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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: 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

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

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

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 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

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: 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 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

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

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

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

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,

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