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Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?
Money & Business

Have vanishing debt costs created a magic money tree?

...data still show overseas holdings at around 27%, with insurance and pension funds’ share down to 28%, and other UK financial institutions holding around 40%. But once the store of gilts sequestered on the Bank of England’s balance sheet is excluded, overseas buyers account for 35% of gilt holdings and other central banks another 11%. Uniquely, more than 10% of the...
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The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

The ice-covered ocean worlds of the outer Solar System

...Data collected by Cassini showed that the plumes of Enceladus originate from its global subsurface ocean and are powered by interactions between the water and the hot rocky core deep within the moon. [Plumes rising from Enceladus’s South Polar Region] Figure 1: Plumes rising from Enceladus's South Polar Region. Although the ocean of Enceladus is cut off from sunlight,...
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Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football

...data for players. According to UEFA and Adidas, this technology will help VAR officials identify every individual touch of the ball, reducing the time spent resolving handball, offside and penalty incidents. The most sustainable Euros ever? Sustainability has become an increasingly critical focus in organising international football tournaments, with the sporting world...
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Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...data gathering and analysis, and is followed up by an updated version in 2024 (Bennett et al, 2024) which has a focus on improving the quality of your data and using it strategically. Once you have this basic data there are other things you can measure, for example are some groups more likely to get shortlisted and appointed, obtain promotion, have opportunities for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...data and space as represented on a map...Why maps are made: 1.1 What makes a map? - [Map 1] Map 1 The Millennium Dome in Greenwich, one of 56,000 photographs taken for the Millennium Map – 2000's answer to the Domesday Book (Source: The Guardian, 4 November 1999, p.1; image produced by getmapping.com PLC) During 1999 The Millennium Mapping company launched a project...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...analysis. Of course, interviews can also be properly done and lead to solid understandings of social matters. Ethnographic methods have been used to challenge stereotypes and prejudices but also to further colonial oppression. Similarly, statistical methods of investigation do not only create positivistic knowledge for regressive or conservative ends; they can be used to...
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How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?
Nature & Environment

How are tiny air pollutants causing massive storms in the Amazon?

...analysis shows that condensation around tiny particles significantly increased cloud formation and warmed the surrounding air, intensifying the so-called deep convective cloud systems that are responsible for causing thunderstorms in the Amazonian tropics. “These tiny particles act [by] forming cloud droplets after all the larger particles in a warm and humid...
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Stamford College
Education & Development

Stamford College

...analysis, they’re written really clearly. I don't think you need any kind of academic background or university level background to be able to access those.’ ‘Intermediate and advanced courses, such as Business models in strategic management, are slightly harder and I've worked with students to support them sometimes with those, but I actually use those more advanced...
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