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Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy

...analysis tests, and (in the worst cases!) actual sample sizes. Looking to the future, it seems that greater involvement of psychologists (and, more broadly, social scientists) may benefit the XPhi movement, both by helping to address the aforementioned methodological shortcomings, and by expanding the range of methodological tools and approaches employed. Conversely,...
Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...analysis required to identify these, was beyond the scope of existing resources of the company either in people or in funds. Conclusion The changed texture of the environment was not recognised by an able but traditional management until it was too late. They failed entirely to appreciate that a number of outside events were becoming connected with each other in a way...
Does the 2017 election show that the UK has a broken electoral system?
Society, Politics & Law

Does the 2017 election show that the UK has a broken electoral system?

...analysis on the first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP), concluding that it is archaic, ineffective and undemocratic. It argues that an electoral system created in the early 1800s at a time of two-party politics during the UK’s democratic formation cannot cope with the dynamics of a modern, multi-party political system. This is not a sudden or new phenomenon. The...
How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...analysis at an international conference and then as a book chapter (Fox et al., 2019). They showed how they could apply frameworks for thinking about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), originally written for Higher Education settings paper (Warwick, 2016; Winter et al., 2015), to a wide range of their own school-age settings. The consensus was: EfS needs to...
How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’
History & The Arts

How a centuries-old poem hints at Shakespeare’s herbal ‘muse’

...analysis of clay “tobacco” pipes from Shakespeare’s garden at New Place and elsewhere in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon indicating the smoking of cannabis. Author’s note: I am most grateful to Chris Bennett for directing my attention to the “The Praise of Hemp-seed” by John Taylor (1620). [The Conversation] Francis Thackeray, Phillip Tobias Chair in...
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Money & Business

Risk management

...analysis and then apply successful processes to manage it. The course is supported by case studies and audio-visual materials to help explain the varied and often complex risk management practices employed at Rolls-Royce and widely elsewhere. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...analysis to look for patterns in stock-market data. The EMH suggests that there is no reason for such expert investment strategies to work any better than buying stocks in proportion to their weighting in the market index, or even buying a random selection of stocks. [Described image] Figure 14 The ‘random walk’ from tossing a coin. Source: Malkiel (2007, p.130)....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...analysis. It says any host that “organizes” videos posted by users loses important parts of its eCommerce immunities. Therefore, these platforms can be held responsible for finding and removing content. This interpretation would effectively change the rules for Internet users and intermediaries without formally reopening the eCommerce Directive. If it is right, courts...