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Whats the difference between margin trading and gambling
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/whats-the-difference-between-margin-trading-and-gambling
Margin trading allows an individual to borrow money from a broker in order to take much larger positions in financial assets and therefore multiply the size of their gains and losses.
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Childrens experiences and responses to war in the nineteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/children2019s-experiences-and-responses-to-war-in-the-nineteenth-century
What we can learn about war from the writing of child soldiers in the nineteenth century will be explored in a BBC Radio 3 Essay on Thursday 22 March with Dr Emma Butcher from our School of Arts.
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Automata, Languages and Computation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/co2011
Module code: CO2011 In this module we will be primarily concerned with what computers can do. It turns out that there are problems that cannot be solved by computer or, at least, by machines corresponding to the mathematical models of computers we shall present.
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Blooming crocuses usher in spring at popular Botanic Garden events
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/blooming-crocuses-usher-in-spring-at-popular-botanic-garden-events
The University’s Botanic Garden will once again usher in springtime with two Crocus Sunday events showcasing the early springtime blooming of the flower.
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University wins support for out of the box ideas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/university-wins-support-for-2018out-of-the-box2019-ideas
Research into new drugs at the University has been boosted by government money. The University has been successful in obtaining grants totalling £1M from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to support research into new medicines.
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Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/courses-for-teachers/celta
CELTA courses at the University of Leicester. Learn to teach English as your ticket around the world.
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The Lives of Others, Staff Blogs, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/performingcitizenship/2015/03/26/the-lives-of-others/
Posted by Maria Rovisco in Performing Citizenship on March 26, 2015 The Lives of Others – A commentary on Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering (2006) This is a short commentary that I have written for the workshop ‘Bordering Strangeness’ organized by Chris Rumford...
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Using Diamond X-Rays to Explore Asteroid Surfaces
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/09/using-diamond-x-rays-to-explore-asteroid-surfaces/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 9 April 2021 In a new paper, Leicester’s Leon Hicks and colleagues used synchrotron X-rays to investigate how space weathering has altered the iron composition of samples from the Itokawa asteroid.
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Town Commemorates Convicts, by Minako Sakata
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/29/town-commemorate-convicts-by-minako-sakata/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on September 29, 2014 At the end of August, I visited Tsukigata, a small town in Hokkaido where the Kabato Central Prison was located from 1881 to 1919.
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Happy International Archives Day 2018!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/happy-international-archives-day-2018/
Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2018 The University records manager, David Jenkins, and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) thought we’d take the opportunity to flag up IAD18 and explain a bit about what we do all day! On the 9th of...