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The weekend effect in hospitals: Why we need evidence to underpin policy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2016/09/16/the-weekend-effect/
Professor Julian Bion and Dr Carolyn Tarrant discuss the complex evidence behind the weekend effect and efforts to implement 7-Day Services, including results from the HiSLAC study, and emphasise the importance of using independent evidence to underpin healthcare policy.
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Real Man, Real Emotions? The Truth behind Nigel Farage’s Cocksure Campaigning
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/04/29/real-man-real-emotions-the-truth-behind-nigel-farages-cocksure-campaigning/
Posted by jcromby in School of Business Blog on April 29, 2015 Recently appointed Reader in Psychology at the School, John Cromb y , provides a disturbingly plausible account of why Nigel Farage’s rhetoric has been so successful.
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University researchers show juices from damaged salad leaves massively stimulate Salmonella growth and salad leaf colonisation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/university-researchers-show-juices-from-damaged-salad-leaves-massively-stimulate-salmonella-growth-and-salad-leaf-colonisation
Investigations by Leicester microbiologists have revealed that just a small amount of damage to salad leaves can massively stimulate the presence of the food poisoning bug Salmonella in ready-prepared salad leaves.
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Our research culture
https://le.ac.uk/research/culture
Research is at the heart of everything that we do at the University of Leicester, and is core to our institutional strategy. We will create a positive and enabling research environment, delivering world-leading research that transforms lives.
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Changing the face of British sport governance
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/12-sporting-equals
Sporting Equals and the University of Leicester are partners in a New LeaderBoard Academy in Sports Governance
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Fluorescent Deep Space Petri-Pod
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/space-projects-instrumentation/projects/fdspp
The ‘Fluorescent Deep Space Petri-Pod’ (FDSPP) is a miniaturised hardware solution for performing remotely operated biological experimentation on multiple types of organisms, via fluorescent and white light imaging capabilities in deep space
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Tuberculosis
https://le.ac.uk/lung-health/research/tuberculosis
Specialists Barer Carr Garton Haldar Mukamolova O’Hare Woltmann Leicester has a large number of tuberculosis patients and so both the diagnosis, management and pathogenesis of TB are important priorities for the theme.
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Nagoya Protocol
https://le.ac.uk/research/regi/ethics-and-integrity/nagoya-protocol
Every country has rights over the genetic resources that exist within its borders, including animals, plants and organisms.
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Almost half of NHS workers surveyed have left their role or are considering it
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/nhs-attrition
A significant number of healthcare workers have either left their job or considered changing it because they feel undervalued or have experienced discrimination according to a new study led by the University of Leicester in collaboration with University College London (UCL).
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Common childhood eye disorder is best treated by patching earlier, new study shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/lazy-eye
Most children with a ‘lazy eye’ benefit from earlier patching, new research by University of Leicester experts show