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Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions
Languages

Swapping between languages: Bilingual people expressing emotions

...data, there is not much of a difference between the functional role of Arabic and English. Having said that, there seems to be a general pattern that is emerging in the data that English – or rather switches from Arabic into English – is used to take up ‘expressive’ stances, particularly positive ones. This pattern is particularly marked when it comes to...
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Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...data sets challenge the limits of ‘humanly generated’ data. We need experimental, multiple methods for knowing the social; and we need to reflect about the consequences of how we know the social. [Painting of bodies by Elizabeth Silva] This blog series 'Methods in Motion', which I have edited since September 2016, has aimed to gather experiences in creating knowledge...
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Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...data from a questionnaire survey with police officers and senior officers, as well as data from the ASD community exploring their perceptions of interacting with the police, so I can identify areas of police practice where improvement might be needed and develop and test operational procedures to improve police practice during the identification process. References...
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How bad are things at the Great Barrier Reef?
Nature & Environment

How bad are things at the Great Barrier Reef?

...data in article showing death on the Great Barrier Reef] Bright spots The bleaching, and subsequent loss of corals, is very patchy. Our map shows clearly that coral death varies enormously from north to south along the 2,300km length of the Reef. The southern third of the Reef did not experience severe heat stress in February and March. Consequently, only minor bleaching...
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Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...data from 6,711 participants, to investigate the influence of portion, package and tableware size on food consumption. These results are published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. The data showed that people consistently consume more food and drink when offered larger-sized portions, packages or tableware than when offered smaller-sized versions, suggesting...
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An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...data into a software system – the neural net – which mimics a human brain and it learns by picking up this training, repeating it and testing it, and then, if it works, fine! If it doesn’t work, you train it some more! Q: What is AI actually capable of doing? A: You’re using AI every day if you’re on social media. AI is classifying the information you see. It...
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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...analysis of the data shown in Figures 4 (a) and 4 (b) is needed to set it in a wider context. We need to know how many openings were created after the NDYP was launched, who participates in the programme, and with what outcomes. Not only would this answer questions about the significance of participations and withdrawals, it would allow insights into the rationale for...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...data understand the basic concepts of electrical voltage and resistance, and the parameters used to specify batteries demonstrate an overview of the historical development of IT in video recording, newsgathering and new dissemination compare the merits of different media as sources of news discuss issues of trust and authenticity in information sources...IT: Information:...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs