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Business Bursts: Failure
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Failure

...simple lack of cashflow, that the firm doesn’t have enough money to pay ongoing bills or wages, and we've seen quite a lot of that with the credit crunch, where it’s been more difficult for firms to, or more expensive for them, to acquire cashflow. Another factor in business failure is where the organisation has failed to secure a market, so it might have a good idea...
The politics of food introduction
Society, Politics & Law

The politics of food introduction

...simple cider maker it takes a surprising amount of time talking to people in government. We have had to speak with our MP or MEP, to protect either our name or our orchards or our tax position, just so we can exist really. Geoff Andrews One of the interesting aspects of the new politics of food is the composition of the new food movements: farmers, producers, chefs,...
Participatory development in action
Society, Politics & Law

Participatory development in action

...simple technologies, and facilitate the sharing of ideas through education. In the Andean mountains, scarce supplies of water and agricultural challenges give rise to conflict; but the changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change...
World in transition: Managing Resources
Nature & Environment

World in transition: Managing Resources

...simple technologies, and facilitate the sharing of ideas through education. In the Andean mountains, scarce supplies of water and agricultural challenges give rise to conflict; but the changes engineered by development agencies can start to show a way out of poverty. Meanwhile, Tanzanian rural schoolchildren are instrumental in bringing about positive long-term change...
Bayesian statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Bayesian statistics

...simple likelihood functions describe the role of the posterior distribution, the likelihood function and the posterior distribution in Bayesian inference about a parameter Ɵ...Bayesian statistics: Link to course PDF - Click here to access the course materials...Bayesian statistics: Conclusion - Following completion of this free OpenLearn course, Bayesian statistics, as...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...simple word, just made up of the elements silicon (Si) and oxygen (O). Transcript The mineral garnet is much more complicated and can have different spellings. The basic formula for garnet is Metal3Al2(SiO4)3, where the metal can be manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg) or calcium (Ca). The spelling can get even more complicated as a garnet crystal could contain two...
How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
History & The Arts

How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom

...code recorded onto cassette for playback – would sometimes be self-published and sold through adverts in computer magazines. The more successful coders might gain a lucrative distribution deal with a leading games company such as Bug-Byte, Mastertronic or Virgin, and see their work in shops nationwide. They were often seen as young geeks, and this was sometimes true....
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...code for the guidance and control systems of the in-flight command and lunar modules of the Apollo missions (McMillan 2015; Spicer 2017). In the process, Hamilton and her team established the nuts and bolts of modern software engineering, resulting in the creation of what she termed “ultra-reliable software” for the Apollo 11 mission. This included priority displays...