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Turkish Student’s Extracurricular Activities & Education System in Turkey
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Breaking Barriers: Bridging Healthcare Gaps in Remote Landscapes
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CRISPR as gene editing
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Some Kind Words for Kindle
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Beyond Dollars and Cents: The Multifaceted Nature of Happiness
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Music: The panacea for emotional and physical health
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Music’s Modern Role as a Universal Language
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Job Interview Ep.03: Dentistry Major
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Job Interview Ep.02: Computer Science Major & Microsoft Software Engineer
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Introduction to Exhibition Models
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Desperate for Kettle
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6th Edition of the Lucidity Magazine
Take a look at the most recent edition of the Lucidity Magazine.
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The Great Escape
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The Black Death and Its Unexpected Opportunities
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Evaluation of power: Probing into United Kingdom and Turkey
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A Collection of Medical Articles
Click the link below to download the most recent edition of the medical magazine from NLCS UK.
Assessing the Significance of Prohibition
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Unpopular Subsidies On Unpopular Entertainment: On the Legitimacy of State-Coerced Subsidies
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Denying the Holocaust
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The fundamental theorem of line integrals: Is work path-independent?
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Blood type testing
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Korea’s contribution to ITER – the beginning of energy innovation
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Supervised vs. Unsupervised Machine Learning
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Forensic science
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RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)
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The Endocannabinoid System: A Guide to the Bodily Regulator
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Clinical Psychology – How it works and its future
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Plagues, Pestilence and Other Pandemics: An Exploration of Disease Outbreak and its Unanticipated Benefit
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SIR Models & Curve Fitting
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Big Pharma Conspiracy –fact or fiction?
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Should Humans Fear Advances in AI?
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NLCS Dubai Medical Magazine volume 1.
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Autonomous Vehicles
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The Reality of Colours
What the majority of animals can see everyday are the colours of objects. One may see the sky…
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DeepMind-Using AI for Cutting-Edge Innovation
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CRISPR Cas 9 has the potential to solve all of the society’s problems. Do you agree?
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Global Highlights May Volume 1
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AlphaGo and the Measure of Artificial Intelligence
In March 2016, “AlphaGo” of Google DeepMind played against Lee Sedol, a 9-dan ranked professional Go player referred…
Self Driving
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Medical review 2019
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LSBT society: Science week 2019.
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Was Tacoma bridge destroyed because of resonance?
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