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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...
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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Some thoughts on Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Some thoughts on Brexit

...analysis and thoughts of what is happening and why. Here (quickly) are mine. In Chinese medicine a distinction is drawn between a patient’s presenting symptom (his biaio) and his underlying set of complex causes (his ben). The role of the Chinese practitioner is to get a handle on what is really going on under the surface and treat accordingly. This may take time and is...
Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?
Money & Business

Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?

...effort. Read the paper The full article is titled: “Do employee-owned firms produce more positive employee behavioural outcomes? If not why not? A British-Spanish comparative analysis” by Imanol Basterretxea (Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Spain) and John Storey (The Open University, UK). Published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2017....
War, Intervention and Development
Nature & Environment

War, Intervention and Development

...analysis of the complexities of the aftermath of a civil war. In the academic perspective, Helen Yanocopulos, Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Development at The Open University provides insight into the educational value of the Sierra Leone case study. This material is taken from The Open University course TU875 War, intervention and development... War,...
Why does behavioural economics point to a hard Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Why does behavioural economics point to a hard Brexit?

...analysis, unless the UK gains a remarkably generous bespoke deal. But the same studies also suggest there will be losses even from the smallest step away. And the error around these calculations gets bigger as they move further from present arrangements, so that the gloomier forecasts are also hazier. This allows Leave campaigners to agree with “Remoaners” that an...
Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial

...analysis. Through presenting expert testimony, biased conclusions could end up influencing the jury. [A graphic showing a pyramid shape representing the sources of juror bias in criminal trials.] The biases that expert decision makers are subject to, from case-specific information to the effects of human and cognitive factors on their choices. Itiel Dror, Author provided...
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...