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The value and progress of jury research in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

The value and progress of jury research in Scotland

...studies carried out by 2011. Is there really anything new to learn? The answer is perhaps “always”, but the gaps in our knowledge are especially acute in Scotland because of the unique features of the Scottish jury system. Most jury research – where it involves jurors deliberating in groups rather than research which asks individual participants to reach decisions...
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Do whales use their heads to attack boats?
Nature & Environment

Do whales use their heads to attack boats?

...study looks at a controversial hypothesis regarding one potential function of the sperm whale’s enlarged head: ramming. A team of researchers from Australia, the U.K, the U.S., and Japan used structural engineering principles to test how the head of the sperm whale might be able to resist strong ramming impacts. A Whale of a Head The ramming hypothesis was originally...
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Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment

...studies have since been repeated many times with similar results. More recent research (cited by Sue Williams, 2021 see: Natural Resources Wales / Mending minds - the benefits of a 'dose of nature' for mental health) based on a large-scale survey discovered that all it took was a total of over 2 hours per week in nature for an increase in self-reported good health and...
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Remembering Thatcherism
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Thatcherism

...Studies, was a prescient analysis of the ‘swing to the right’ that was taking place in British society. In this article, Hall outlined the way in which Thatcher and the radical right had put together a critique of the post-war social democratic consensus and were attempting to construct a new consensus drawn from some of the ‘common sense’ hopes and fears of...
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Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial resilience or moving the goal posts?

...Studies have shown that in practice most entrepreneurs will combine both planning and effectual approaches, but each individual is likely to have a preferred mode of operation (2). An effectual approach has been linked to experience, with more experienced entrepreneurs increasingly adopting an effectual approach. The approach used by entrepreneurs will also vary with...
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Why do multinationals hope for a customs union?
Money & Business

Why do multinationals hope for a customs union?

...study, we show that rules of origin in free trade agreements distort global value chains, deterring final goods producers from importing inputs from non-member countries. We construct a unique dataset of the rules of origin contained in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the world’s largest free trade agreement: for every final good, we can trace all the...
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Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?
Society, Politics & Law

Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?

...Studies” courses. Airports are particularly interesting for geographers because they are an almost perfect example of how scale, distance and network are more complicated than you might initially think. And Heathrow is more complicated than most airports! Firstly, airports are about connections, and by some counts Heathrow is the second busiest airport in the world....
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Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...studies are only weakly represented in Spanish universities, reflecting both the historical discrimination against Catalan and contemporary concerns about the drive for independence in Catalonia. Only seven universities in Spain (outside Catalonia) teach and research Catalan, whereas 22 universities offer courses in the UK, 20 French higher education institutions offer...
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