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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

...English. In contrast, information involves linking together two or more items of data to provide an item of knowledge. If someone suddenly said to you, ‘38 °C’, you’d be a bit puzzled. However, being told, ‘The patient’s temperature is 38 °C’, would convey information. In other words, information can be thought of as the answer to a question such as: ‘What...
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Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction
History & The Arts

Harper Lee's life was as surprising as any work of fiction

...English literature as a school and college student. Moving to New York in 1949, she worked in various jobs and spent her spare time writing several long short stories, none of which were published. The turning point in her early life came when Lee developed what had begun as a string of short stories into a novel that was eventually published in 1960 as To Kill a...
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Rugby: A game of risk and reward
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A game of risk and reward

...English school boy, George Robinson (aged 17) suffered a transection of his spinal cord whilst playing rugby for his school in Cape Town. George underwent surgery in South Africa and when safe to be moved was flown home in September and is still undergoing extensive rehabilitation. At present George’s movement below the neck is limited to his right bicep and minimal...
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From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old
History & The Arts

From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

...English at the Request and for the Use of the Lady Damp-Fart, of Her-fart-shire” by “Obadiah Fizzle, Groom of the Stool to the Princess of Arse-Mini in Sardinia.” And an opening poetic ode refers to the flatus as “Cure of cholick, cure of gripes, tuneful drone of lower pipes.” Swift then goes on to subject the fart to a detailed analysis – carefully describing...
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Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?
History & The Arts

Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?

...English hero, with whom the audience were expected to identify at the expense of Nigel Bruce’s dunderheaded Watson (a characterisation that overlooks much of the subtlety of Doyle’s Watson). By contrast, postmodern adaptations seek to constrain Holmes, to question easy heroics: films such as The Seven Per Cent Solution (1976) and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) rendered...
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How does Coronation Street bring politics home?
Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...English and Polish workers at a garment factory. Our interpretive coding of the 10 episodes featuring the storyline uncovered four key themes: race, gender, fear, and political agency. By continually returning to these themes without offering any resolution, the soap stages everyday life as a complex constellation of global forces, including those of globalisation and...
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Life in immigration limbo: Befriending the women of Yarl's Wood
Society, Politics & Law

Life in immigration limbo: Befriending the women of Yarl's Wood

...English skills, detainees have demonstrated collective acts of dissent in the few ways they can inside detention centres. Collectively refusing food – also known as “hunger strikes” – has been a more common act of disapproval of Home Office policies and practices. [The Conversation]The Samaritans can be contacted in the UK on 116 123. Papyrus is contactable on...
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Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...english version of the site is also available) The Empire Marketing Board and its posters Manchester City Art Galleries The MacDonald Gill Project at the University of Brighton – on the life of the Highways of Empire artist Empire and its legacies The Open University's Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies: Working Papers on Africa and Asia historical to...
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