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Bournemouth University Professor of Nursing, Elizabeth Rosser, will focus on the importance of education in the future of the nursing profession when she delivers her Professorial Inaugural Lecture at BU on 23 March. Professor Rosser's lecture, entitled "Too clever to care? Education to lead Nursing in a changing world", represents a journey of learning, research and enquiry. Presented in two main portfolios of work of education for practice, and workforce development in Brazil and the...
SEATTLE, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced the that the Arts University College at Bournemouth, an accredited 'Centre of Excellence' in film education and training and one of only seven such institutions in the United Kingdom (UK), has deployed Isilon IQ to power high-performance rendering and editing applications for its Skillset Screen and Media Academy, enabling the transition to a high-definition (HD) digital film environment. With Isilon...
Monkey species will become "˜increasingly at risk of extinction' because of global warming, according to new research. It reveals that populations of monkeys and apes in Africa that depend largely on a diet of leaves may be wiped out by a rise in annual temperatures of two degrees Celsius. The study by researchers from Bournemouth University, Roehampton University and the University of Oxford suggests that the species most at risk are the already endangered gorillas and colobine monkeys.The...
Research co-authored by Bournemouth University (BU) Professor Adrian Newton and published in the leading journal Science this week shows that ecological restoration in areas of environmental degradation can help reverse global biodiversity losses, as well as promoting recovery of ecosystem services.However the research also showed that measures of biodiversity and ecosystem services are higher in pristine land, freshwater and marine systems than in restored systems.Examples of ecosystem...
Bournemouth University's (BU) pioneering orthosis research and its use in the rehabilitation of stroke patients, was the key discussion among the academic and medical professions at the University recently.A dissemination workshop, entitled "˜Functional rehabilitation of the motor impaired: robotics and new directions', was led by BU's Dr Venky Dubey. Dr Dubey's research specializes in the creation of a gravity-balancing orthosis to help older people regain or enhance the use of their...
A breakthrough at the Stonehenge excavation site could finally explain why the site was built.The ambiguous arrangement is composed of large sandstone blocks surrounded by smaller bluestones.Archaeologists have broken through to a layer of ground at the site containing sockets that once held bluestones"”the smaller stones that formed the site's original structure, most of which were missing or uprooted. Stonehenge experts Tim Darvill, president of the Society of Antiquaries, and Geoff...
Researchers began their two-week long excavation at Stonehenge on Monday in the first dig at the site since 1964. Throughout history Stonehenge's great mystery has bred an abundance of theories of its origin. Some claim the site served ceremonial purposes while other, more eccentric beliefs link the monument to extraterrestrial life. Stonehenge experts Tim Darvill, president of the Society of Antiquaries, and Geoff Wainwright, archaeology professor at Bournemouth University, intend to set the...
