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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...mode out-of-hours could generate 145 kWhs of electricity to simply do nothing. Using CarbonIntensity.org.uk to get the real-time carbon intensity of the UK’s National Grid (250gCo2e/kWh), 145 kWhs converts to 36 kg or carbon. That’s just 10 computers: try scaling that to a few hundred or thousand. Then add in the cost of less-efficient appliances such as printers and...
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People with dementia and meaning in music
Health, Sports & Psychology

People with dementia and meaning in music

...et al, 2014). In turn, music can provide comfort and help them maintain a sense of self as the condition progresses (Commission on Music and Dementia, 2018). However, since everyone is an individual, a ‘one fits all’ approach is not always appropriate. Instead, finding out what music a man or woman with dementia enjoys is the basis for developing a personalised...
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To restore or not to restore?
History & The Arts

To restore or not to restore?

...le-Duc, undertook a process of restoration which was completed only in 1910. Carcassonne is now a major tourist attraction – people come to marvel at what is seen as ‘an excellent example of a walled medieval city’. Much of what people see, however, is 19th-century reconstruction – in a sense, Carcassonne is no more a medieval city than Cinderella’s castle in...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...et al., 2001; Zamir, et al., 2014; Levett, & Devine, 2017). I'm now going to explain this theory and highlight a few queries about it. The Story Model The story model is most closely associated with Nancy Pennington and Reid Hastie, though a number of other theorists have also suggested similar theories (Hastie, et al., 1983; Pennington, & Hastie, 1992; Anderson, et al.,...
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Vertical high pressure die casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Vertical high pressure die casting

...mode. Molten metal is automatically ladled into the shot chamber, which is attached to a drive cylinder in the vertical plane. The drive cylinder is adjusted back to the vertical position and the shot chamber is raised to the lower die position. Pressure is increased to force the molten metal into the die cavity in a vertical manner. Dies are designed with large in-gates...
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Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...examples provide just a flavour of the deficits that have been highlighted. Crowe et al. (2021) show how research priority setting (a key component of which is the development of research questions) for people who identify as LGBTQ+ has been built on a Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) bias in social science research, systematically excluding the very people it is supposed to benefit. ......
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Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...et al., 2014, p. 153) Figure 1 An example of innovation in policing The imperative for innovation in a policing context has been broadly recognised and is highlighted in the National Police Chief Council’s Policing Vision 2025 policy document. One author makes the point, however, that understanding and defining innovation in policing can at times be less than...
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The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction

...et al., 2014). Despite living in poverty, they choose to forego benefits to avoid being asked unnecessary invasive questions about their private life by welfare officers (Wright et al., 2014). In Bangladesh, urban residents who fell into poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic feel too ashamed about their new predicament to ask for support for fear of losing face (Roelen et...
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