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Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...law of small numbers, and the false positive paradox...Session 5: Reasoning with sets: 1 Lewis Carroll, the master puzzler - Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), the British author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass, also published many logic puzzles. Here is one of them. Suppose you are given the following starting points (called premises). All babies are...
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...law. And then the third sign, click it or ticket, $142 minimum fine. Fascinating. It's the exact same change getting you to buckle your safety belt, but we have three different appeals to desire – conformity to the law, personal safety, and avoiding that $140 ticket. Interestingly, I was at the Prosci headquarters in Fort Collins, Colorado just a couple of weeks ago. I...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...law and publicly funded (öffentlich-rechtlich). Die Dritten Programme are small regional channels run by the regional broadcasters. There are also many private channels such as RTL, Sat1 and Pro7. Most channels offer news at 7 or 8 p.m. and a feature film or documentary might typically start at 8.15 p.m. The extract in Figure 3 is from a TV guide and shows what is on TV...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...laws to control discharges to the river. London's sewage was piped downstream of the city where it was discharged, still untreated. This produced some improvement, and by the end of the 19th century the river quality began to improve (Figure 12). A good quality river will have an oxygen level close to 100% saturation—but if a river is polluted, oxygen in the water will...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...laws and policies and trade publications, for example...Using data to aid organisational change: 5.1 Sources of external secondary data - In Activities 5 and 6 you were asked to consider the types of internal secondary data that would be useful for your project. You will now collect information directly related to addressing your business issue. Table 3 contains examples...
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...law, give that to you within two months of starting work. That said, not all employers comply with the law. BOBBY SEAGULL What about the pay? Is it the case that some youngsters get exploited in their first employment? JONQUIL LOWE Well, from age 16, there's a national minimum wage, so that puts a floor on the amount that young people can be paid, but earlier than that,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...laws appear which were not apparent, and could not even in theory have been deduced by the behaviour of the constituents of the system, before they were organised. This idea of new levels, new laws breaking in at new levels have, of course, always been very repugnant to a reductionist science. Fact is I think that it's now quite unavoidable and a very good thing too. Even...
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...law. For the day-to-day running of your library, you also need to be familiar with the school's policies on the use of mobile phones and computers. It's always nicer if we can make the rules so well understood without repeating them that we spend our time emphasising what we can do, and not what we can't. It may sound like there's a lot of dry reading to do, but in truth,...