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The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...data interpretation. The question is often asked how such a contentious paper came to be published in the first place. Click on the following link to download a PDF of the original paper published in The Lancet (1998), 351, pp. 637–41 – http://briandeer.com/ mmr/ lancet-paper.pdf (accessed 6 September 2012). It will be useful to have this paper to hand as you now look...
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UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...Data from a small-scale survey conducted as part of the research point to an average monthly wage of £584 and a weekly household income of £229 (and these figures are likely to overstate actual wages and incomes across the local industry). Evidence we collected suggests that the underpaid wage sum for the East Midlands alone amounts to £1 million per week. In other...
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What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...data which revealed that 66 of the 152 council areas with responsibility for schools would have more primary-age pupils than places for them in 2016-17, rising to 85 areas in 2017-18 and 94 areas in 2018-19. The government response to the accountability gap – which has already led to issues such as the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham – has been to implement the...
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What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?

...data demonstrates the collateral damage these drugs can do,” Dantas said. “If doctors give penicillin, it makes sense that you will see enrichment in the proportion of bacteria resistant to penicillin. But perhaps a vancomycin-resistant gene is nearby. A doctor may not even be giving vancomycin, but vancomycin resistance increases because the genes happen to be...
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Explainer: how hostile is space?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: how hostile is space?

...data received from them. You can see effects of this damage in a lot of the videos by astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. In full screen and streaming at highest quality, you will find white spots in the darker areas of the picture. These are caused by radiation damage to the sensor, which allows signal to be created by the temperature of...
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Researching cycling in the US & the UK
Society, Politics & Law

Researching cycling in the US & the UK

...data on how many cyclists there are and where they’re going from and to and they tend to be going to Inner London, but we don’t actually know, why do they do this and where do they go: do they go shopping by bike but they don’t visit their grandmother, or do they only commute to work and they have almost no cycling outside of this, things like that. Interviewer:...
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Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation
Society, Politics & Law

Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation

...data were also reportedly being used for Home Office mapping. Similar stories have emerged as far afield as Bristol, Brighton and Cardiff. Seeing someone sleeping in the snow raises uncomfortable questions about British society today which must be acknowledged – then addressed head-on. It’s not enough to send a text and continue walking. Finally, in December 2017, the...
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The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies
OpenLearn Ireland

The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies

...Methodists, Quakers and especially Anglicans) accounted for 2% (Kenny, 2000, p. 42). He also points out that about three quarters of the American Irish were of Ulster origin. Overall, this data highlights how Protestant migrants from Ulster, who were predominantly Presbyterian, played an important role in shaping the Irish diaspora in America during the colonial period....
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