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Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?
Money & Business

Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?

...economic cycles. One of the many rationales advanced as justifying employee-owned enterprises is the idea that workers in such enterprises will be more engaged and more productive. The suggestion is that workers in these enterprises will think and behave differently: the essential nature of that difference being that they can be expected to act more like ‘owners’: be...
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"V" Process (Vacuum sealed moulding process)
Science, Maths & Technology

"V" Process (Vacuum sealed moulding process)

...economic advantage. The ethylene vinyl acetate film is 50–100 µm thick and is heated to 100˚C; the temperature is judged by the loss in opacity of the film. After thermal softening the pattern must be uniformly coated, without wrinkles or tearing. Patterns of cast aluminium are cheaper than for “bonded” sand moulding and last longer, since the sand does not come...
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Single point cutting
Science, Maths & Technology

Single point cutting

...Economic machining of a material depends on many factors: hardness of material, hardness and toughness of cutting tool, design of cutting tool, cutting fluid, metal removal rate, surface finish, tolerance, feed, speed, etc. Design: Turning Mainly for producing cylindrical (turning), flat (facing) or shaped (tapers, threads, etc.) surfaces. Tolerances vary from ±0.5 mm...
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Revolutions of the Sixties
History & The Arts

Revolutions of the Sixties

...economics and technology. In A Spiritual Revolution?: Wicca and religious change in the 1960s, you’ll consider whether religious change in the Sixties can be considered as a spiritual revolution. You’ll explore how traditional religion was challenged, and how new religions such as Wicca (a form of modern Paganism) emerged from an age where sexual norms, gender roles...
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Understanding Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Cities

...economic environments. Encounter or Containment? The city as a non-corporate entity - the political possibilities inherent in city spaces. The city can be a politically strategic space, and how otherwise powerless groups can gain attention. Unruliness and cities The relationship of order and disorder in the city, and the intensification of social relationships in cities....
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Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...economic and political factors shape and constrain our understandings and experiences of mental health and distress. It explores the wide range of diverse and frequently competing perspectives that characterise the world of mental health and looks at the impact of these perspectives on mental health practice and service provision. In a set of academic perspectives,...
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International Development: microcredit and migration
Science, Maths & Technology

International Development: microcredit and migration

...economic collapse has led to people taking matters into their own hands by creating an alternative social exchange currency. Migrant communities, such as Greek Cypriots and Ethiopians in London, and Sierra Leoneans in Liverpool, have a chance to reveal the issues they’ve faced; while in the audio tracks we hear from experts who are working to expand the contribution...
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Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?
Society, Politics & Law

Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?

...economic situation in the country, after having made grandiose promises. Unemployment in Tunisia remains stubbornly high at 16%, and averages 40% among youth. There’s been a “security vacuum” in the country for more than two years. More than 30 national guards have perished in skirmishes along the Algerian border. A recent standoff in a suburb of Tunis, the capital...
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