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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...everyday realities of university life. One of the main vehicles for thinking about this is the academic self. As observed by the editors, ‘an academic in a cloister is a very different creature from one on a stage’ (6). Though blogs, Twitter and Facebook are performative spaces, academic use and appropriation of these stages are diverse. Chapter Two’s study of PhD...
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Life After Death
History & The Arts

Life After Death

...everyday lives, few of us are experts in things like electrics or telecommunications equipment, not to mention the economic system or global climate issues. At the same time, there is a popular distrust of many ‘experts,’ with fears that there are hidden or self-serving agendas at play. How do we make decisions from a position of ignorance? How can we evaluate beliefs...
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Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...everyday life has immense benefits to our physical and mental health. I have already mentioned that our organs and tissues need regular input in terms of blood which brings all the necessary nutrients and oxygen. This is also great for our muscles, our liver, kidneys, hearts and lungs. As I will explain later, breathing regularly while moving is crucial too. With regular...
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Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...everyday transactions with the environment, which can build up as accumulative stressors (Holm and Holroyd, 1992). These include 117 items about health, health of a family member, losing things, finances, traffic, too many things to do, interrupted sleep and physical appearance (Kanner et al., 1981). Kanner et al. (1981) found that the DHS tended to be a more accurate...
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Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...everyday lives. Early Modern period revelled in the variety of material things available to them and put them to a wide range of uses. Studying an object can take the historian in a lot of different directions – you might study the materials it was made of, how they were made, why people bought them and how they were used. The possibilities are endless. I always find...
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Raising awareness and support for men
Health, Sports & Psychology

Raising awareness and support for men

...everyday, working-class men who are living each day and getting by. To celebrate men’s positive contributions to society: this includes their contribution to the community, to families, marriage, childcare, and to the environment. This might be about encouraging men to teach the boys in their lives the values, character and responsibilities of being a considered and...
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UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...English language skills that prevent them from applying for jobs elsewhere. Beyond this group of workers, there appears to be a more vulnerable segment, mostly because they have no or insufficient rights to work full-time. They tend to work at lower wage rates and under worse conditions than the core group of workers. Both these groups produce garments in factories that...
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The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup
Science, Maths & Technology

The civil engineer's fear of the penalty shoot-out: Predicting the World Cup

...English Premier League, won 34 individual awards this season. They include the Premier League Golden Boot winner after scoring a record 32 goals in 36 league games. With him there, Egypt must therefore be a good team. Less well known perhaps is that Tunisia are currently ranked 21st and Egypt 46th. Going for Egypt is an example of decisions that are based on what...
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