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Contemporary Issues in Finance
Money & Business

Contemporary Issues in Finance

...a single currency. The use of derivatives The use of different derivatives within two businesses. FRA's and Futures A definition of FRA's and Futures and the benefits of using them Is risk being under priced? Marcus Davidson and Graham Honeybourne explore the issues. Efficient Market Hypotheses An explanation of EMH and how they account for perfectly competitive markets...
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Structural Integrity: Silver Bridge
Science, Maths & Technology

Structural Integrity: Silver Bridge

...is examined up close. Trigger Factors How increasing traffic and freezing temperatures triggered the failure. An eye-witness account of the collapse. The Failure of Eyebar 330 How an undetected 3mm crack formed over 39 years weakened the eyebar, and a forensic deconstruction of what happened during the accident. The Aftermath The legacy of the Silver Bridge Disaster....
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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...account for 1% to 1.5% of global energy consumption. The data transmission networks that connect them to each other and everything else, a further 1%. [A data centre in China]A data centre in China. An IEEE article suggests that cloud technologies account for almost all of the 1% to 1.5% range and that this is expected to grow to 8% by 2030. While the link between the...
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How do historians know about the past?
History & The Arts

How do historians know about the past?

...accounts of the Rainhill Trials, the grand competition that The Rocket was designed and built for. We have printed handbills of the contest which show images of the locomotives involved including The Rocket. And newspapers with first-hand reports on the day’s events. Historians can then take all these and consider them alongside other relevant information they have,...
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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...account of this, says Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology Dr Stephanie Taylor...[A group of women sitting around a table in an informal work meeting ] Research participants used to be referred to as ‘subjects’, especially in my home discipline, psychology. ‘Participant’, the term now generally used, emphasises the rights of the person recruited, and their...
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The Tulsa Race Massacre
Society, Politics & Law

The Tulsa Race Massacre

...account. 75 years later, in 1996, things started to change. A new public inquiry (which reported in 2001) was launched, corroborating the claim of state complicity with white supremacism. More recently the portrayal of the massacre in two HBO series – Watchmen, broadcast in late 2019, and Lovecraft Country, broadcast in 2020 – resulted in renewed national and...
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How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...accounts were reaching. [Chart illustrating points described in the text] Table 1. Change in Facebook likes during the campaign Table 1 shows the dramatic growth in Facebook likes for Jeremy Corbyn, up by more than 35%, and the Labour Party, up 71%, during the short campaign. This is despite a strong starting position at the beginning of the campaign. While there was...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...accounts of the industrial revolution have been influenced by the political, social and economic climate of the time in which the historian was writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way in which research interests and questions are formulated and the kinds of issues active in the surrounding environment....
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