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Climate change’s costs are still escalating
Nature & Environment

Climate change’s costs are still escalating

...resources, leading to the spread of disease and compromising safe drinking water supplies. “Warmer temperatures often promote the spread of mosquito-borne parasitic and viral diseases by shifting the vectors’ geographic range and shortening the pathogen incubation period. Combination of disasters “Climate change can worsen air quality by triggering fires and dust...
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Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...resources internally instead of paying them out to shareholders. However, Jensen’s prediction of the rise of private equity has proven true. The rise of private equity may be a contributing factor to why fewer firms choose to participate in the public markets. The firms that remain public are survivors. A small number of firms account for most of the market...
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Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front

...resources of their respective units with admirable discretion. No truce Christmas celebrations will vary considerably according to the situation of the men. I imagine that most of the front-line battalions will have an opportunity to eat their dinner in peace if the prevailing calm of the battle-area can be regarded as indicative of tomorrow's conditions. At one place...
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Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...resources that a player has to cope with the demands placed on them. This drip, drip, drip from a series of sources of stress can make them susceptible to burnout. Smith and Raedeke (2001) outlined 3 characteristics of burnout. Firstly, emotional and physical exhaustion, in the form of lack of energy and loss of interest in an activity. Secondly, feelings of low personal...
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The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s
OpenLearn Ireland

The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s

...resource community such as ours. Conditions were quite awful when I arrived here because emigration was taking a massive toll of the people, to tell you the truth. When I saw what was happening I was as mad as hell because all the young people were being siphoned off and they were just emigrating in droves, and before very long this community would die, and being saddled...
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Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out
Society, Politics & Law

Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out

...resources to provide support for new arrivals. But concerns about Italy’s response to refugees extend beyond the financial. In the face of rising numbers of migrants, Italy has struggled to maintain humane conditions for these people. Indeed, at the end of 2015, Médecins sans Frontières announced that it would cease work in migrant reception centres in Pozzallo,...
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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...resource and species-rich hay can still provide a wide range of nutrients and medicinal compounds for pasture-fed livestock. [brown calf grass field] [lamb sheep meadow] Livestock grazed on species-rich meadows may enjoy better health owing to a wide range of natural antibiotic and antiparasitic compounds produced by meadow herbs. The timing of haymaking is a critical...
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Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place
Nature & Environment

Rocky relations: Why an isolated rock in the Atlantic is a sought after and contested place

...resources, is the primary source of the interest in this single unforgiving and unliveable rock. [Rockall with birds flying] Arguably there can be few places in the world, so small, so isolated, and so perilous, that have generated international disputes, and filled as many newspaper and online column inches as has Rockall. The dispute goes back to the middle of the...
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