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Episodes
443 episodes
Do joint manipulation sounds make a difference in physical therapy outcomes?
Joint manipulation, applying a manipulation force to the spine to improve joint mobility and reduce pain, often comes with an audible pop. Patients and some practitioners often regard this audible sound as a sign of a successful treatment, but ...
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How can we ensure private communication?
We increasingly rely on electronic communications across society. You may have heard privacy protection methods for those messages, such as end-to-end encryption. However, can that protection be guaranteed against governments, industries or bad...
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9:52
Helium nanodroplets for material science research
Helium nanodroplets are fascinating objects that can be used as microscopic laboratories to form new types of nanomaterials. Researchers in COSY COST Action’s Working Group 4 , which recently celebrated its second anniversary...
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Confined Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Clusters
A nanoparticle is a tiny particle typically in the size range of one to one hundred nanometres. Nano-scale systems can exhibit unique quantum mechanical properties due to their size. The European Association for Cooperation in Sci...
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Advances in catastrophic slope failure forecasts
On most days, a weather forecast is a convenient answer to simple questions, like : do I need an umbrella? How windy will it be? For high stakes questions around landslide hazards, how do we deal with slope failure forecast? And ar...
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Regenerative medicine: Revolutionising osteoarthritis treatment
Osteoarthritis is the most common disease in the world, characterised by the progressive degeneration of cartilage in the joints.Dr Torbjörn Ogéus from the Stockholms led- & smärtspecialist clinic in Sweden, who is pioneering regene...
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Alternative fuels reduce harmful emissions during combustion
Transportation is a key part of our life, either travelling ourselves or in transporting goods. Fossil fuels are still the most widely applied fuel for transportation purposes, given that the vast majority of engines are traditional combustion ...
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Equine-assisted services help families impacted by domestic abuse
For millennia, humans and horses have enjoyed a special relationship. Recent research shows that working with horses can improve human mental health and wellbeing. Professor Ann Hemingway is part of a multidisciplinary team that has dem...
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RNA sequencing in Alzheimers investigations
We humans share over 99% of our DNA with each other. This means personalised therapies for diseases such as cancer or neurodegenerative conditions have to be tailored to the most minute differences between us - or even between our own cells.&nb...
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Just war and class conflict in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V’
‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers’ – King Henry’s speech to rouse his troops before the Battle of Agincourt is one of the most famous in Shakespeare. But what does ‘Henry V’ tell us about theories of war in Elizabethan England?...
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How CEO Protection Shapes Corporate Debt
What happens when CEOs are shielded by employment and severance agreements? Researchers from Singapore Management University, University of Hong Kong, Boston College, and led by Dr. Xia Chen put forward this critical question. &nbs...
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Molecular motion in confined systems
As part of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, or COST Action, Working Group 2 of the COSY network focuses on developing efficient methods for describing the motion of molecules in confined systems. Their work covers fou...
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The potency puzzle: Understanding cannabis in the modern age
CBD has emerged as a non-psychoactive agent in cannabis, stimulating a boom of boutique cannabis products into the medicinal and adult use markets .The innovative CannaMetrix EC50 Array™ offers a solution to traditional chemical m...
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Revolutionizing Strategic Management: Embracing Sustainability and Spirituality
The global business landscape has undergone a profound transformation in recent decades. As sustainability, energy transition, and climate change have taken center stage, the need for a paradigm shift in strategic management has become increasi...
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Diagnosing Traumatic Brain Injury with a Handheld Device
Traumatic brain injury remains a major cause of disability and death worldwide, and timely detection of the injury could lead to early intervention and save lives.Professor Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer at the University of Birmingham, UK, ...
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Audible Barcodes – A Symphony of Data
Barcodes and QR codes have become ubiquitous sights in our current information age.Soorya Annadurai, an independent researcher and software engineer at Microsoft in the USA, has developed a solution for these situations: audible barcode...
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Why do secondary school admissions rules matter?
In an age of academies and free schools, secondary schools in England have never had more freedom over their admissions rules. But how do they decide who gets in and who doesn’t? And does it really matter?These are the issues explored in...
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Entrepreneurs in Conflict Zones
In conflict zones, businesses are widely seen as a positive force that promotes peace.Dr Jay Joseph at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and colleagues have studied micro and small enterprises, identifying their often contradi...
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12:11
The business of a more porous campus
It is believed that being more porous in nature will enable universities to create a talent pool of graduates with en entrepreneurial mindset and access to the very latest thinking, technology and innovation.But is this enough to stem t...
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The business of spinout success
The government of Malaysia has set a target of making Malaysia a regional hub for startups by 2025. As of 2022, there were approximately 3,000 active startups in Malaysia, a stark increase from around 300 in 2013. However, whilst 30% of Malaysi...
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Open For Business
Malaysia welcomes far more international students than any other country in SE Asia, yet it is losing talent faster than most with its brightest minds leaving the country to pursue careers overseas. With Malaysia’s Higher Education...
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The role of responsible business in tackling the climate crisis
As the rate of climate events increases, how do businesses respond, adapt and keep their staff safe?In this episode of Responsible Business: Leading the Way, Professor Veronica Hope Hailey, Dean of the University of Bristol Business Sch...
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What leading through the pandemic has taught us about trust
Trust, from employees, customers and other stakeholders, is core to responsible business. And since the pandemic, people expect even more from businesses, which are – according to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer -- the only institution tru...
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The new rules of work: How the psychological contract is evolving
The psychological contract has changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic, with the balance of power swinging towards the employee.In this episode, Professor Veronica Hope Hailey and her guest, Jane Cathrall, Executive Directo...
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Cabot Conversations: Untangling the water system - surprising impacts of climate change
Cabot Institute for the Environment scientists, Dr Gemma Coxon and Dr Ross Woods, highlight some surprising facts about the water system and how nature based solutions to drought and floods may not serve the purpose we want, especially if imple...
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