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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?

...system level, when aggregating up to the level of a political jurisdiction (city or state), many of these processes break down. They argue: “The information security community does a great job of identifying security vulnerabilities in individual technologies and penetration testing teams help secure companies. At the next level of scale, however, things tend to fall...
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Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business
Health, Sports & Psychology

Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business

...system, what good allergen practice looks like, and why culture and law must work together to protect people with food allergies...When the system fails, people die For the 2 million people in the UK living with a diagnosed food allergy, eating out is never entirely straightforward. Despite clear regulatory guidance from the Food Standards Agency, people continue to be...
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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...system respond? How might you expect your local education system to respond given your awareness of constraints on it? How can local education systems respond to the wider, global environmental challenges? How do your responses to these questions connect with any of the three models for education introduced in week 2 of the course? [Photo 75901918 © Stepan Popov |...
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Introduction to linear equations and matrices
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to linear equations and matrices

...systems of linear equations which occur frequently in mathematics. Section 1 looks at simultaneous linear equations in two and three unknowns and then generalises the ideas to systems of linear equations. Section 2 develops a strategy for solving systems of linear equations. Section 3 looks at the algebra of matrices and shows that matrices can be thought of as a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...thinking for a moment, ‘Why am I doing this?’ But on the other hand, I thought it’s a great opportunity, and I think it’s kind of cool to modify your own body – and yes, of course it hurts, but this is a small price for what I get.” [Sketch of a cyborg] A sketch of the future? Joker cyborg by portismedia Michael, who studies electrotechnics in Cologne, looks...
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Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...system, which currently employs some 37,000 staff worldwide. Since the UN was created in 1948, there have been nine Secretary-Generals – and all of them have been men. Despite women’s increased engagement in high politics around the world, the UN has yet to appoint a woman for the top leadership position. [UNCTAD Secretary General Rebeca Grynspan at a press conference...
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Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...think it’s made us improve our own control systems and made us focus much more on operational risk than perhaps we had previously. When you think that the Allfirst debacle, for example, was really about loss of controls, about a single person who managed to run up large positions which seemed to be undetected for some time. But within the bank, what it’s really meant...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?
Education & Development

How can we dismantle racism in public institutions and services?

...systemic racism directly. What is being done now? What can be done moving forward?...After the Race Relations Act of 2000 and the MacPherson Report (1999), a national target to increase racial and ethnic diversity among the UK’s police forces was enacted. Such actions are founded on the belief that increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the police would help...
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