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Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...centres). Secondly, the success of such technologies depends on factors that go well beyond the purely technical, to include, especially, human and organisational factors, but also many others. When we talk about IT systems we mean both more than technology and – within the technology – more than software. Hardware technology is just as important for IT success as...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...children considering the resolution an attack on American culture and some African Americans considering it an orchestrated effort to continue to perpetuate the marginalisation of African American children. Similar racial tensions were felt in England with regards to Multicultural London English (MLE). MLE is best defined as a multiethnolect with varying output of...
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Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...centres all along the route. New technology, such as steam powered cranes, also helped but it was their enlightened boss that made the big difference in improving working conditions. The rhetoric embedded within rising trade unionism never turned into the class war that was feared and the Manchester Ship Canal successfully opened as the largest ship canal in the world....
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Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...centres where it is used in business, transport, church, media and as the medium of inter-ethnic communication. Baganda, who belong to Uganda’s subnational kingdom of Buganda, are both numerically and geographically the primary ethnic group of the capital city of Uganda, Kampala. Luganda is one of the first African languages to document the country’s indigenous...
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Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...centres such as London are protected, whereas populations in small, poorer areas of the UK such as coastal villages and towns away from the cities are left vulnerable to future sea-level rise. Economic aspects of society are often given precedence in policymaking over social and environmental aspects. [Photos of London's River Thames] Canary Wharf - a major financial...
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The machine that is still changing the world
Science, Maths & Technology

The machine that is still changing the world

...centre of gravity resides. To tap into the higher volume segments of the 12 million units-per-year market in China it is not sufficient to move your own assembly facility there: you have to take your entire supply chain with you and also deal with local infrastructure issues before you are fully established. All of this requires considerable investment and exposure to...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Stresses and strains

...centre of the pin. There’s some interesting evidence of pitting corrosion on the surface, the bearing surfaces. This would be the bearing surface of the pin over which the, uh, eyebars would rotate, and you can ... there is considerable pitting under the track of the one of the outer eyebars, and also ... underneath the cap, even deeper corrosion ... pitting caused...
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...centres and networks as accounting for between 6 and 12% of total global energy use. While this is also an enormous chunk of total global energy use, there is a glimmer of hope here, because the internet industry is widely known to be advancing their switch from conventional fuels to renewable sources. However, there are nuances that we should be mindful of here, too....
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