people cross borders This activity invites you to critically reflect on the varied experiences of border crossing encountered by people around the world today. The activity also stimulates reflection about the social

6 Oct 2020: Activity 3 - The Lorentz Transformation. Lorentz transformations are the relativistic equivalent of the classical Galilean. transformation, where, due to time dilation and length contraction, there are added. complicating effects. We earlier said

19 Nov 2020: This video (again,this link will download it onto your computer) shows neuronal activity in the CA1area of the hippocampus as the mouse explores a circular arena (Ziv et al.

10 Sep 2020: Answer Sheet. Activity 1 – The Greek Sources. Task 1. There is lots to comment on here. In terms of strengths, you may mention e.g. that. Herodotus travelled widely, and so was able to access information from lots of different. sources. In terms

9 Sep 2020: Activity - Grave Reading. The narrator of The Catcher in the Rye has an attitude problem – that much is clear – but the. reason Holden Caulfield skims over his ‘lousy childhood’ is partly because he hopes to spare. his family: ‘my parents

14 Oct 2020: Activity 1 - How does the immune system work? The immune system did not evolve to stop humans carrying out organ transplants. Instead we evolved it over millions of years to stop us being invaded and attacked by a variety of prokaryotic and

19 Nov 2020: Activity 1: Microscopy Basics. In this first activity, you will learn the core principles of microscopy – mostimportantly, how an image is formed within a microscope. In the spirit of the titleof this resourse, there will be many illustrations and

6 Oct 2020: Activity 2 - Explaining the Results. How do we explain these results? The link between education and voting behaviour may be. influenced by a wide array of factors, and teasing out their relative significance is not easy. Age. One factor we cannot

10 Sep 2020: Activity Answers. Activity 1. Task. The sequence below is a stretch of mRNA encoding a human protein. “Translate” it. computationally into a sequence of amino acids, using EMBOSS Transeq, and find out what. this protein is using protein BLAST.

19 Nov 2020: Activity 2: Fluorescence Microscopy. If you search for “Light microscopy images” on the internet, some of the imagesyou will see will outline very specific features within cells, sometimes in beautifulbright colours (Figure 1), not really