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Using big datasets to find out what affects children’s quality of life

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Economics — a branch of social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services, as well as a huge variety of other complex issues of vital concern to society. This involves communicating the research findings to policymakers who can then make policy decisions informed by these results.

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What Image Comes to Your Mind When You Think of a “Doctor”?

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Such implicit bias can negatively impact students’ self-efficacy and achievement, can marginalize students, and create a sense that they “don’t belong” or cannot be successful in STEM. The literature reports connections among self-efficacy, stereotype threat, and achievement worth further exploration and continued research (Sunny et al.,

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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. PATHWAY FROM SCHOOL TO ENGINEERING. Different fields of engineering (e.g.,

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Monitoring the canopy temperature of forests

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A collaborative approach helps with the sharing of skills and data among many researchers and allows for outcomes that are not possible to achieve by people working individually at separate sites. DR SOPHIE FAUSET School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK.

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I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be?

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At the University of East Anglia in the UK, Dr Oli Buckley’s research project is combining computer science and social science to answer these questions. WIZARD-OF-OZ EXPERIMENT – a particular form of an experiment in which participants believe they are communicating with a computer, but are interacting with a human.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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a line) Quantify — to measure the number or amount of something To what extent can art be used to communicate specific emotions? a line) Quantify — to measure the number or amount of something To what extent can art be used to communicate specific emotions? Most researchers love to talk about their work.

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How is mathematics applied to real world problems?

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Mathematical modelling — the ability to translate observations (experimental or otherwise) using mathematical theories and laws of physics to represent important features from a real-world problem. This variable is independent of space and time, and, in many cases, denotes the physical units associated with the dynamical system.