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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...work mainly with unstructured data, in other words with data that are not structured in terms of analytic categories at the point of collection. As a result, they tend to use the following sorts of material: Documents of various kinds: official or personal, paper-based or electronic, consisting of text and/or images, extant or elicited. Observational data produced through...

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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...work more widely. Felix Moronta explains how...[Red LBC logo] How much does the news media cover scientific advances in Latin America? The bloggers at the online project Ciencia latina (“Latin Science”) say it's not enough. As much in the regional media as in the international, the presence of Latin America in the world better known as scientific progress is still...

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Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Gary Slapper

...work in the media raised the profile of law at the OU and engaged new audiences through the partnership with the BBC in series such as ‘The Barristers’. The law programme at the OU also challenged and influenced the sector in rethinking legal education. Gary played an instrumental role in this. He is remembered fondly by colleagues as someone who was ‘one of those...

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Article 5 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things to know about being disabled and LGBTQ

...working things out [multiple clocks depicting time] Finding out what you desire can be difficult – and this is made a lot harder if you were brought up with the people around you assuming that you didn’t have any desires! Remember that there’s no rush. Taking the time to know yourself is really worthwhile, and will help you establish happy relationships in the...

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Article 10 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

Electrical Discharge Wire Cutting (EDWC) and Sawing (EDS)

...work as well as long production runs. Computer controlled programmes used for prototype work are easily adapted for production runs. Frequently used for cutting electrodes for EDM. Machines with control of up to five axes are available with integral units for producing the “starter or threader hole” which is often required. Currents 1–32 A; voltages 55–60 V;...

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Article 5 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Migrant parenting

...working opportunities were limited for them, many found the way to migrate on a more permanent basis. With the expansion of the European Union in 2004, eight Central and Eastern European countries joined the Union – the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia. This brought in the opportunity for free movement and the right to...

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Article 5 mins

History & The Arts

Arendt

...works for socialist and Zionist causes; arrest in Berlin; flight to Paris, where she undertakes social work preparing young Jews for a new life in Palestine 1935 first visit to Jerusalem 1940 internment in France 1941 refugee in New York, working as journalist and editor 1951 publishes The Origins of Totalitarianism; becomes an American citizen 1958 publishes The Human...

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Article 5 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...works, or proposing a new universal phonetic alphabet, Young was experimenting with the diffraction of light by narrow apertures and the interference of light due to reflection by thin films. His observations of coloured fringes in these experiments demonstrated that light must travel from place to place in the form of a wave, and the different colours comprising white...

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