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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...accounts of teams in 1969 are difficult to track down but I have found the accounts of Manchester City’s neighbours, Manchester United, and compared them to Manchester City’s accounts for 2017 in table 2. Table 2: Sources of revenue 1969 and 2017 Source of income Manchester United 19691 Manchester City 20172 Television revenue £1,334 (0.2%) £204 million (43%)...
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...
Do partnerships like John Lewis represent a better way of doing modern business?
Money & Business

Do partnerships like John Lewis represent a better way of doing modern business?

...account of the John Lewis Partnership (JLP). It describes what the JLP is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it. The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and its openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses, is prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees, suppliers, and sometimes...
Learn with Start Up Loans
Money & Business

Learn with Start Up Loans

...accounting, they’re designed to help business owners understand more about the key aspects of running a business – from the day-to-day to growing your venture. Alongside the business essentials, you can now find courses focusing on climate and sustainability, mental health and wellbeing, as well as trauma and grief. Who are we? Start Up Loans provides
The language of protest
Society, Politics & Law

The language of protest

...account, raising awareness of issues that are ignored or otherwise dismissed by the government, and of expressing the will of the people when this diverges dramatically from that of its elected leaders. This is one of the reasons why a key principle accompanying freedom of speech, is the right to protest: the right to organise in groups to speak out against your...
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...
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....
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...