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How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...researchers, and information technology professionals. But more so than the good press and accolades, the importance of the CDRP, and the broader Cyber Disruption Response process that it is part of, are indicative of some of the reasons that Michigan’s approach to cyber security seems more mature than some other states and localities. Michigan has been engaging in a...
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How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...researchers say the radio pulses are unlike anything ever seen from other similar stars. Perhaps more likely is that the signals originate closer to home – arising as interference from a high altitude, Earth-orbiting artificial satellite which happened to pass through the field of view of the telescope during the observations. However, such a signal from a satellite has...
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Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world
Nature & Environment

Water: Managing the 1% in a climate changing world

...research and teaching have developed systems thinking and collaborative or social learning approaches to water management. Systems thinking acknowledges the holistic nature of water and our own roles and collaborative responsibilities as managers in water systems, rather than just as consumers. In England, this approach has helped develop catchment partnerships between...
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Detecting fake images
Society, Politics & Law

Detecting fake images

...research are being undertaken. To spot a fake image, sometimes you just need common sense A fake image often looks unbelievably and extraordinarily spectacular. When being presented such an image, we should ask ourselves whether the contents of the image can be real or whether it agrees with the character of the subject. This often needs lots of common sense and...
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Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...research further we recommend following the link to a review of studies on this topic by Dr Sam Cooley (2020) who identified 38 articles on talking therapy in nature-based settings. Our team are also contributing to this literature by reviewing the available outdoor therapy interventions for older adults who have experienced traumatic events and we hope to be able to...
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Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...Research in England indicates that when someone has had an advance care plan in place at the time of death, the bereaved were more likely to rate their end-of-life care as excellent or outstanding (DIxon, King and Knapp, 2019). There are many types of topics that can be covered during advance care planning, including but not limited to: what kinds of treatment someone...
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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...researchers, industry, commercial businesses, space agencies and more. My current work at Astrobiology OU aims to strike the right balance between industry’s need for agile and cost-effective processes for building spacecraft and rovers and scientists’ desires to conduct meaningful, state-of-the-art, astrobiology experiments. [The ExoMars - Rosalind Franklin - Rover...
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Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...research and development, aimed at making those already in work more productive. George Osborne did something similar. Following the failure of austerity and a dip back into recession in 2011-12, he quietly reinstated several of the initially-suspended infrastructure programmes. Hammond has signalled an intention to go much further with an extra £23 billion to be...
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