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Getting started with a Password Manager
Digital & Computing

Getting started with a Password Manager

...data LastPass can hold; select Password from the top-left of the window (it looks like a padlock). [Screengrab as described in the text] Another window pops up. You need to complete the form which only takes a few moments: URL: the address of the site you are accessing Name: a name you will use to remember the site Username: the userID you use to access the site Password:...
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Article 15 mins
What is Planetary Protection?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Planetary Protection?

...data returned from it). Backward contamination could occur when materials brought back to Earth from other bodies might carry something that could have consequences for the Earth’s biosphere. [A diagram showing forward and backward contamination]Forward and backward contamination are the two main processes that Planetary Protection aims to control.Show descriptionThe...
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Article 5 mins
How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...data to support its quality and effectiveness. References Andrews, S., Ellis, D. A., Shaw, H., & Piwek, L. (2015). Beyond self-report: tools to compare estimated and real-world smartphone use. PloS one, 10(10), e0139004. Appel, H., Gerlach, A. L., & Crusius, J. (2016). The interplay between Facebook use, social comparison, envy, and depression. Current Opinion in...
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Article 10 mins
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...data presented. It is also important to note that the understanding of what is meant by creativity has changed considerably over time (Box 1). Box 1 Changing definitions over time Where once upon a time creativity was viewed as a gift of the gods, recent academic theories of creativity can be loosely associated with different decades. In the 1950s, creativity was often...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...analysis In the mid-twentieth century Kurt Lewin, a social psychologist who worked in Germany and America, developed a theory called force-field analysis to think about the way in which changes made in the workplace succeed or fail (Lewin, 1947). It can be applied to any action planning or reflection process. Lewin suggests that any attempt to make changes will involve...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...data modelling, as well as common rules of thumb for identifying improvement opportunities. First, flow charts are developed to show all the steps in a process; the process is then made more efficient by eliminating multiple approvals and checkpoints, finding opportunities to reduce waiting time, smoothing the handoffs between departments, and grouping related tasks and...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...data shows no great support for such an option. Whilst 35% would support a referendum on the final deal, a clear majority (53%) would not. Support for a second referendum is greatest among Lib Dem voters (70%), Labour voters (56%) and remainers (64%). The opposition is, not surprisingly, greatest among leavers (82%) and Conservative voters (80%). However, if there were...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...analysis and discussion of ‘real’ problems. ‘Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences’ has been created to provide a predominantly self-contained resource including a mix of materials on different media. The last section in the course, however, revolves around the analysis of a play script – Joe Penhall's Landscape with Weapon – which we are...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs