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Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...statistics tend to obscure the sheer numbers of those with access to radio. Although in both Russia and Italy private ownership rates were low, many people listened to broadcasts in public spaces: in Russia programmes were broadcast over loudspeakers, while in Italy radios were commonplace in cafes and factories (Wasserstein, 2009, p. 235). In contrast, Britain and...
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...Statistics (2021) Female Employment Rate (aged 16 to 64, seasonally adjusted). Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/timeseries/lf25/lms (Accessed: 22 December 2021). Paterson, L. (2020) ‘Curriculum and opportunity in Scottish secondary education: a half‐century of expansion and inequality’, Curriculum...
Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...statistical analysis regarding Muslim women. In fact, a general search on the Internet reveals little in the way of any studies at all. How then I question, can Sport England ever hope to achieve ‘everyone in England regardless of their age, background or level of ability to feel able to take part in sport and physical activity.’ I do note however that the strategy...
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...Statistics, Social Trends 29, 1999, Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland) © Office for National Statistics, Social Trends 29, 1999, Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with permission of the Controller of HMSO...
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Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...statistics relating to the massive scale of killing involved by fishing and aquaculture. However, these figures are not comprehensive, as they exclude ‘accidental’ deaths, commonly referred to as ‘bycatch’ (Inoue, 2017). Note that ‘accidental’ is in quotation marks, to indicate that the routine operation of commercial fishing inevitably kills non-target...
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...Statistics also highlight the problems of dealing with a whole range of behaviours which are seen as challenging in the mainstream school context. In England, in 2017, for instance, over 7000 pupils were permanently excluded from all types of state schools, with over 400,000 receiving fixed term exclusions (Selfe & Richmond, 2020). These schools also had to respond to an...
Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...statistics as the century progresses. FB: You are right. It is ... today about 80% of the global energy comes from fossil fuels; the rest from renewables and nuclear power. RH: Sorry, and just to gloss on that: that’s electricity we’re talking about? FB: No total energy. RH: Total energy. FB: More than 80 percent of our total energy comes from fossil fuels, namely...
An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...doi: 10.1111/iwj.12623. Public Health England (2019) MRSA bacteraemia: annual data. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mrsa-bacteraemia-annual-data (Accessed: 15 April 2020). WHO (2020) WHO: Infection prevention and control, WHO. World Health Organization. Available at: https://www.who.int/infection-prevention/about/ipc/en/ (Accessed: 15 April 2020)....