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iSpot: Your place to share nature
Nature & Environment

iSpot: Your place to share nature

...research it builds species identification skills and contributes to biological data recording in the UK and globally. iSpot is a network of tens of thousands of nature observers, both experts and novices, who have posted over 800,000 observations, with 1.6 million images, identifying over 30,000 species. Some of the images supplied by iSpot users are displayed on this...
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Article 10 mins
On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...research income are taken into account, the figure is closer to £161 million a week. So the £350 million figure is an invention or just a lie. But the £161 million is still a significant amount the UK could use on healthcare if we leave the EU. Except it couldn’t. Non-member countries in Europe who want to trade with the EU’s single market, Like Switzerland and...
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Article 10 mins
Linear programming – the basic ideas
Science, Maths & Technology

Linear programming – the basic ideas

...research. It’s concerned with the skills needed to represent real optimization problems as mathematical models, and with techniques used in numerical analysis and operational research for solving these models by computer. Explaining how and when modelling and numerical techniques can be applied, the course covers solutions of non-linear equations; systems of linear and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...research project, Decolonising Religious Studies. We first interviewed the Associate Lecturers teaching on A227: Exploring Religion, focusing on their impressions of the curriculum and the difficulties that their students reported. Next, we carried out a survey of all students of A227 in June/July 2021 and held three focus group interviews with nine students in total. We...
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Article 25 mins
The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...research in sports medicine and sport and exercise science has allowed training and sports medicine practices to develop, and the modern-day sports medicine professional has a wealth of treatment options and modalities to choose from – far more than were previously available. The advances are too numerous to discuss in detail in this article but treatments such as...
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Article 5 mins
The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Nature & Environment

The drive to sustainability in Higher Education

...research was pioneered by The Open University with the first major quantitative study, the ‘Factor 10 Visions’ study ‘Towards Sustainable HE’ (Roy et al. 2005; Roy et al. 2008) followed by the Jisc-funded SusTEACH research and development project – ‘Sustainability Tools for Environmental Appraisal of Carbon impacts of HE teaching models using ICTs’ that I...
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Article 10 mins
What is shareholder activism?
Money & Business

What is shareholder activism?

...class="highlight">RESEARCH/papers_files/BravJiangPartnoyThomas2008.pdf Krishnan, C. N. V., Partnoy, F., and Thomas, R. S., 2016, The Second Wave of Hedge Fund Activism: The Importance of Reputation, Clout, and Expertise. Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-9; Journal of Corporate Finance 40, 296-314, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2589992...
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Article 10 mins
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...centre of the image from right to left, which looks like a branch. This is the valley network called Nirgal Vallis. Circular features are evident in several places on the image, which are impact craters.] Figure 14 Nirgal Vallis as seen by Mariner 9. The image (94 km across) shows a valley network, interpreted to be river channels with tributaries. The circular features...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs