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Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...analysis by Lim et al. in the USA suggests that measurement is an important part of determining if something can be claimed to be a positive eco-innovation. A 2008 report by the consultancy Technopolis identified some key problems with assessing innovation, namely difficulties associated with: agreeing on selected key eco-innovation indicators on the micro level, taking...
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...analysis, where the relationships and links between the items identified are explored; diagnosis, where the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to intervention are examined...Diagramming for development 2: Exploring interrelationships: 2.1 When to use each diagram - For each diagram description below there is a suggested Activity which is itself an animated...
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...data, now it wasn’t us, we didn’t come up with this, this was the Woodland Trust and the UK Phenology Network, really proper, strong scientific bodies who needed big data, but couldn’t get it, couldn’t afford it, but we had big audience. So we got big audience to create big data and we’re very proud of the fact that over those three years we created a data set...
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...data from OECD (2018). Index: base year is 2010 (average of four quarters) = 100. Figure 2 is a line chart with each line representing the change in average house prices over the years in each particular country. The lines do not show actual house prices (in pounds, dollars, and so on). Instead, actual values have been converted to index values. See Box 1 for an...
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...data in tables to construct arguments, and summarise historiographical review articles...Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period: 1 Modernism - It is worth spending a moment now to untangle some of the terms that will be used explicitly in this course and that you will regularly encounter in readings on interwar society. First, ‘modernisation’, which is a...
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...data that the volume of the hippocampus, and of areas in the prefrontal cortex, is lower in people with depression (Campbell et al., 2004; Drevets et al., 1997). There is also evidence that activity in the prefrontal cortex is reduced in areas that are thought to be implicated in the control of emotions (Drevets, 1998). Via its effects on the hippocampus and the...
The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before
Society, Politics & Law

The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before

...data from early contests in Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina, my colleagues and I at CIRCLE observed two trends in youth voting. First, young voters were overwhelmingly supporting Senator Bernie Sanders, and voting in high – but not record – numbers. On the other hand, Republican youth were coming out in record numbers but not rallying around just one candidate. As...
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...data are too limited to prove that at this stage. But we do argue that streaming television benefits from a social media logic in a media ecosystem where recommendations, popularity and sharing determine user experiences. People who use communication technologies, namely social media, in this way tend to consistently participate more in civic and political activities....