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Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...physical transformation informational transformation possession transformation location transformation storage transformation physiological or psychological transformation. The reading provides two worked examples of transformation processes and transformational change. Example 1, transformation processes at a library, is mostly an information processing operation;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...physical interconnection of large numbers of smaller data communications networks to form a huge, publicly accessible ‘network of networks’. Thus the internet carries electronic mail (email), hosts chat rooms and bulletin boards, enables the transfer of files, and is the physical basis for supporting the World Wide Web. The web is the collection of linked data stored...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...physically harmed anyone? After approaching his lawyers for answers a clearer picture began to emerge. Alexander was convicted under joint enterprise, a doctrine of common law used to convict entire groups of the same crime. If several people set out to commit a crime together, such as a robbery, and in the course of that crime someone is murdered, the entire group can be...
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Article 10 mins
Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...available of the physical and economic constraints faced. The political and economic future of our societies will depend on the ability of political leaders to harness imagination, rhetoric, and reason to craft narratives that can guide us to create a better society for all our children. This article originally appeared on the LSE EUROPP blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence...
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Article 10 mins
Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...physical and emotional strength, self-confidence and courage.” For a long time, the fastest woman in the pool; and the first black person to win Olympic swimming medals, today Enith passes her passion on through her own swimming school in Curaço. 5: Karim Guédé [Karim Guédé warming up] The record of Slovakian football fans on racism isn't great - it hit a notable...
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Article 10 mins
Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...physical traits, they feel it is quite easy to change negative psychological traits (e.g., being very shy/fearful). This optimism seems to diminish by 7 to 10 years of age however, as children, like adults, come to believe that negative psychological traits are relatively difficult to change. What, then, makes children happy? In the long term, the basic ingredients that...
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Article 10 mins
Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...physical difficulties that can limit what they are able to do, so that they may have to give up lifelong-loved activities. If we also begin to lose skills through cognitive difficulties, such as those associated with dementia, this can have an even more profound effect on our sense of self, as we have to ‘re-learn’ to live without being able to rely on memory or being...
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Article 5 mins
The birth of (synthetic) dyeing
History & The Arts

The birth of (synthetic) dyeing

...University, 1992 A course designed for use by science teachers from a wide variety of backgrounds, with varying experience of teaching science. A familiarity with some basic science (perhaps physics or biology) is assumed, but little understanding of chemistry is required. The mathematical understanding needed for the course is not great. Read more articles on clothes...
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Article 10 mins