REMAIN OR LEAVE? REFLECTIONS ON THE PEDAGOGICAL AND INFORMATIVE VALUE OF A MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE ON THE 2016 UK REFERENDUM ON EU MEMBERSHIP

Remain or Leave? Reflections on the pedagogical and informative value of a Massive Open Online Course on the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership

While the British electorate was asked to vote on a simple-sounding question during the UK referendum on EU membership in June 2016, the issues at play were extremely complex.In order to help potential voters make sense of the debate, the authors ran a free Massive Open Online Course sweet nothings acai bowl (MOOC) on the referendum in the weeks le

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Social adversity during juvenile age but not adulthood increases susceptibility to an immune challenge later in life

Adverse experiences in early life can increase mental vulnerability to immune challenges experienced later in life, which may induce the development of stress-related psychopathologies.Here, we investigated whether the combined effect of both events is higher if the first adverse experience occurs when the brain is still in development.Therefore, m

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Free radical exposure creates paler carotenoid-based ornaments: a possible interaction in the expression of black and red traits.

Oxidative stress could be a key selective force shaping the expression of colored traits produced by the primary animal pigments in integuments: carotenoids and melanins.However, the impact of oxidative stress on melanic ornaments has only recently been explored, whereas its role in the expression of carotenoid-based traits is not fully understood.

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