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The house doesn't always win
Digital & Computing

The house doesn't always win

...systems, to heating systems and lightbulbs can connect to the internet – either to receive content (such as movies and music), or to allow for remote monitoring (‘how warm is my house right now?’) or control (turn the oven on, I’m on my way home). The thermometer was used to monitor the water temperature in an aquarium and sent data over the casino’s wireless...
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Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...think about what’s happening upstream. Water is gathered across a large area, rivulets spring up in very different places and meander along; they do their own thing for a while before converging. Where they meet there can be turbulence. Upstream, there will be sections of white-water, rapids and waterfalls. As with teams, the downstream observer doesn’t witness the...
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Fused deposition modelling (FDM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Fused deposition modelling (FDM)

...system. Three-dimensional structures can be formed by adding material onto previously deposited material...FDM cannot handle overhanging structures with much success. Therefore, systems are often equipped with a second extrusion head for depositing 'sacrificial' material. This is commonly dissolved in a solvent that does not affect the properties of the build material....
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What is Blockchain?
Digital & Computing

What is Blockchain?

...system it is very open. In addition to the source code being openly available, a key feature of blockchains is that in principle every user has their own copy of the entire blockchain. In fact, there is no central or master copy, simply the multiple copies held by the volunteers in the user community. Volunteers are rewarded for their effort through a number of...
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Social Science
Society, Politics & Law

Social Science

...systems of belief. Complementary approaches Comparing social and natural sciences, the need for both perspectives for full understanding. Influence of Social Science The impact the study of social science has had since the 19th century. Knowledge - what is it? The relative status of different kinds of knowledge, scientific knowledge and its supposed objectivity. The...
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Sut y gallaf ymdopi â straen arholiadau?
Education & Development

Sut y gallaf ymdopi â straen arholiadau?

...system nerfol awtonomig yn dechrau gweithio. Mae hyn yn beth da i ddechrau, gan ei fod yn actifadu'r system hon sy'n rhyddhau'r adrenalin niwrogemegol - ac mae hyn yn eich ysgogi i fynd ati a chanolbwyntio ar eich gwaith. Fodd bynnag, mae'r broblem yn dechrau pan fydd cyfnodau o straen yn ymestyn. Pan fydd hyn yn digwydd, bydd y rhan sympathetig yn gweithio'n barhaol, gan...
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Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny: The Playboy brand and sexualisation of children

...think about things that they're innocently thinking [is] a nice pink bunny…. Just allow them to be children for that bit longer'. [A Playboy-themed bus in a Limassol carnival parade] A Playboy-themed float in a Limassol carnvial Such qualms would apparently have been unnecessary in relation to our young participants, all of whom claimed to understand the symbol's...
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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...thinking he found in the system. Breakthroughs have come only recently, long enough for Covington to have observed and promoted a shift away from a fatalism – and a stigma – that was preventing any progress in reducing death from suicide while we eradicated diseases and tackled other threats, such as road accidents and smoking. Covington credits a book and a bridge...
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Article 15 mins