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Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit
Money & Business

Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit

...adapting to hybrid working, and the impact of this on their personal lives. To help develop your own thinking, the skills you might need to develop and the role you play in supporting individuals, teams and your organisation through hybrid working and digital transformation, use the ‘Hybrid ways of working: a contextual sustainability framework’ illustration below,...
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More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

...adaptation The scientists presented their findings at the symposium in a research paper titled Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world. The paper compiles older knowledge and new research findings, summarising the important effects of trees on helping to retain water on the ground and to produce cooling moisture, which in turn, have a positive impact on...
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Los sonidos del Español en su historia
Languages

Los sonidos del Español en su historia

...Entre sus obras, sus poemas son conocidos por su empleo preciso de la lengua, un estilo conocido como conceptismo y opuesto al culteranismo, cuyo máximo representante es su enemigo Luis de Góngora (1561-1627). El soneto Amor constante más allá de la muerte contiene una de las declaraciones de amor más bellas de la literatura en español, expresada de manera concisa y...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...et al., 2001; Zamir, et al., 2014; Levett, & Devine, 2017). I'm now going to explain this theory and highlight a few queries about it. The Story Model The story model is most closely associated with Nancy Pennington and Reid Hastie, though a number of other theorists have also suggested similar theories (Hastie, et al., 1983; Pennington, & Hastie, 1992; Anderson, et al.,...
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'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...et al., 2019, for gaps related to socio-economic status/class/race see Carter and Weiner, 2013; for UK achievement gaps related to race/ethnicity see Stevens, 2007, for gender, ethnicity and social class see Strand, 2014) and disproportionate numbers of Black male students disciplined and excluded from school (for US see Skiba et al., 2002; Monroe, 2005; Ritter and...
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Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...examples provide just a flavour of the deficits that have been highlighted. Crowe et al. (2021) show how research priority setting (a key component of which is the development of research questions) for people who identify as LGBTQ+ has been built on a Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) bias in social science research, systematically excluding the very people it is supposed to benefit. ......
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Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...et al., 2023). [Male gymnast on pommel horse] AI has the capacity to analyse large sets of data, such as analysing football players to allow automatic identification of dynamic attack formations which can support ‘tactical training’ (Sperlich, Duking, Leppich and Holmberg, 2023, p. 2). AI also affords opportunities for the identification of athlete talent, predicting...
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Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...adapted extract from the Open University course DE200 Investigating psychology 2...Making sense of ourselves: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain some of the key aspects of prejudice and how and why they are important describe basic elements in the study of the psychology of personal relationships such as love and friendship...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs