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How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...research which studies the social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find that multiplexity – when two...
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Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...Lead at the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care); Dr Chantal Meystre (Director of The Omega Course) and Dr Guy Peryer (Lecturer and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East of England Palliative and End of Life Care Research Fellow). The recording is available as an episode of the Open Thanatology Talks! Podcast series, available on Spotify and Amazon Music....
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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...research evidence strongly suggests that education in prison can help people desist (move away) from offending". The UK has one of the highest rates of re-offending in the Western world and this comes at huge costs to both taxpayers and victims. Encouraging engagement with education in prisons should be a priority as it has been shown to work in reducing re-offending....
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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...research...We start ageing the moment we are born. The process of ageing is demonstrated more significantly when we reach a certain age, the usual benchmark being 65+, but our ageing starts much sooner, and the way ageing demonstrates itself when we are over 65 depends on the decisions we have been making over our life span. The age associated decline is both physical and...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...researchers working at The Open University answer cancer-related questions about the new coronavirus in this series of articles...Who are we? We are cancer researchers working at The Open University. Our daily job involves identifying and testing new therapies and new diagnostic technologies for cancers. For this reason, we are regularly in contact with cancer charities...
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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...Research has shown that he was either Welsh or from the north of England with others claiming he may have come from Bath in Somerset. Irish identity and stories of migration Just like Saint Patrick’s identity, Irish identity itself is not wholly green and crystal clear, with rising tensions regarding immigration, emigration and what constitutes Irishness post pandemic....
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1980s: We had to develop a methodology that taught us to attend, not only to what people said about race but… to what people could not say about race, it was the silences that told us something; it was what wasn’t there, it was what was invisible, what couldn’t be put into the frame, what was apparently unsayable that we needed to...
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The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...Research Centre. Lauterpacht, H. (1952) ‘The Problem of the Revision of the Law of War’, British Yearbook of International Law, vol. 29, pp. 360–82. Reichberg, G. M., Syse, H. and Begby, E. (2006) The Ethics of War, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing. Van Schaack, B. (2011) ‘The Crime of Aggression and Humanitarian Intervention on Behalf of Women’, International...
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