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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...Systems Thinking is based on fundamental principles which are applicable across a very wide range of experience and circumstances, no matter when or where they occur. This case study dates from 1965, and is an example of a situation that still occurs frequently. The company concerned was the leader in its market in the food canning industry in the UK and belonged to a...
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Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...systems on which we depend?...Like other wealthy countries, the UK now has swelling numbers of people whose needs for the basics – food and shelter – are not being met. The proportion of the UK population experiencing food insecurity has risen sharply, as has the proportion of those who are homeless (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2024). This is occurring at the same...
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Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?
Money & Business

Systems explained: What do we mean by feedback?

...systems thinking. Instead of thinking in a linear way, it recognises that as well as one cause (A) leading to an effect (B), B will also affect A in various ways. This circular causality is called a 'feedback loop'. Many elements interacting and coupled in this way result in a complex system, of mutual causes and effects, especially when they involve human ideas, beliefs,...
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Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Professor John Naughton On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...systems thinking...Transcript About John John joined the OU as a lecturer in Systems in 1972. Amongst many significant achievements in the 1980s he was a key member of the team that introduced the use of personal computers into the University's teaching and learning system. In the 1990s, John was lead academic creating the University's first major online course (You, your...
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Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...system. Parents will not however have to buy new editions of the Bible, to their relief perhaps and to the chagrin of the publishers, as the 2016 curriculum for the course on Religion, by and large backs existing versions of the Bible. It re-states the “fact” that the cosmos was created by divine inspiration. Amongst a number of novelties related to the new course,...
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Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system
Science, Maths & Technology

Targeted genome editing: Introducing the CRISPR/Cas9 system

...system in bacteria, but scientists have simplified and repurposed the system as a revolutionary genome editing technology. Like the previous methods, CRISPR/Cas9 involves an endonuclease (in this case called Cas9) that cuts DNA molecules at a selected site. It differs in that the endonuclease does not bind the DNA itself. Instead, Cas9 binds to a second molecule called...
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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

...System to host extra-terrestrial life. Robotic spacecraft, such as NASA’s Galileo and Cassini missions, have shown that several icy moons contain vast oceans of liquid water deep below their icy surfaces, where conditions may be suitable for life. Two of the best-studied of these icy moons are Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Enceladus...
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Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System
Science, Maths & Technology

Hitching a ride on an asteroid to travel back to the birth of the Solar System

...system. [Meteorite Murchison carbonaceous chondrite from Australia] Meteorite Murchison carbonaceous chondrite from Australia Earth’s atmosphere, however, is an issue for any space rock looking to find its way to Earth. It acts as a filter, favouring the survival of rocky and metallic meteors. But there can be further problems after such rocks land on Earth. Most...
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