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Recovery at the Rugby World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery at the Rugby World Cup

...analysis of 12 compression garment studies Hill et al. (2014) concluded that there is evidence that compression garments are moderately effective in enhancing recovery from exercise induced muscle damage. So it would seem that there is some value to using compression garments to aid recovery. Massage [massage ] Massage is commonly used by rugby players to enhance their...
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Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?
Society, Politics & Law

Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?

...analysis of UK-wide broadcast programming has shown Wales generally, and the assembly specifically, represent only a tiny proportion of the news agenda. [UK wide news programmes viewed by Welsh audience] The survey also found that 11% regularly rely on the internet for news – whether online sites or blogs and Twitter, with 27% using Facebook. We can only speculate about...
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Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy

...analysis can be used to examine the media ecology of tweets, photos, videos and other website content. The extent to which a social movement’s ideas and language gain traction can be measured by examining how ideas from the 15M social media capture the attention of traditional newspapers. Such methods go some way to exploring the impact of a social movement, by building...
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Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Is Europe letting down Eritrean refugees?

...analysis of Eritrean domestic politics or its destabilising activities in the Horn of Africa. With its asylum and foreign policy in something of a shambles, the British government lacks a coherent approach to the Horn of Africa or towards forced migration in Africa – and as a result it is dependent on EU migration policy initiatives to reduce migration. But as the...
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Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story
Science, Maths & Technology

Your house is full of space dust – it reveals the solar system's story

...the planets formed, and how water and organic matter fit into the picture. We will never complete the jigsaw in my lifetime but continued analysis of samples returned from the depths of the solar system will help us make progress to figuring out where we came from. [The Conversation] This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Gender, IT and economic growth
Society, Politics & Law

Gender, IT and economic growth

...Analysis of Women's Employment in Third World Export Manufacturing, Feminist Review (1981) 7: 87–107. Mitter, S. (2000) ‘Teleworking and teletrade in India: combining diverse perspectives and visions’, Economic and Political Weekly 26: 2241-2251. Pieterse, J. (2011) ‘Global Rebalancing, Crisis and the East-South Turn’, Development and Change 42 (1): 22-48....
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Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?
Money & Business

Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?

...analysis experts Vysyble recently highlighted concerns over the economic performance of Sky, the chief financier of the Premier League. It reported that despite a £6.1 billion growth in revenue since 2012, losses have risen by £945m in the same period. The broadcasting giant’s economic losses stand at £208m for the past 12 months alone. Couple this with a 14% drop in...
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Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...analysis of 370,000 articles published in the Guardian and the Daily Mail between 2010 and 2015. In order to locate which areas each newspaper associated with poverty and deprivation, we used corpus linguistics software and geographical information systems to extract all the instances where a place name appeared within ten words of a set of terms relating to poverty, such...
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