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The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict
Nature & Environment

The ISIS winter: The environmental impact of Middle East conflict

...data on the environment, not only after the conflict but also during it, making decision makers more capable of and competent to take appropriate actions," one of the report’s authors, Wim Zwijnenburg, tells SciDev.Net. ISIS militants set fire to oil wells in the summer of 2016, as they retreated from parts of Iraq. The toxic substances that oil fires release into the...
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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...analysis, knowledge representation and computer vision. This served to strengthen the backbone of AI theories. In the 1980s, AI began to move at a faster pace. The public became more comfortable with science and technology as the popularity of personal computers rose and sales of A.I. related hardware rose. AI was put to the test for military use in the Gulf War in the...
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OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...data? Some calculators ask users for ‘real data’ such as annual gas and electricity use, car mileage, flight distances, etc. However, many users have found these difficult to access, and they only account for ‘direct emissions’, around 20% of the total consumption-based footprint. This calculator uses national statistics for the most typical cases, then refines...
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Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?
Science, Maths & Technology

Back To The Future Part IV: What will 2045 be like?

...Data will be owned by the individual who creates it. There will be a property right within data allowing individuals to trade, share and volunteer their data for personal gain – such as providing data to receive targeted advertising and product discounts or, in aggregate, providing demographic information to assist in policy development. Digital everpresence will...
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Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...analysis of interviews, autobiographical accounts, or documentary photographs. Qualitative researchers often focus on everyday life itself. Neither of these forms of evidence is better or more useful than the other, indeed they often complement one another, but they need to be used appropriately in terms of the question being asked and the claim being made. So let's look...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...data available that facilitates a smoothly running supply chain requires vast amounts of energy. Have a look at the numbers in the United States: US data centres consumed about 70 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2014, the most recent year examined, representing 2 percent of the country’s total energy consumption, according to the study. That’s equivalent to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...analysis are framed often affects the final decision. The same data can lead to very different conclusions if decision makers have different assumptions about the way the world works...Making decisions: 7.3 What is an effective decision? - To improve decision making it is first important to have a clear idea of how we should judge an effective decision. While in this...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...data identifies 56 different ethnic groups in China, but one group - the Han - accounts for just over 90% of the population. Education in the Communist state Education has been highly valued in China since classical time: traditional Chinese philosophy emphasises education above other values. This focus on learning continues to be important in Chinese society today; a...
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