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Nuclear expert sheds light on ‘War Factories’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/war-factories
A nuclear expert from the University of Leicester has featured on a new UKTV documentary covering the industry of conflict. Andrew Futter is a Professor of International Politics and a leading academic in the politics of nuclear weapons.
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White Dwarfs
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/astrophysics/white-dwarfs
White dwarfs are the end products of the life cycles of more than 90% of all stars. This makes them important laboratories for studying stellar evolution and the behaviour of matter at extremes of temperature and density.
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Visualising Information for Advocacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/visualising-information-for-advocacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 https://visualisingadvocacy.
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Potential new worlds rescued by citizens of Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/planet-hunters
Team of astronomers at University of Leicester are following up on potential planet discoveries by citizen scientists
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Aftermath
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/aftermath
Browse interviews with residents of Leicestershire discussing the aftermath of the First World War, including getting back to work, demobilsation and politics.
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Suicides: UK prisons and beyond
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/27/suicides-uk-prisons-and-beyond/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2017 Shocking news this week that the Ministry of Justice has recorded high levels of suicide in prison and an internal enquiry will be launched.
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Google geospatial specialist to lead University of Leicester workshop
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/google-geospatial-specialist-to-lead-university-of-leicester-workshop
A leading specialist from Google is set to address East Midlands’ businesses with hands-on demonstrations of how to make the best use of geographic and spatial data at the City Rooms, Leicester on 12 March 2015 from 9.30am to 4.
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Marketing Intelligence
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mn2026
Module code: MN2026 Understanding marketing intelligence is crucial to successful marketing decision-making. The study of marketing intelligence encompasses both the design of market/marketing research and the analysis of data.
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Statistical Computing and Inference
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/md7453
Module code: MD7453 This module provides an overview of approaches to statistical inference, both likelihood and Bayesian, applied to medical/health data and the use of statistical software packages.
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Advanced Statistical Modelling (Part-time)
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/md7468
Module code: MD7468 Generalised linear models This module will start by introducing the theory of generalized linear models (GLMs) in terms of exponential family of distributions and discussing special cases of GLMs, such as normal, Poisson or binomial regression.