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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...simple, such as where there is a single offence which the prosecution need to prove all elements of beyond reasonable doubt, or it could be more complicated where there are several offences, defences, alternative counts, evidential and legal burdens, etc. The third and final stage is where the jury engages in a process of categorisation, applying the legal categories to...
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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...simple Gantt chart, using a spreadsheet. If you use Microsoft Excel, it has some Gantt chart templates. The advantage of a Gantt chart is that it makes it easier to see how you can overlap some tasks, and you can mark important milestones such as submission deadlines. [Example of a Gantt chart]Figure 2 Example of a Gantt chartShow descriptionA screenshot of an Excel...
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British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Education & Development

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

...simple reason – counselling changes lives. If you would like further information about us and what we do, please visit www.bacp.co.uk. The Open University and the BACP have teamed up and have a course on OpenLearn create, as a response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The aim of the course is to offer a primer on working online as a counsellor or psychotherapist...
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Spray diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Spray diagrams

...simple, fast technique for extracting the important ideas from a situation, conversation, presentation or written article and getting them down on paper in a way that is meaningful to you. A spray diagram starts from a theme in the centre and the ideas arrange around that theme showing the connections or associations between the ideas. Sometimes it is useful to introduce...
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Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA
Science, Maths & Technology

Big data and bioinformatics: Powerful tools for decoding DNA

...code’ (have instructions) for particular products, proteins, to be produced. For example the protein pigments that give eye colour. However these sequences or some of these nucleic acid bases, are slightly different between individuals called variants, which can be inherited or changed during a person’s lifetime. These variants can span small regions of DNA and can be...
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Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?
Money & Business

Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?

...simple, direct read-across to high commitment and high reward. But, they do offer the potential for shared knowledge, shared power and shared reward. To realise that potential seems to require constant skillful effort. Read the paper The full article is titled: “Do employee-owned firms produce more positive employee behavioural outcomes? If not why not? A
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How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?
Nature & Environment

How has Teddy Kinyanjui taken plastic out of reforestation?

...more seeds in arid lands. “We would [also] like people to see the value of this simple technology as a contributing factor in combating and adapting to effects of climate change, as this is the cheapest way to encourage tree planting, especially in arid and semi-arid areas,” adds Kinyanjui. This article was originally published on SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...simple as getting started with an influence or trajectory diagram has really helped people see things in a new & informative way. Why not STiP? – The learning it brings can sometimes be extremely unwelcome. I’ve been in projects where I’ve been asked not to finish as it became clear that the issues [arising] were extremely sensitive/ embarrassing. What are the...
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