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Anna

Getting Reluctant Readers To Read...

Being able to read is one of the most important skills a human learns and is vital for ensuring success in everyday life. However, children often find learning to read `boring` and ma...
Genevieve

How can we work out the relationships between animal phyla? Why might we care?

The categorisation of all living matter is organised into the tree of life; this describes the pathway of evolution and how animals are related to each-other. The Kingdom Metazoa (ani...
Genevieve

Pleiotropic effects of HLA-DQ mutation in predisposition to T1 diabetes mellitus and celiac disease

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is a region on chromosome 6. There are 224 identified gene loci (of which 128 are protein coding) meaning that HLA has the highest gene density of any ge...
Genevieve

Biotechnological function of Vespa Orientalis wasp cuticle

Biological/biotechnological function: The cuticle acts as a biological solar cell, converting light energy to electrical energy. Under experimental conditions, voltages of several ...
Genevieve

Why a dogs bite is worse than its bark...?

Every year 55,000 people worldwide die from the rabies virus. Rabies is an enzootic virus, prevalent in certain animal populations mainly within Asia and Africa. However, it is also a...
Joseph

Maths is a hands on subject

A quote that is often given in mathematical circles is "maths is not a spectator sport". This probably sounds very strange to anyone who hasn`t spent a lot of time studying maths (and...
Juan

The act of tuning and the sight reading process

It is common between amateurs to forget that playing the piano implies tuning properly -the same as when playing any other string instrument or even singing-. The muscle management th...
Melanie

Budget 2014 - What`s next for youth and children services?

Since George Osborne delivered the 2014 Budget to Parliament last week a raging debate has arisen among practitioners of services for children and young people. This has been conce...
Ashley

A few simple piano warm ups

Here is one type of exercise you can start with. This is a simple five finger exercise which includes the first five notes of a major scale. Your five fingers on both hands will be...
Sharon

Advice for an efficient piano practice

Requirements for a good start (1) PRIVACY: practise in a private room, also well ventilated, which allows for better concentration, the principle source of good practice. For...