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Bringing life back to Kenya’s grasslands

Futurum

This style of agriculture, though it can lead to significant short-term productivity increases, can exacerbate degradation when soil nutrients are depleted and the biology of the soil is affected by the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. “As MONOCULTURE – a crop system that involves only a single species in a field at a time.

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What causes problems with the lower urinary tract?

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The two main challenges of having a collaboration across the US are logistics and expense. Pathway from school to gynaecology • During high school and post-16-years, study biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics. – PERSEVERENCE is very important to achieve your goals. How is Cindy studying LUTD?

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How does the Southern Ocean help protect our planet?

Futurum

Despite its global importance, the Southern Ocean is the least studied ocean in the world, largely due to the logistical and practical challenges of working in such an isolated, hostile environment. Chemistry, biology, physics, geology and statistics could all prove very useful. What is the team hoping to discover?

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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The lack of phone signal hampered the coordination of logistics and provision of materials from the nearest town, while the lack of road access to the community centre meant all tools and materials had to be carried to Thastayoc from the nearest road. WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR, AND WHAT ARE YOUR AMBITIONS FOR FUTURE?

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How does pre-birth milk expression help with breastfeeding?

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AME seems to be a catalyst to get people thinking through the mechanics and logistics of breastfeeding,” says Jill. Pathway from school to nursing science • To become a nurse scientist, study science subjects such as biology, chemistry and anatomy while at school and at post- 16. What are your proudest career achievements so far?

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

And I think it’s fair to say that this wasn’t easy to achieve—and in the end required a pretty deep dive into the technology of imaging and printing (as I’ll describe more in a later section). But there’s a standard way to achieve the appearance of gray, by changing the local density of black and white. The Technology of Images.

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