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Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...data to back it up. To be fair, Arnall himself has admitted that the equation is not particularly helpful. A lack of data is not surprising if you think about the amount of work that would be involved in a study like this. You would have to take a large group of people and measure each of these factors every day of the year. You would then need to assess the relative...
Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...data we are getting from the emissions seem slowing down of the emissions mainly as a result of renewables playing a more important role in the global energy mix, and efficiency policies are bearing fruits. This is one: the data is getting… encouraging data. And the second, more and more countries are committed to address the climate change – the governments –...
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...analysis’ and ‘systematic reviews’. These studies identify, compare, analyse and synthesise findings from a number of previously published studies. Meta-analyses in particular involve the use of statistical methods to compare findings among different studies. A cautionary note is that not all studies are done or explained equally well; they may present several...
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...data and how data can tell us something about the state of the economy and whether things are going wrong. That’s a bit like looking at the dashboard of a car. And just as with a car if you’re looking at the dashboard and the red lights are flashing you want to know what can policymakers do to steer the economy back on track. And that’s essentially what Block 2 is...
Can rugby be made safer - and still be rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rugby be made safer - and still be rugby?

...analysis of Bledisloe Cup rugby matches between Australia and New Zealand in 2004, researchers counted an average of nearly 500 collisions in a game: 26 scrums, 200 rucks and mauls, and 270 tackles. In rugby league, the scrums are fewer and less contested, and rucks and mauls non-existent. Tackles, while less frequent, are no less fierce. In 2011, Sydney researchers...
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...
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...
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...