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Hard vs Soft Skills in STEM Education

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While hard skills provide the foundational knowledge and technical expertise necessary to solve complex problems and conduct research, soft skills enable effective communication, teamwork, and adaptability. Here are some primary hard skills: Data Analysis: The ability to collect, interpret, and draw meaningful conclusions from data.

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

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The next step involves implementing schemes and programmes that can support people living in poverty and help them to achieve financial security. Through these trials, researchers can confirm whether any changes to the study population are being caused by the intervention, as opposed to other variables.

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Using agrobiology to ensure sustainable food production

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To ensure our planet continues to provide for us, researchers the world over are investigating ways to make the way we live more sustainable. She also used MGnify, a bioinformatics service run by the institute, which allowed for a complete analysis of the data and a precise identification of microorganisms in her unique set of soil samples.

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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For example, when teaching spreadsheets, make the software or online tools a vehicle for practicing critical thinking, data analysis, and evidence-based learning, not for learning one brand of software or a particular spreadsheet tool. To focus on the over-arching concepts above, make learning platform-neutral.

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Can we control the electrical activity in our brains?

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This research has the potential to deepen our understanding of the human brain, paving the way for treatments of conditions such as epilepsy and schizophrenia. How does neuroscience research on mice benefit humans? Two areas of overlapping colours show the primary and secondary whisker areas. Field of research : Neuroscience.

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What lessons can we learn from past pandemics?

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Their research sheds light on the significant role that social inequalities play in determining the outcomes of a pandemic. GATHERING DATA. Taylor and Lisa use death records as their main source of quantitative data for their research. TALK LIKE A BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST.

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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

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Mexican women often follow their partners into the workforce to support the family income, but they also tend to have primary responsibility for children, family and the home, meaning that the time they have left to socialise and develop meaningful relationships with other women is scarce. I’m not even a medical anthropologist.