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Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...children were children. It goes something like this. The world is a complex of systems and sub-systems, a very complicated interaction. Some are arranged heirarchically like the cells and organs of the body and layers of government. Some are involved functionally and laterally like the partners in a business, some in a curious mixture of competition and co-operation which...
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Technology in sport since 1969
Health, Sports & Psychology

Technology in sport since 1969

...children to sit and play computer games rather than be out in the streets, or in the garden, climbing, jumping, running and socialising and playing with friends (Slutsky & DeShetler, 2017). [Kid on mobile phone] Sport and technology are now so intertwined that with the continuous development of affordable products we will have the means to collect an array of data, some...
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Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...children (6%) are living with obesity in Northern Ireland. A report that examines a whole systems approach to obesity prevention in Northern Ireland was published in 2023. The report comes as the Department of Health prepares to draft a new obesity prevention strategy in 2024 to replace its predecessor, ‘A Fitter Future for All 2012-22’. We are unique However,...
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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...research balloons are built to be able to fly in the stratosphere in the thin air. Most of the sky would already be dark, rather than blue, for a passenger in such an aircraft. The top of the stratosphere lies at about 50 km altitude. Although there are more rarefied atmospheric layers above, for practical purposes the environment is already much more like ‘space’ by...
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...research student Zoe Morland...The Moon is the most extensively studied planetary body outside of Earth. Despite this, its formation mechanism is still a mystery. Transcript Astronomy & Planetary Science The Formation of the Moon Zoe Morland: Have you wondered how the Moon was made? The Moon is the most extensively studied planetary body outside of Earth. Despite this,...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...research and gut instinct I think there’s a lot of intuition in commissioning, speaking on behalf of the commissioners I know; part of the skill that we have to show as programme makers is to tap into their instinct for what makes good television or good radio or what have you. On audiences, obviously there’s pure numbers of eyeballs, if you like, and that’s very...
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Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?
Society, Politics & Law

Despite sanctions, North Korea's nuclear programme is enjoying success. How?

...research on how states illegally obtain missile technologies and my experience conducting outreach related to U.N. sanctions give me some insight into the methods North Korea used to make illicit procurements and the limitations in using technology-based sanctions to prevent them. Technology-based sanctions In 2006 – following North Korea’s first nuclear test – the...
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How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates
Science, Maths & Technology

How network science can unravel Al Capone's criminal associates

...research which studies the social relationships of organized crime in Chicago in the 1920s, Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos were able to take advantage ofthe availability of thousands of notes and documents on Al Capone’s criminal network. By applying network analysis to the criminal relationships in Capone’s gangs they find that multiplexity – when two...
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