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Treating the patient, not the disease
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/institute-genetics-cancer/2021/12/16/treating-the-patient-not-the-disease/
Background 42,886. This is the number of new bowel cancer cases in the UK every single year. One would think that the immense advancements in healthcare and the eradication of a plethora of diseases through vaccination would have also led to the “cancer cure.” While this sounds idealistic to the ears of a scientist, aware […]
Poland General collection
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digitalislameurope/research-findings/archiving/collections/poland-collection/
POLAND COLLECTION (in English and Polish) Poland Collection Mateusz Chudziak (Polish Team) Iga Wermińska-Wiśnicka (Polish Team) Gary R Bunt (UK Team and Website data analysis) Anna Grasso (UK Team and Website data analysis) This archive is part of the Digital Islam Across Europe project’s collection. One of the DigitIslam project outputs focuses on website data […]
Digimap for Schools wins Gold Award
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digimap/2011/04/14/digimap-for-schools-wins-gold-award/
EDINA are delighted to announce that the new Digimap for Schools service has been awarded the GOLD Certificate for the best overall resource in the the Geographical Association’s 2011 Publishers’ Awards. The GA Publishers’ Awards aim to recognise material which is likely to make a significant contribution to geography in primary schools, secondary schools or […]
Project 3: Research and sound exploring
First, I want to highlight two art works that I found interesting and inspiring: London Unseen in London Sound Survey https://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/london_unseen/pitcairn This consist of two sound maps where the sounds are associated with images. The first map associates the sounds with icons and the second does the same with bees on a beehive. I found […]
【BAYES COFFEE HOUSE TECH TALK SERIES】From Generalized to Personalized: Leveraging LLMs for Conversational Search
Dr. Shubham Chatterjee from the University of Edinburgh will give a talk, in person and online, for the Coffee House Tech Talk Series. Details of the talk are below. Title: From Generalized to Personalized: Leveraging LLMs for Conversational Search Speaker: Dr. Shubham Chatterjee University of […]
Welcome to the mini-conference
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edacab/2021/01/18/list-of-presenters-for-the-mini-conference/
This includes a list of presenters and instructions for how to interact with the presentations and the presenters. To view the videos, you’ll need the conference password. Please contact either Dr Tom Reynolds (Edinburgh) or Dr Yang Yang (Chongqing), and they can share the password with you. Please do not share the videos outside the […]
In the future, we will all be...
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/aburford/2016/10/24/in-the-future-we-will-all-be/
I’ve been reading Frey, Carl Benedikt and Osborne, Michael A. (2013) The Future of Employment: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation? I am quite pleased with the graph I scribbled on the paper as a neat summary of the main thrust of the argument. The article reminded me of a recent headline I saw: 65% of today’s schoolchildren […]
Secondary Analyses of Health Behaviours of School Children (HBSC) Data
In addition to its programme of competitively awarded seed grants, SCPHRP commissioned seven needs-based projects during 2008 ’ 2012, with a focus on the development of improved data-systems for sensitive population-level monitoring of overall changes in Scottish health status, and trends and patterns in health inequalities, particularly by socio-economic status (SES). Following on from the […]
Do changes in job control predict differences in health status? Results from a longitudinal national survey of Canadians
Objective: To examine the effect of changes in job control on health behaviors, psychological distress and health status. Methods: Using a path analysis model, we examined the effects of change in job control over a 4-year period on levels of physical activity, smoking, and psychological distress; and on self-rated health over an additional 2 years, […]
Abandoned Site of IBM Plant in Greenock 1953 - 2016
‘Government development agencies saw electronics manufacturing as being a positive replacement for people made redundant through traditional Scottish industry closures, such as shipbuilding and mining, as the associated training and reskilling was relatively easy to achieve.’
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