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Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist
Society, Politics & Law

Fighting hard while flying high: the personal story of a BA cabin crew trade unionist

...business/britishairways Tim Lezard (2017) ‘BA strikers take their struggle to Parliament’, union-news.co.uk, February 7: https://www.union-news.co.uk/ba-strikers-take-their-struggle-to-parliament/ Dan Milmo (2009) ‘BA strike: conflict that was always on airline's flight path. Clash with cabin crew had been looming since privatisation’, The Guardian, December 15:...
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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...businesses, developers and users would make more conscious decisions about what data needed to be transmitted, yet today we are metaphorically surrounded by ‘data lakes’ – huge virtual warehouses of data that have been collected with the hope that one day some value could be derived from them. While connectivity may now be considered to have a reasonably low...
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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...business elites and block access to those deemed a security risk or the ‘wrong’ kind of migrant. In writing about the borders of Europe, Etienne Balibar, a French political philosopher, asserted that “borders are no longer the shores of the political but have indeed become… things within the space of the political itself”. By this, I take him to mean that...
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Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...business. Collaboration plays a similarly important role in coaching by guiding and developing athletes to improve their skills, tactics, and overall performance. Effective teamwork among coaches, athletes, and support staff is essential for creating a cohesive and productive environment. Activity 3 Your favourite team Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes Watch this...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...busy times, and the backlog might be cleared when less demand is coming in. The alternative approach is to adjust capacity in anticipation of a change in demand. We could look at demand forecasts and anticipate when peaks and troughs are going to occur, usually through seasonality of demand. We then make adjustments to capacity to match the general pattern of demand over...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...Business...Marketing communications as a strategic function: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of the strategic importance of communications in a competitive environment...Marketing communications as a strategic function: 1 Barriers to a strategic view - Marketing communications is not always accepted as...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...business model to follow as it illustrated just how easy it is to profit off deep-seated insecurities stemming from a lifetime of being treated as ‘less than’ (see Amin, 1990). It is worthy of note here that ‘locs’, a natural hairstyle that has historically been worn across several civilisations and cultures, has been and is often referred to as ‘dreadlocks’....
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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...Business Dialogue in Germany. He is a co-founder and the Chief Technical Officer of Grindhouse Wetware, an open-source biotech company based in his hometown of Pittsburgh that pushes the boundaries of implantation, often with Cannon himself as the main experimentee. [Sketch of a cyborg] “The peripheral nervous system is a place that we’re going to be going in probably...
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