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Which areas of the UK are the most vibrant (economically)?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/which-areas-of-the-uk-are-the-most-vibrant-economically/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 Find out by consulting The Vibrant Economy Index, a new resource launched recently by Grant Thornton which aims to measure and rank the economic and social well being or vibrancy of...
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Bloomberg: currency
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/08/bloomberg-currency/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 8, 2013 Implied volatility in some major currency pairs has fallen below realized volatility. The dollar-yen 6-month realized versus implied spread was the widest in four years on Sept. 26.
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World ranking of prosperity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/world-ranking-of-prosperity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index is an annual ranking of 142 countries.
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Report the Abuse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/report-the-abuse/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 A recently launched NGO which seeks to expose crimes and supports victims of abuse within the humanitarian and development aid sector.
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Google Transparency Report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/google-transparency-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/ The official Google website which provides 6-monthly reports on requests from governments to remove content.
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LGBT+ public officials
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/06/lgbt-public-officials/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2022 Queer politics databases from Princeton University New Queer Politics website provides data on openly self-declared LGBT+ officials worldwide.
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...
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Backward schedule your Christmas turkey (under finite resources)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/12/06/backward-schedule-your-christmas-turkey-under-finite-resources/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on December 6, 2017 In this week’s blog, Dr Nicola Bateman, Associate Professor Operations Management ( nab34@le.ac.uk ) uses operations management to get all the bits of your Christmas dinner on the table at the same time.
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Andrew Dunn: Page 210
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/210/
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/211/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester