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University of Leicester co-launches International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/avoidable-deaths
The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) has launched the first International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths today (13 March) in Izumiotsu, Japan. International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths hopes to raise the visibility of disaster deaths.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good idea to discuss topics such as sex, rape and pornography in classrooms in order to properly educate young people about...
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About
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/about/
Consuming Authenticities is the project blog of an AHRC-funded research project “Consuming Authenticities: Time, Place and the Past in the Construction of ‘Authentic’ Foods and Drinks” involving scholars from the Universities of Leicester, Exeter, Wales Trinity St David, and...
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Bloomberg: geographical distribution of revenue
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/28/bloomberg-geographical-distribution-of-revenue/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 28, 2013 Analysing a company’s revenue geographic breakdown is interesting angle to predict future strategic development. Find case studies using the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.
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The Cultural Heritage of LGBT Activism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/the-cultural-heritage-of-lgbt-activism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 A new online exhibit from Europeana. It gives a short history of Pride festivals using items such as photos and badges from Europe’s leading library and museum collections.
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Nikon microscope 4
https://le.ac.uk/cbs/facilities/aif/equipment/inverted-widefield-microscopes/nikon-4
See more about the Nikon microscope 4 that is part of the Advanced Imaging Facility.
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Video interview with street artist released
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/video-interview-with-street-artist-released
A video interview with street artist Stewy, who created artwork in our University Library, has now been released. Stewy created his image of Orton in The Little Theatre and in the Library to mark the 50th anniversary of Orton’s death.
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Inactive adults urged to get moving to avoid developing type 2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/inactive-adults-told-to-2018get-moving2019
People in Leicestershire are being ‘urged to get moving or risk jeopardising their health’, after research revealed adults in the county are among the most inactive in England.
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UK NHS Trust and Health Board stillbirth and neonatal death rates published
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/uk-nhs-trust-and-health-board-stillbirth-and-neonatal-death-rates-published
Today MBRRACE-UK is publishing the first perinatal mortality surveillance report for Trusts and Health Boards in the UK.
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Walking pace found to strongly predict risk of death
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/walking-pace-mortality-risk-leicester
A new analysis of more than 400,000 UK adults by University of Leicester experts has found that easy to collect measures of physical health, particularly how fast someone walks, can significantly improve predictions of mortality risk.