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dataUNODC (Drugs and Crime statistics)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/08/dataunodc-drugs-and-crime-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2020 The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) new data portal makes its reliable global data on drugs and crime easier to access and visualise.
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Bloomberg: Studying Equity Volume Patterns for Clues on Price Direction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/22/bloomberg-studying-equity-volume-patterns-for-clues-on-price-direction/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2013 Global equity markets rallied this month after a contraction in June. Trading volume can indicate whether these price movements will hold.
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How much fake news is there?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/how-much-fake-news-is-there/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 A frightening new report from the Oxford Internet institute has a Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation.
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What is the world’s most influential think tank?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/what-is-the-worlds-most-influential-think-tank/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 Find out by checking the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the University of Pennsylvania .
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Are millennial workers ‘lazy’ ‘digital addicts’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/are-millennial-workers-lazy-digital-addicts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 These are some of the myths challenged by the IBM global study of over 1,700 workers born between 1980-1993.
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Health Databases from WHO
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/health-databases-from-who/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 WHO Europe new statistical database- HlthRes-DB Contains nearly 200 indicators on human and technical resources for health covering 53 states from WHO Europe.
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World Development Indicators 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/world-development-indicators-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Now available from the World Bank: http://data.worldbank.
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Gender GEDI Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/gender-gedi-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 2014 Gender-GEDI Index Executive Report The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute has produced a 30-country analysis of the conditions that foster high-potential female...
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Simulation Centre
https://le.ac.uk/medicine/about/facilities/simulation-centre
The Simulation Centre at Leicester is a multi-million pound project, combining the current clinical skills centre (CSC) with a state-of-the-art Simulation Centre. We aim to improve patient safety through the incorporation of simulation-based training (SBT) into medical courses.
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Stargazing Live 2015 astronomers mark solar eclipse
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/astronomers-to-shed-light-on-space-discoveries-to-mark-spectacular-solar-eclipse
Our space scientists will be taking part in a spectacular event to mark the solar eclipse on 20 March by demonstrating some of their out-of-this-world research – including how they located and identified Beagle 2 on Mars.