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Twenty-First Century Global Fiction
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3200
Module code: EN3200 What characterises twenty-first century fiction? Does it have distinctive formal and thematic features? What does it tell us about the times we are living in? As Peter Boxall notes, the contemporary moment is ‘always difficult to bring into focus, and...
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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/146/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Why Academics Need to Engage in Public and Political Discourse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/08/04/why-academics-need-to-engage-in-public-and-political-discourse/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2020 People often struggle to distinguish between the advice of a charlatan and an expert, meaning that academic input into public discussions of important issues such as COVID-19 is vital, writes Aris...
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Financial Derivatives
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/af3070
Module code: AF3070 Financial derivative are financial contracts between two parties that obtains its value from underlying assets, interest rates or security to allow the individual parties to predict their future cash flow.
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Financial Derivatives
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ec3070
Module code: EC3070 Financial derivative are financial contracts between two parties that obtains its value from underlying assets, interest rates or security to allow the individual parties to predict their future cash flow.
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Responsible consumption
https://le.ac.uk/sustainability/impacts/responsible-consumption
Learn how we are reducing our resource and water consumption, and reusing resources whenever possible, incorporating circular economy principles.
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2023 news
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/news/2023
Please see below for articles published in 2023. Pneumococcal capsule expression is controlled through a conserved, distal cis-regulatory element during infection David G. Glanville; Ozcan Gazioglu; Michela Marra; Valerie L. Tokars; Tatyana Kushnir; Medhanie Habtom; Nicholas J.
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New research could help detect early signs of heart failure in diabetic patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/diabetes-heart-failure
New research in Leicester, which has been funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), could help understand how heart failure can develop in people living with Type 2 diabetes. An estimated 3.7 million people in the UK are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
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Cosmic Sociology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sy2100
Module code: SY2100 Most aspects of social life and human endeavour have been subject to sociological analysis. However, one under-explored area in terms of sociological enquiry is space, space exploration and the universe.
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Leicester astronomers comment as Juno arrives at Jupiter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/leicester-astronomers-comment-as-juno-arrives-at-jupiter
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit this morning during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 pm.