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AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture
Science, Maths & Technology

AI without borders: balancing productivity and privacy in agriculture

...world Agriculture is a combination of science and skill. It refers to cultivating seeds, tending livestock, using pesticides, irrigation and harvesting plants, etc. Rather than dispersed ideas, it is a holistic integration of all these applications. Plants and animals both serve the purpose of food and material production. Food is the prime component of all human...
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Design and Creativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Creativity

...world. Designers from Philips and IDEO explain how they formulate design plans, conduct market research and make design decisions. This material forms part of The Open University course T211 Design and designing... Design and Creativity A short introduction to this album. New Designs: Charger Harnessing the power of technology: a designer talks about developing and...
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Finite Element Analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Finite Element Analysis

...them with practical investigations. They are disappointed if the results are more than 5% apart from computer predictions. Take a sceptical view The results of CAD should be treated sceptically and require a lot of interpretation and real world comparison. Ultimately the engineer's experience and judgement are more important than information generated via computer models....
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Business Bursts: Marketing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Marketing

...world, it raises all sorts of ethical issues. Dr Andrew Lindridge An historical example of how marketing failed would be the example of Rover Cars. Where Rover had been part of British Leyland, which was a large gathering of British car companies, and had gone down from being a high status car, to poor reputation, and Rover tried to redesign its image, or reposition it as...
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Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...world from these people’s points of view; that only then will it be possible to understand what they were intending to do and why, how their actions fit into, and perhaps follow from, what they take to be the reality of their situation, their sense of identity and of past life. What is assumed here is a world in which people have complex inner perspectives that must be...
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What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...world. [Graffiti reading 'don't blame Trump, blame yourself' painted on a Dutch shop window] Graffti reading 'don't blame Trump, blame yourself' in a street in Amsterdam Europe’s support for Clinton Europeans have generally oscillated between incredulity, anxiety, consternation and apprehension when commenting on the consequences of the election. There has been a steady...
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How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...World War II and had unrivaled expertise in foreign affairs. So how did Trump make his lack of government experience an asset in the campaign? The answer lay in the intense and widespread public hostility to the political, media and business establishments that lead the country. Trust in institutions is at an all-time low and a majority of Americans believe the country is...
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The String Quartet
History & The Arts

The String Quartet

...world! Also in jolly old fishwives, squatted under arches, obscene old women, how deeply they laugh and shake and rollick, when they walk, from side to side, hum, hah! "That's an early Mozart, of course——" "But the tune, like all his tunes, makes one despair—I mean hope. What do I mean? That's the worst of music! I want to dance, laugh, eat pink cakes, yellow cakes,...
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