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Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...Data availability “Too long they have been overlooked as a means to tackle climate change. Too often have problems of accurate measurement and reporting stymied progress towards climate-smart soil management. “With the surge in availability of big data on soils around the world, alongside rapid improvements in understanding and modelling, the time has come for this...
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How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...data files and security updates’ if they are not already selected. Unlike Microsoft, Apple does not have a regular schedule for delivering updates. On occasion, Apple has forced security updates on machines to fix the most serious problems. These updates are entirely automated and do not require restarting your machine. Apple iOS (iPhone and iPad) Updates for Apple’s...
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Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...data driven communication by social media companies. These target Facebook users based on psychological profiling from Facebook. Data driven communication ensures that political messages are targeted to the people most likely to be influenced by them. It is through this process that social media not only gave a voice to the frustrations of a downtrodden US population but...
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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?

...data for species-rich floodplain meadows. Missed hay cuts mean rising soil nutrients and falling botanical diversity. [hay in a field.] But is later-cut hay really of lower nutritional value? And is the delay really critical for long term conservation goals? There is a need for more data about how the nutritional content of hay changes during the growing season between...
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Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...data, and the best way to keep track of where you are is to organise it in a highly visual fashion by compiling a family tree. This is a diagram that shows how all your family members are related to one another - essentially, it's a map of your roots. Start with yourself; if you are married, place your partner's name alongside yours and connect them with the symbol '=' or...
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W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...data. Based on over 5,000 survey questionnaires and a mapping of every business and building in the Ward, this account of a diverse community provides the statistical evidence to show how African Americans were systematically disadvantaged. The high levels of unemployment, imprisonment and drug addiction are linked and traced to the discrimination African American people...
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Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...analysis of data including those related to corpora...Exploring the English language: 1 Word classes - Activity 1 Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Look at an extract from An A to Z of English by clicking on the video clip below. In this extract, poet Michael Rosen acts out a confusing lesson on grammar. How many of the questions would you have got right? (Just give an answer...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...analysis of the project definition documentation, for example in a work breakdown structure. Understanding of the work tasks to be completed will be the basis for assigning responsibilities according to competencies. The elements of the tasks can be mapped to project participant roles using a responsibility matrix, also known as a linear assignment matrix. Thus, given the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs