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Kit de Waal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/19/kit-de-waal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2022 Our own writer in residence reads her autobiography Without Warning and Only Sometimes Listen on BBC Radio 4 or Box of Broadcasts . Available in the UK only.
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Alternative to open heart surgery just as effective for patients with common heart condition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/tavi-results
Leicester researchers have shown, in a ground-breaking study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), how a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is just as effective as conventional open-heart surgery.
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Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2
New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...
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Quality of Life in the EU
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/quality-of-life-in-the-eu/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 Eurostat has just released a new series of statistics which present a multi-dimensional measure of well-being, considering social as well as economic factors.
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Sight and Sound – electronically
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/24/sight-and-sound-electronically/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2011 We now have access to Sight and Sound electronically from 01/01/2000 to date.
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Greening Italy: Literature and the Environmental Imagination
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/it3143
Module code: IT3143 This module explores how contemporary Italian writers, artists and filmmakers engage with place and with ecological and environmental issues as a means of reflecting on the present and imagining the future.
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Greening Italy: Literature and the Environmental Imagination
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/it3143
Module code: IT3143 This module explores how contemporary Italian writers, artists and filmmakers engage with place and with ecological and environmental issues as a means of reflecting on the present and imagining the future.
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Ecology, Climate and Land-use processes of the Amazon Tropical Forests
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy3440
Module code: GY3440 This module focusses on modern concepts in ecology and the connections between climate and land-use processes. The module aims to understand, quantify and predict the future of the Amazon forests in a changing world.
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Ecology, Climate and Land-use processes of the Amazon Tropical Forests
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/gy3440
Module code: GY3440 This module focusses on modern concepts in ecology and the connections between climate and land-use processes. The module aims to understand, quantify and predict the future of the Amazon forests in a changing world.
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Economics professor discusses research into what makes people vote in elections
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/economics-professor-discusses-research-into-what-makes-people-vote-in-elections
Professor Eyal Winter from the School of Business has been featured in a ScienceNews article discussing how voter turnout increases when polling numbers are close. Research conducted by Professor Winter and colleagues in 2006 looked at U.S. gubernatorial races from 1990 to 2005.