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Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...resource for your study of this unit. Activity 1 What is your purpose in doing this unit? What do you hope to get from the unit? I imagine you might have some expectation that you will enjoy, or benefit from, doing the unit. What benefits do you expect? What was it in what you heard about the unit that suggested you might benefit from it? What was it about the unit or its...
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How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is Khat adding to the food crisis in Yemen?

...resources from much-needed food production...The cultivation of khat in Yemen has expanded during the ongoing crisis, with the plant now taking up about 15 per cent of agricultural land, according to figures released by the Yemeni Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. It was previously grown only on mountains and hills. The ministry's statistics also confirm a large...
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What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...resources available in many museums throughout the world.” Small Animals, Big Changes Hope and his colleagues found that the forest-dwelling masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) is expanding its range, while its neighbor to the north, the tundra-dwelling barren ground shrew (Sorex ugyunak), is experiencing constriction and fragmentation of its habitat. The encroachment of the...
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Reporting in the fog of an attack
History & The Arts

Reporting in the fog of an attack

...resources as advertising declines and the need to invest in more and more digital platforms erodes the core mission. In this climate, short cuts can seem attractive. Rules for news We now live in a highly complex media environment – fed by algorithms, gamed by political or commercial interests, favouring sensation over authority, showcasing opinion over fact. Very few...
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Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus
History & The Arts

Solon upsets the wealthy Croesus

...resources' for guidance on using the HestiaVis map and texts. Now use the ORBIS platform at Stanford to explore the time and cost of a journey from Athens to Egypt (Aegyptus), stopping in Cyprus, and on to Sardis. Although this project provides a model of the Roman world, the results are compatible with the earlier period. Compare your results with a similar journey...
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Is norovirus an economic threat?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is norovirus an economic threat?

...resources to preventing, controlling, and treating norovirus? Just counting the number of norovirus cases, the deaths, or the number of hospitalizations caused by norovirus doesn’t tell the whole story. Better understanding the economic impact of norovirus begins to give you a better view. Diseases do not have to be deadly or last long in a patient to have substantial...
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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...resources of the company either in people or in funds. Conclusion The changed texture of the environment was not recognised by an able but traditional management until it was too late. They failed entirely to appreciate that a number of outside events were becoming connected with each other in a way that was leading up to irreversible general change. Their first reaction...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...resources, skills and recognition of ageing needs by the retail market. Second, where an older person’s social network is variable they may need support from nonfamilial carers. For some ‘living at home’ can be central to maintaining levels of autonomy which may have to be delegated to someone else whether in a personal home or by moving to a care home. Here, the...
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