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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Scientific knowledge is proliferating in an unprecedented rate with an increasing number of journal articles and research papers published every year across various disciplines from humanities to medicine and technology. As researchers, our research stands on the shoulders of other researchers.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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By combining engineering and human rights disciplines, he is researching the links between access to transport and the inequalities facing Peruvians today. This required data about social factors in each district, such as the population age structure, level of employment and literacy rate. This process is known as peripheralisation.

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Technology and Explanation in Modern Education

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Topics like health, history, geography, music, etc. Make use of the Internet and have students check the news to improve their research skills. Imagine how the number of primary resources can grow in your classroom! Make use of eBooks, so students don’t have to carry all the resources to school.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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I went to university to study geography, then started a master’s in meteorology. I was also taking classes in remote sensing and GIS which I found very exciting, so I transitioned back to geography and focused on climatology for my master’s thesis. I’ve been working for the EPA for 30 years, and it’s been a great career.

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The secret life of fonts

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Linguistic anthropologists study the nature of language and how humans use it in their everyday lives, but Keith is taking his research in an unusual direction. If fonts have a social, cultural and political force, who is facilitating and managing that force, and how are they doing it? WHAT IS KEITH’S RESEARCH REVEALING?

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Can music be a tool for social transformation?

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This is why Professor Oscar Odena, an interdisciplinary researcher at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, decided to create a global network of people studying social music projects from Colombia in South America to the DRC in Africa. By 2019, Oscar had already spent a lot of time researching social music projects.