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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...Data collected according to measures of performance are used to modify the interactions within the system. Mess A mess is a set of conditions that produces dissatisfaction. It can be conceptualized as a system of problems or opportunities; a problem or an opportunity is an ultimate element abstracted from a mess. Monitoring and control Data collected and decisions taken...
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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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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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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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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...analysis. Our data source decides whether it's reliable data. We don't. Otherwise, that would introduce bias. What about other countries? There are 200 studies of health in relation to income inequality in the academic peer-reviewed journals - this isn't confined to these countries here - providing a very simple demonstration of the same countries, the same measure of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...data as part of fundraising bits. They might be doing needs analysis, or they might be trying to think about who else is operating in an area. And our data will help them understand how many other organisations are doing that. I’d really like people to be able to use our data to understand their organisation by benchmarking themselves against it. And we are trying to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Medical uses of genetic testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Medical uses of genetic testing

...data of many people can also be analysed simultaneously on a large scale. This allows scientists to learn more about how our genetics affects our health, and paves the way for groundbreaking discoveries in healthcare which change the way we diagnose and treat diseases. Visit our YouTube playlist to watch more videos from the GRACE project, or visit our website to know...
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