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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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How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...analysis and designing with an acceptance of change, uncertainty and the need for continuous learning with diverse knowledge holders. Resilience also invites us to design with humility and anticipation in the destabilised biosphere. References Anderies, J.M. and Folke, C. (2024) ‘Connecting human behaviour, meaning and nature’, Phil. Trans. R. Soc, B 379: 20220314....
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Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression
Languages

Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression

...analysis software Wmatrix, I was able to show for example, that she statistically significantly overused words and expressions that suggested a categorical, polarized world view (e.g. always, never, everyone, nobody, all, nothing etc.). She seemed to see the world in stark contrasts more than others. At the same time, she also overused first-person pronouns like I, me,...
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Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?

...analysis in around 2029. This mission is likely to revolutionise our understanding of inner Solar System dynamics and might finally put to bed the argument about the origin of Phobos. As a bonus, these samples might even contain evidence of past Martian life! It is thought that large impacts on Mars could throw up material into space that eventually ends up raining down...
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Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...analysis in his work, he drew on quantitative rather than qualitative data. You may also have been interested in his argument that if he were undertaking this analysis today, he would use both quantitative and qualitative data to explore the historical resources. In our reading of this article,we, the authors of this course were struck by Graff’s comments that implied...
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The emergence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Health, Sports & Psychology

The emergence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

...data yet to support this theory. Are there any treatments? There is no current treatment or vaccination available for MERS-CoV, but, with the continuation of the outbreak, identification of therapeutics is a top priority. A version of this article was originally published on PLOS Pathogens in 2013. For an up-to-date view of the identification and emerging treatments,...
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