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Smart cities for all toolkit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/smart-cities-for-all-toolkit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 Just launched by G3ict and World a free toolkit which aims to eliminate the digital divide for persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities programs worldwide.
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Childrens purchasing behaviour significantly impacted by social media and mobile apps research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/children2019s-purchasing-behaviour-2018significantly-impacted2019-by-social-media-and-mobile-apps-research-shows
Exposure to prompts to make in-app purchases in mobile games has a significant impact on children’s purchasing behaviour, according to a recent study funded by the European Commission involving Dr Giuseppe Veltri, who now works at the Department of Media Communication.
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Invisible Hands, and the Market as Storytelling
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/10/23/invisible-hands-and-the-market-as-storytelling/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on October 23, 2017 Valerie Hamilton, co-author of Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England with Martin Parker from ULSB muses on the way in which Adam Smith and subsequent economists have used the famous metaphor of an...
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About
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/about/
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse is the research blog sharing findings and research experiences from the Wellcome Trust funded project investigating the social, symbolic, medicinal, judicial, political and scientific power of the criminal corpse.
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Sociology BA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/sociology-ba/2026
Leicester is one of the best cities to study Sociology. On this degree you’ll gain a thorough grounding in research methods and theory, across a wide range of modules.
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The right rubber for the job
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/the-importance-of-using-the-right-rubber-for-the-job
Researchers from the Department of Geology have discovered that when it comes to rubbers, textured surfaces, and reproduction, more fluid formulations have greater reliability than those that are thick and sticky.
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Booker Prize winner 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/14/booker-prize-winner-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 14, 2024 Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on winning the Booker Prize with Orbital. Find it in the library Reading Lounge (Ground floor) at 823.92 HAR.
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About Arch-I-Scan
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/arch-i-scan/about-arch-i-scan
Discover more about Arch-I-Scan Ceramic finewares are the most essential evidence for investigating the socio-cultural practices of eating and drinking across the Roman world and constitute some of the most extensive archaeological remains.
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Spotlight on SLAIDER -- Self-learning AI-based digital twins for accelerating clinical care in respiratory emergency admissions
https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/life-health-sciences/slaider
SLAIDER is a £620k project running from 2023 to 2025 and funded by the EPSRC. To provide more context on the project, the team was asked several questions about SLAIDER and how it could impact real-life clinical care.
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University provides opportunity for children to win photograph taken from space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/university-provides-opportunity-for-children-to-win-photograph-taken-from-space
Children around the UK are invited to enter a competition organised by the University's National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the UK’s leading research centre for studying our planet using observations from satellites in space, to win a large photograph of Earth...