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Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...manager about possible training and other opportunities with his employer his HR department about the company’s graduate training scheme his trade union about possible IT training friends and contacts from college about their career paths family contacts about other career opportunities an impartial career adviser to help him review his options. More broadly, Phil may...
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Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...Introduction - According to the British Menopause Society (2020), menopause is ‘a major life event affecting all women in a variety of ways, both short and long term’. So, what is menopause? [Described image] The word ‘menopause’ simply refers to the end of the menstrual cycle, which is caused when the ovaries stop producing eggs. The term comes from the Greek...
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...introduction to systems engineering and systems management’ in Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management, New York, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1–58. Schofield, R.E. (1963) The Lunar Society of Birmingham. A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth Century England, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, p. 3. Shelley, M. (1992 [1818]) Frankenstein, or the...
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...manage and create new data has an energy overhead that is greater than the amount of energy required to do the work, therefore, any energy we are wasting by doing needless work is also creating demand for needless cooling. What is needless work? Cloud technologies are often very easy to set up and activate, and when they’re running they keep running in the background...
Life in a bubble: the training camp experience at a World Cup
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life in a bubble: the training camp experience at a World Cup

...managing a tournament training camp is a complex task which, in England’s case, has evolved from some bitter experiences and failures to perform at the level the squad where capable of. Germany in 2006 is a good example. The 2006 golden generation: learning the hard way Expectations for England ahead of the 2006 World Cup were high. The squad was full of experienced...
What is ‘woman’s work’?
Money & Business

What is ‘woman’s work’?

...manage the relation between the demands of their work and those of their family. Specifically, the analysis will focus on understanding whether the perceptions of work–family interface are constructed as conflicts and/or whether they are also viewed as opportunities for professional and personal enrichment. In exploring these experiences of work–family interface the...
Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...manager working in hospice and palliative care for 40 years. I write this from the perspective of a white western European mother, and grandmother. I know there will be people and cultures that will have different views about how we should prepare for death, but in this series of articles, I will be focusing on my thoughts about western practices, especially those I have...
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...managed by digital technologies. The bus that runs into town will probably have a sensor on it sending wireless signals to an LED sign on a bus stop saying when it will arrive; traffic lights may be controlled by sensors counting traffic flow; the stock levels in local supermarkets are managed using software; the cash register where shopping is paid for, and the loyalty...