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Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...data speeds, online and mobile game has also been booming in China over the past several years. According to the 2014 report of China’s game industry, the gross value of online and mobile game have surged to over $88 billion. Niko Partners, a research intelligence firm specializing in the Asian game market, said in its 2015 China’s video game report that sales of the...
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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...data provided by Oxfam deals only with recorded wealth, with much of the wealth of the super-rich hidden away in assorted hide-a-ways around the world, the names of many of which are increasingly as familiar to us as are overseas holiday destinations. Visualising inequality This aside, it is a difficult task to even begin to grasp the enormity of these inequalities and...
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Diary of a new Life Peer
Society, Politics & Law

Diary of a new Life Peer

...Data Protection and Digital Information Bill. 25 April 2024 I gave my maiden speech during a debate on the topic of affordable housing. The debate motion tabled for the debate was: Viscount Chandos to move that this House takes note of the supply of genuinely affordable housing, its impact on the economy, and the steps needed to increase supply, particularly for key...
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Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...data from the ONS website. How did the construction of racial classifications based on skin pigmentation come about, and what was it in service of? Why are only the Black and white skin pigmentation classifications still in use in the UK census?...Introducing Union Black: 2.3 Undoing bias: learning about others - Am I learning for myself or learning from labels or...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...data from studies looking at urban areas and schizophrenia incidence together, in a type of study called a ‘meta-analysis’. They found that when all the data was combined together, the risk for developing schizophrenia was 2.37 times higher in the most urban environments compared to the most rural environments. There are a few possible explanations for this pattern....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...analysis had advanced just enough to contemplate an effort to hunt down the defective Doberman gene. *** I can never reconstruct the combination of factors that led to the onset of my own narcolepsy, but the stage was set at the moment of my conception in 1972, at around the time of Monique’s birth in Saskatchewan. My one-cell self inherited a particular version of a...
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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...data was collected and published by COMA, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (1991). This committee has now been disbanded, but its publications still represent a valid source of information about diet. When this course was published (2004), the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) advised the Department of Health and the Food Standards Agency...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...analysis turned out to be a ‘cut and paste job’ designed to influence MPs to vote for military action in Iraq (White, MacAskill and Norton-Taylor, 2003). There may be different standards and expectations around copying material depending on what you are doing, what material you are using, how you are using the material, what conditions exist around the use of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs