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Dataset of interview and questionnaire data resulting from the age 24 wave with the original participants of the Manchester Language Study in adulthood (24 years of age). The Manchester Language Study is a longitudinal study of a national random sample of all children who were attending language units. The study covers a 20 year period. It began in 1995 when the children were 7 years of age. In this young adulthood phase we undertook interviews with 84 participants with a history of Language Impairment (LI) and a comparison group of 88 age-matched peers (AMP) who had no history of special educational needs or speech and language therapy provision. We also collected data via questionnaires from a close relative or friend they nominated themselves. Missing values(216) are dropouts from previous waves. The interviews were extensive covering personal and social functioning and societal engagement. The personal domain includes general health (weight, exercise, leisure, diet, smoking, alcohol, drugs), mental health (anxiety, depression) and educational/training qualifications. The social domain includes personal relationships (marital status, children, friendships, stable partnerships, parents, siblings) and social adjustment (aggression/criminality). Societal engagement includes employment (including occupational adjustment), independence (living context, transport, driving), finances (banking, financial literacy, debt, gambling, receipt of benefits) civic participation (voting, volunteering), TV viewing and new media use (computers, mobile phones). Research activity includes (1) the identification of the range and profile of personal, social and societal (PSS) functioning in young adults with a history of LI, (2) the examination of concurrent relationships among individuals’ attributes, environmental factors and PSS functioning leading to a number of discoveries, for example, the discovery that prosociality is one of the key protective factor associated with most areas of functioning in individuals with LI in young adulthood and (3) the identification of predictors of distinct development pathways of adjustment in social, emotional, behavioural and employment/education outcomes in young adulthood.

The data set includes data for anisotropic ice templated collagen scaffold production including temperature and strut orientation data. Data was collected via uCT imaging of ice templated collagen scaffolds. Data was also collected via time dependent thermocouple readings and compression testing. The data set also includes simulation results from a 3D diffusion model of water solidification designed to mimic the experimental set up for ice templating. Data was exported from comsol. SMB and REC gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the British Heart Foundation [Grants NH/11/1/28922, RG/15/4/31268 and SP/15/7/31561] and EPSRC [Grant EP/N019938/1]. JC gratefully acknowledges support from by the Gates Cambridge Trust, 33 Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UW UK. AH and REC acknowledge support from ERC [Advanced Grant 320598 3D-E].

The Visean stage of the Mississippian was a time of rapid tetrapod diversification which marks the earliest appearance of temnospondyls, microsaurs and the limbless aïstopods. Tetrapod finds from this stage are very rare and only a dozen sites are known worldwide. Here we announce the discovery of a new Visean site in Fife, Scotland, of Asbian age, and from it describe a new species of the baphetoid Spathicephalus. These specimens represent the oldest known baphetoid by three million years, yet belong to the most specialized members of the clade. Unlike typical baphetoids with large marginal teeth and palatal fangs characteristic of early tetrapods, spathicephalids had very broad flattened heads with a dentition consisting of a large number of small, uniform teeth. Spathicephalids were probably one of the earliest tetrapod groups to use suction feeding on small, aquatic prey. Palynological and sedimentological analysis indicates that the new fossil bed was deposited in a large, stratified, freshwater lake that became increasingly saline. Smithson et al. A new Mississippian tetrapod Supporting InformationThe file contains a summary of the palynology of the new site. A list of species is given together with two plates of photomicrographs showing each of the spore species recovered.Smithson et al. A new Mississippian tetrapod Sup Info.docx

This is an audio recording of one of the interviews we conducted for our project "Women's Media and Memory". In this project, we aim to record and archive women's memories in Turkey by conducting oral history interviews. In the light of this research, we want to look at feminist understanding of Turkey's history through women's narratives.Please visit the project website for more for more information.https://www.bizimhikayemiz.org/

For age dating methods, see references. Calendar ages were calculated from the published raw radiocarbon ages into calendar ages using using Oxcal (online version 4.3) (Ramsey, 2009), the IntCal13 calibration curve (Reimer et al., 2013) and the modern reservoir age corresponding to each location extracted from GLODAP (Key et al., 2004). The reservoir age considered is 470 ± 120 a.

COVID-19 is unique in that it is the first global pandemic occurring amidst a crowded information environment that has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation on social media. Dangerous misleading narratives have the potential to disrupt ‘official’ information sharing at major government announcements. Using an interrupted time-series design, we test the impact of the announcement of the first UK lockdown (8–8.30 p.m. 23 March 2020) on short-term trends of misinformation on Twitter. We utilise a novel dataset of all COVID-19-related social media posts on Twitter from the UK 48 hours before and 48 hours after the announcement (n = 2,531,888). We find that while the number of tweets increased immediately post announcement, there was no evidence of an increase in misinformation-related tweets. We found an increase in COVID-19-related bot activity post-announcement. Topic modelling of misinformation tweets revealed four distinct clusters: ‘government and policy’, ‘symptoms’, ‘pushing back against misinformation’ and ‘cures and treatments’.

Abstract In a knowledge-based economy, initiatives based on the Creative Economy framework are supposed to promote regional economic diversification in developing countries. In Brazil, policy initiatives have focused on those activities with a view to design public policies oriented to reducing socio-economic and regional inequalities, as well as spreading those activities throughout the territory, especially towards less favored regions. Based on the Brazilian experience, this article discusses whether the pre-existing regional distribution of various types of creative activities favors or hinders the reduction of regional inequalities as a result of a policy focused on promoting creative activities and what actions could be adopted to achieve this result. Specifically, the paper discusses whether this expansion can promote an effective reduction of regional inequalities in terms of the number and quality of jobs and wage levels associated with those activities. The analysis suggests that the regional decentralization of creative activities towards less developed regions has been relatively limited in Brazil, as the more developed regions have remained more specialized in trades with higher digital and technological content, while the less developed regions have remained relatively more specialized in activities related to the cultural heritage. To reduce this imbalance, the support of local institutions and S&T infrastructure related to creative activities appears to be very important, which points out to the relevance of comprehensive policies well-adapted to very diverse local realities. This effort should have the impact of new digital-based technologies converge with the strengthening of economic potential of local and regional cultural heritage, by enhancing professional qualification of workers devoted to those activities.

This is an audio recording of one of the interviews we conducted for our project "Women's Media and Memory". In this project, we aim to record and archive women's memories in Turkey by conducting oral history interviews. In the light of this research, we want to look at feminist understanding of Turkey's history through women's narratives. Please visit the project website for more information: https://www.bizimhikayemiz.org/

Single-page Excel spreadsheet, containing a complete Late Bronze Age pottery data set Historic England, Society of Antiquaries, London, British Museum