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What is trauma?
Society, Politics & Law

What is trauma?

...autonomic response’ can mean sexual violence victims react strongly to everyday encounters and stimuli which might not be a threat or trigger to others. Police officers’ actions must be rooted in understanding that what ‘might seem small, like a throwaway comment or location of a meeting room – even a smell or a sound, is not necessarily small to someone with...
How do you become US President?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become US President?

...autonomous federal legislature, the US Congress, being elected separately to the president, checks and balances him or her and their executive. Any president, if in firm control of their executive, often has little clout with Congress. Knowing it loses more legislative battles than it wins, the presidential executive has often to fight with the Congress; more often than...
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...autonomous community jobs, paid for by public resources and selected through these exams. Teachers normally come from the ranks of these civil servants. It would seem that hardly a step has been taken to improve the situation and the antiquated methods have become deeply entrenched in all seventeen autonomous regions, including Catalunya, and at all levels of the...
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...autonomous being’. What constitutes an autonomous being is the subject of much debate. According to one recent commentator, ‘at a minimum, the agents must be able to act for reasons, reflecting on facts and interests across time’ (Hill 2000, 241). We can think of an autonomous being as one who is able to determine the ‘shape’ of their life through reasoned free...
Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence

...autonomous cars, intelligent voice bots to humanoid receptionists, how, if at all, should governments and lawmakers respond - and what should they be responding to? And how can businesses, as well as members of the public, best keep themselves informed about the extent to which advances in AI may impact on the economy, as well as our society? A recent consultation by the...
The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...autonomic nervous system (ANS), is highly responsive to stress, and most of the communication is automatic and unconscious. The goal of the autonomic nervous system is to maintain homeostasis, and it does so by utilising its two subsystems – the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS). If a stress response is triggered, it sends...
Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...autonomous from governments in de facto terms, undercutting national accountability. The author dismisses the traditional measures suggested to address this problem. For instance, empowering the European Parliament will not work, he argues, because it is divided along simplistic pro- and anti-integration lines, and lacks legitimacy with citizens. Indeed, he accurately...
Create stunning images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Create stunning images of the Universe

...Autonomous Service Telescope (COAST) resides in a clamshell style dome at the Observatorio del Teide 2,400 meters above sea level on the active Teide volcano. “Of course, we’d all like a trip to Tenerife but as the name implies this telescope is operated by a computer and undertakes the vast majority of its observations without human intervention. However, through my...