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Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Magical Modernity in a Muggle World? Witchcraft, Spirituality and Everyday Enchantment

...statistics to have wider economic, social and health implications. The NHS Trust Association’s website, designed for use by health service professionals, lists crystal healing, dowsing and flower therapy amongst the recommended complementary and alternative therapies available. Spiritual healing has been trialled in a major English hospital with positive outcomes for...
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Left behind?
Society, Politics & Law

Left behind?

...statistic, a recent event reminded me of how left-handedness is still something we struggle to live with. Just look at the latest Apple watch launched in September 2014. After the launch, Apple was inundated with thousands of complaints from left-handed people saying the watch was designed for right-handed people. I am sure Bill Gates at Microsoft (see famous left-handers...
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Article 5 mins
A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...RCN International Research Conference. Oxford, UK, 5-7 April 2017. Statista (2019) Global active usage penetration of leading social networks as of February 2019. Available at: www.statista.com/statistics/274773/global-penetration-of-selected-social-media-sites/ (Accessed 22 January 2020). Find out how secure your social media profiles are Discover more content like this...
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Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why
Health, Sports & Psychology

Drivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the problem – here’s why

...Statistically speaking, of course, this is highly unlikely. But this ‘self-enhancement bias’ gives drivers a rationale for believing their mobile phone use is safe, while condemning others for doing the same thing. Phone-using drivers justify their behaviour by claiming they are able to modify their mobile phone use dependent on the driving situation, such as limiting...
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60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence
Digital & Computing

60 Second Adventures in Artificial Intelligence

...statistical sense, but humans are still needed to interpret those results appropriately. Once it has been properly trained, a specific AI can perform a specific task with superhuman speed and sometimes with superhuman accuracy. Unfortunately, the same AI can often fail miserably when presented with a similar, but not quite identical, task. In contrast, human beings...
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Ethnicity as a Learning Tool
Education & Development

Ethnicity as a Learning Tool

...statistical report by the Universities UK (2019). The question is if ethnicity is a contributing factor to the inequitable learning outcomes then how can ethnicity be used as a defining factor to minimise the wide gap in learning attainment? This is however a very difficult task as institutional effort is not enough to popularise the positive effect of ethnicity in the...
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Article 10 mins
Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beyond the plate: Autism, food and sensory sensitivities

...Statistical Manual in 2013. It’s important to note that ARFID isn’t diagnosed exclusively in autistic people, however the two can often co-occur. Some of ARFID’s characteristics are: low appetite or general disinterest in food avoidance of eating because of sensory processing differences weight loss nutritional deficiencies significant psycho-social implications –...
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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...statistical and quantitative data, which the risk factor analysis is based on, is perceptions about notions of risk from young people themselves or from the practitioners within the youth justice system, which may be completely at odds with what seems to be indicated by quantitative research. So, in other words, it generalises probabilities to specific individuals and, as...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs