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Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do female footballers experience knee injuries and what can be done?

...et al., 2020). An injury to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) in the knee has received special attention from researchers and the media due to its potential severity and because females are at a higher risk of sustaining the injury (Marmura, Bryant and Getgood, 2021). A study by Montalvo et al. (2019) found that female football players had more than double the...
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Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...et al, 2022a). However, research has shown that juries can be subject to biases that can impact the decision-making process when rendering a verdict (Willmott, 2019). These biases can include pre-trial publicity bias (Ruva & Coy, 2020), racial bias (Curley et al, 2022b), rape myth bias (Dinos et al, 2014), and social media influence (Taylor & Tarrant, 2019), all of which...
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Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?
Society, Politics & Law

Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?

...Institute for Sustainable Futures, Stuart White, described it to me, because it is both essential and increasingly scarce. The value of phosphorus lies in the fact that is it innately entwined with global food security. The systematic application of phosphorus in the form of phosphate fertilisers was a defining element of the ‘green revolution’, the series of...
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Why are tiger moths making people unwell - and what can we do about it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are tiger moths making people unwell - and what can we do about it?

...Institute of Medical Sciences (Aster-MIMS) Research Foundation, Kozhikode. It was a study conducted by a team of researchers at Aster– MIMS, published April in PLoS One, that showed the close association between proliferation of Tiger moth allergens and fever outbreaks. The study also showed that the moth allergens are usually not taken into account in Kerala, with...
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Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe
Nature & Environment

Post-Brexit: we need a new vision for Europe

...institution – is an easy distraction. It’s also a damaging response that impacts the most vulnerable in society, and bolsters the extreme positions pushed by the political parties on the far-right. Europe and the EU institutions in particular stand at a cross-roads. Sticking with the same tried and failed neoliberal medicine will result in even bigger inequality and...
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Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...Institute (DIE), the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in Kenya, the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden, in cooperation with the UNFCCC secretariat, and supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to a statement from DIE last month (16 January). Visit the Nationally Determined Contributions Explorer The experts...
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The power of learning analytics to give students (and teachers) what they want!
Miscellaneous

The power of learning analytics to give students (and teachers) what they want!

...Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at The Open University. He is programme director Learning Analytics within IET and head of Data Wranglers, whereby he leads a group of learning analytics academics who conduct evidence-based research and sense-making of Big Data at the OU. As an educational psychologist, he conducts multi-disciplinary research on work-based and...
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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...et al., 2024). The course will also include findings from other published work focussing on the management of children’s pain in hospital. [Described image] Figure 1 Framework for delivering effective pain management (Simons et al., 2020) Hospital experiences often involve pain, with up to 80% of hospitalised children having at least one painful procedure every 24...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs