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An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...become the subject of thought, and human beings could reason about it. Example 1 Temperature If you touch a surface, one of the things you will sense is its temperature, i.e. whether it is hot, cold or neither. This is a survival mechanism: if a surface is so hot, or so cold, that it will damage your hand, you need to remove it immediately. But between the extremes of...
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...becomes clear that the relationship between children’s books and childhood is far from simple; even the bright world of Winnie-the-Pooh carries within it echoes of Milne’s traumatic experiences in the First World War – the need to create a retreatist, idyllic world – and his ambivalence towards real childhood, shown in the oversentimentalised image of Christopher...
What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...become smarter - but there are also security risks. Brian Nussbaum is reassured that we're already talking about the potential downsides...The rapid growth of embedded computing and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) have been felt in many industries and areas, but few organizations and jurisdictions have been affected as quickly and as deeply as cities. The emergence of...
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...become instruments of power in markets and societies; and it argues that the market impact of shared calculative devices, social narratives, and contingent imaginaries underlines the rationale for a new form of narrative economics. Particular attention is paid to how central banks expend huge efforts on crafting messages that can channel expectations and influence...
Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...become Ireland was to be found around the equator as part of a continent called Laurentia. The land was desert where wind-blown sand became sandstones, some containing pebbles, which later became conglomerates. Lapping the coast was a warm tropical sea with corals, primitive fish and some very large brachiopod shells as well as microscopic shelled animals. The shells and...
Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...becomes an even greater challenge. It's a challenge to which Karim Guédé rose. Guédé was born in Hamburg, and has been playing in the Slovakian leagues since 2006. He took Slovakian citizenship in 2011, enabling him to qualify for the national team. He had very nearly played for Togo - his father's birthplace - during the 2006 World Cup, but an injury kept him out the...
On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...become a ‘rights bearing person’ or a ‘rights claiming person’? There are really interesting questions around citizenship and how that relates to crossing borders. What made you think of Rotherhithe? Alia: Well it’s the nearest tunnel to my house. I had travelled through the Rotherhithe and the Blackwall tunnel in a car; the Rotherhithe is more atmospheric and...
Unlocking the diversity of the past
History & The Arts

Unlocking the diversity of the past

...becoming famous throughout Europe as the 'Ladies of Llangollen'. Painting by J.H. Lynch c.1880 courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru /The National Library of Wales. Some people think of history as something that should be confined to books and school lessons, something almost alien. The author L. P. Hartley called it, ‘a foreign country: they do things differently...