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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...determining an organisation’s footprint, digital included, one of the biggest challenges revolves around data and information – the data simply isn’t robust or abundant enough, yet. That means that any status quo baseline we can create can only be as good as the currently available information. These data are improving rapidly, which means that the shelf life of the...
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...determined young man from Bolivia, who follows his dream to become a policeman, which he could not realise in Spain: The main concern is if the UK is going to stay in Europe or not. Because of course, this would affect my plans tremendously. What if I start to train as a policeman here and my dream is cut short for the second time? Juliana, an Ecuadoria-Spanish woman in...
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Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...determinants of sports performance or effectiveness of interventions in women. Of all the papers in the top three sports science and medicine journals for a one-year period, only 4% of the research was done exclusively on women. Alongside this lack of research is poor methodological quality of existing research, which further compounds our ability to draw conclusions or...
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Article 15 mins
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...determined externally and over which the investor normally has no influence. However, it is worth bearing in mind that the market price is set by the collective actions of all investors, so that the price can be seen as an average of all investors’ views about the value of the share...Week 2: The spectrum of personal investments: 2.2.4 Share valuation - This short quiz...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...determined governments) there is an increased awareness and recognition of nations and nationalism (Hobsbawm, 2000). Some commentators argue that nationalism and an increasing interest in folk cultures is a reaction to globalisation. Economic and political globalisation threatens nations and states, while the globalisation of culture is seen as threatening local...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...determine if the study was implemented correctly, it will then examine the pre- and post-response data (both qualitative and quantitative). Following this, the process will determine if the goals or objectives of the study were attained. This will allow for the identification of successful strategies and to ascertain if any new strategies may be needed to augment the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...determine the specific type of database system (network, relational, object-oriented) that is required, but not the detailed implementation of that design (which will depend on the operating environment for the database such as the specific DBMS available). The relational representation is still independent of any specific DBMS; it is another conceptual data model. Our...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...determines their behaviour at work...Human resources: recruitment and selection: 3.2 Person–job fit - The traditional approach to recruitment and selection is based on the view that organisations should specify the requirements of the job as closely as possible and then look for individuals whose personal attributes fit those requirements. It is based on the assumption...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs