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Reviewing science funding
Science, Maths & Technology

Reviewing science funding

...technologies, the key benefit of using European funding was not the actual research outputs, but the networks, contacts, exchange of expertise and relationships that follow from working together. Europe actually provides a massive low-risk testing ground for new alliances. This is hugely important. With limited domestic funds for investment the UK needs to use all the...
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Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?
Money & Business

Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?

...technologies and international strategies. Whether large or small, success comes from understanding and engaging consumers and meeting their needs; things that others were better at than BHS. The potential end for BHS is not then a reflection of a dying high street but of a highly competitive and open British retail market which produces strong, focused competition,...
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Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth
Education & Development

Using sources: Considering breadth as well as depth

...technology known as the Internet of Things and potentially our sources of information. You may think this is stretching the sources of information that you may need to consider for your next assignment but the purpose of including such examples is to illustrate the possibilities that exist now for finding and utilizing sources of information and how we can and maybe...
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Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music
History & The Arts

Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music

...technologies of music production and post-production. As such, Remote Control Productions blend traditional orchestral sounds and state-of-the art virtual instruments with complex digital sound manipulation. Bond has survived not only the Cold War but also a string of actors and composers, remaining both musically current and yet part of an identifiable tradition. With...
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Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering

...technology incorporates concrete walls and glazed panels along the river in Leeds city centre, and innovative moveable weirs that can be lowered when the risk of flooding is high – reducing water levels and relieving the flood threat. 5. Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme The A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme constitutes one of the UK’s most...
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Why we should remember the Armenians
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should remember the Armenians

...by the latest developments in technology. What the future shall bring to the Armenians as country and people only God knows of course. Who knows, if climate change destroys the globe through money-greed and idiocy, it is likely that mankind shall once again descend from the same mountain of Ararat. If we forget the Armenians we forget our history and imperil our future....
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Is there life on Europa?
Science, Maths & Technology

Is there life on Europa?

...technological capabilities. The launch of NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and ESA’s JUICE mission mark a turn of the tide in the search for life beyond Earth because icy moons, such as Europa in the Jovian (Jupiter) system, contain vast liquid water oceans underneath their ice shells. Origin of life So far, we only know of one place where life has arisen, and that’s...
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Learning from the past with historic buildings
History & The Arts

Learning from the past with historic buildings

...technology of open coal fires. Narrow chimneys and the need for coal stores have been part of ordinary terraced homes for at least 350 years now. What is a Traditional House? Standards of living have changed considerably, as social expectations about privacy, bodily comfort and cleanliness, and the quantity of material goods that people own have changed. When we join...
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