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Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...et al., 1997, p.170). What is represented by a monthly departmental meeting? What does it signify? Beyond sharing information, it is an opportunity for departmental members to catch up and share stories. It is a formal, yet important regular event that represents shared understandings of what it means to work together. Identity Department members’ identity practices at...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...double the width compared to its height. Its title reads ‘Mars 1890’. The map area is divided into a grid pattern by horizontal and vertical lines, with a thicker horizontal line in the middle marking the equator. The top quarter of the map is mostly featureless and is labelled “Mare Austraale”. There are three circles in that area, named Thyle I and Thyle II, and...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...circulation and breathing. Even though this is reversible, the term is often used by mind–body dualists who cling to the belief that a soul (or self) can persist separately from the body. Today, however, being alive is no longer linked to having a beating heart, explains Owen. If I have an artificial heart, am I dead? If you are on a life-support machine, are you dead?...
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...double figures. Why do economies go into recession, and what should policymakers do? How do governments use money to influence the economy? Listen to this podcast to find out. A pre-election rise in interest rates would confirm Britain’s economic recovery. And might also sink it, writes Alan Shipman in this Society Matters article. Each year, the Office of National...
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...doubles or triples. Take a close look at the image above. Try to follow the layers – we call them lamination – around the rocks. If you zoom in, you might see that some are slightly thicker than others, and you might see very bright white as well. Sometimes that follows the lamination, sometimes it cross-cuts it. From previous investigations – and mineralogical...
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...et al.,2012) You cannot ask these questions or get a meaningful response from others until you have thought them through yourself. Try these three thought experiments: First, think about how you would answer the questions above and note down your own answers. Second, in the description of the first focus group it was indicated these were people you knew, or who knew you....
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...double figures. London, a global city bursting at the seams, populated by 8.5 million, of whom 3 million are foreign-born, with an electorate of 5.5 million, voted Remain by 59.9 per cent to 40.1 per cent, an overwhelming 20 per cent majority. England-without-London, by far the largest of the five, with 46 million inhabitants, and with the highest turnout, voted Leave by...
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...double or triple glazing. [Described image] Figure 18 Rolling out a loft insulation base layer between the ceiling joists Also, the highest levels of energy efficiency will need to be used in industrial and commercial processes and practices. A switch away from fossil-fuelled electricity generation will remove a major source of energy wastage due to the poor thermal...