Sites of the week 29th August 2020
Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites of the week
Covid-19
Still updating the blog with quick links to key papers
this week return to school
Covid-ARC - Covid data archive
Created by the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California
aims to provide a central store of various types of data relating to the spread and control of covid 19. Also includes tools for researchers to visualize and analyze various types of data. Categories include: EEG brain function, imaging and behavioural and clincal data and demographic and geolocation.
Hand in Hand geospatial platform (FAO)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently launched the Hand-in-Hand geospatial platform data on food, agriculture, socioeconomics, and natural resources to help strengthen evidence-based decision-making in the food and agriculture sectors. It also includes information on COVID-19’s impact on food and agriculture. The platform can be used by anyone and its application will in turn help data-driven and evidence-based decision-making in food and agriculture.it includes food security indicators by nation
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently launched the Hand-in-Hand geospatial platform data on food, agriculture, socioeconomics, and natural resources to help strengthen evidence-based decision-making in the food and agriculture sectors. It also includes information on COVID-19’s impact on food and agriculture. The platform can be used by anyone and its application will in turn help data-driven and evidence-based decision-making in food and agriculture.it includes food security indicators by nation
National dog day for social scientists
26th August is National Dog day
How many dogs are there in the UK?
According to RSPCA data in 2019. Dogs are the most popular pets
26% of the UK adult population have a dog with an estimated population of 9.9 million pet dogs
According to Statista this isnt the highest percentage as Germany is the nation with the most pet dogs in Europe
This makes a growing market for pet productsStatista quotes the market for dog treats in the uk as 462 million pounds in 2018. A rise from 268 in 2007.
Perhaps this contributes to the high cost of dog ownership as they give the figure of minimum annual costs of keeping a dog ranging from 840 British pounds for a small dog to 1,260 pounds for a large dog.
The economic outcome of pet ownership for the economy as a whole may be beneficial according to this fascinating article from the Adam Smith Institute in 2018 which considers the economic savings on healthcare .This summary from CABI also gives an abstract of the findings of a companion animal economics report
To get some facts on if dog ownership try searching Pubmed for medical articles.
This systematic review on dog ownership and survival examined
Studies published between 1950 and May 24, 2019. It found Dog ownership is associated with lower risk of death over the long term, which is possibly driven by a reduction in cardiovascular mortality. Dog ownership can also be associated with more physical exercise and contact with nature
other studies have focussed on mental health, an Australian study Longitudinal evidence of the impact of dog ownership and dog walking on mental health
How many dogs are there in the UK?
According to RSPCA data in 2019. Dogs are the most popular pets
26% of the UK adult population have a dog with an estimated population of 9.9 million pet dogs
According to Statista this isnt the highest percentage as Germany is the nation with the most pet dogs in Europe
This makes a growing market for pet productsStatista quotes the market for dog treats in the uk as 462 million pounds in 2018. A rise from 268 in 2007.
Perhaps this contributes to the high cost of dog ownership as they give the figure of minimum annual costs of keeping a dog ranging from 840 British pounds for a small dog to 1,260 pounds for a large dog.
The economic outcome of pet ownership for the economy as a whole may be beneficial according to this fascinating article from the Adam Smith Institute in 2018 which considers the economic savings on healthcare .This summary from CABI also gives an abstract of the findings of a companion animal economics report
To get some facts on if dog ownership try searching Pubmed for medical articles.
This systematic review on dog ownership and survival examined
Studies published between 1950 and May 24, 2019. It found Dog ownership is associated with lower risk of death over the long term, which is possibly driven by a reduction in cardiovascular mortality. Dog ownership can also be associated with more physical exercise and contact with nature
other studies have focussed on mental health, an Australian study Longitudinal evidence of the impact of dog ownership and dog walking on mental health
UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteerism
The UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteering is a great new resource it includes a volunteering database containing country laws, policies, statistical measurement. An evidence library of full text reports, reviews and datasets on key themes such as gender and volunteering, humanitarian volunteers, youth, climate, peacekeeping
The UNV Knowledge Portal on Volunteering is a great new resource it includes a volunteering database containing country laws, policies, statistical measurement. An evidence library of full text reports, reviews and datasets on key themes such as gender and volunteering, humanitarian volunteers, youth, climate, peacekeeping
“Future Themes and Forecasts for Research Libraries and Emerging Technologies”
Association Research Libraries (USA) . They include predictions on technology and ways of working in a post covid world
Digitisation and conservation of endangered paper records of the British Indian
Association (EAP922)
Another great endangered archives project led by the British Library. The British Indian Association, founded in 1851, was one of the earliest political associations of Indian colonial subjects. Its holdings include records of its own history and activities as well as other issues, viz. correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports submitted to various bodies and legal documents. There are thousands of v valuable online papers to browse.
Collecting and empire –British Museum trail
British Museum trail designed to support a physical museum, tour, this resource form the British Library provides insight ionto the way the institution is engaging with it s 'colonial history' of collecting items from former empires. It spotlights the histories of a number of items form its collections and their relationship to the history and exploitation of the slave trade and the British empire
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