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What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...out these challenges, and there are myriad others. The first of these, the agglomeration of numerous technologies over time and the management problems that creates, are not unique to cities – in fact the New York State Chief Information Officer (CIO) recently gave testimony describing the same challenge at the state level in the Empire State. Other challenges, like the...
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What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...out to commit a crime together, such as a robbery, and in the course of that crime someone is murdered, the entire group can be convicted of murder regardless of who dealt the fatal blow. All that needs to be proven is that the individuals present foresaw that the murder might occur. Alexander, a social worker, had been out in West London when a confrontation between his...
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How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...out, heralding the party’s overall campaign performance. GE2017 was a numbers game: by achieving very high levels of organic reach, Labour managed to target undecided voters in marginal constituencies, energise voters who had drifted away from the party, and mobilise the young...[Political party Facebook montage] Ever since last summer’s General Election journalists...
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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...out and being with family or friends may give much enjoyment and can create treasured memories. Resuscitation decision In the same way that most women would like a ‘natural’ birth’, if asked, most people would like a ‘natural’ dignified death. So, an important conversation you need to have as part of your advance care planning is to talk about Cardio Pulmonary...
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Ireland and the Battle of The Somme
OpenLearn Ireland

Ireland and the Battle of The Somme

...out more about The Open University's History courses and qualifications. A campaign, rather than a battle [The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916] The Somme was the first great action by a British Army on a continental scale. It was the longest, bloodiest battle of World War One, a campaign lasting four and a half months, and fought over a twenty-mile front near the...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...out quickly. This could create a stable slope as well as a supporting floating ice shelf which would suppress high cliffs and cancel out a further retreat by MICI. As there are no direct observations of MICI, the 2016 paper tested different representation of MICI on estimates of past sea level contributions from Antarctica. Those estimates are based on ocean sediment...
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Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...out consistently in their analysis of the British labour movement, it has always been ignored by the Labour intellectuals who serve as the gatekeepers of Wales’ official ‘story’. This version of Wales – which has to be contextualised within the history of the British labour movement and the British working class more generally – may be unpalatable, but one...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...out to have a modulating effect on a herb's actions and are possibly beneficial. For example if meadowsweet is used as an anti-inflammatory, it does not have the stomach-irritating side effects that are associated with aspirin. It seems that nature has provided us with well formulated drugs in the form of the weeds that grow on our doorsteps! Herbal Medicine Today There...
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