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Systems explained by Russell Ackoff
Money & Business

Systems explained by Russell Ackoff

...and operational research...Russell Ackoff is a multifaceted academic and business thinker. Born in Philadelphia in 1919, he has been characterised as an architect, a philosopher, a city planner, an operations researcher and a problem solver. He is perhaps best known for making systems thinking understandable and accessible. But his studies began uneventfully... Transcript...
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Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...children’s rights, the preservation of environmental and cultural heritage, media policy, data protection and the fight against cybercrime. Such broad and critical activity comes with a deep responsibility, not least to be transparent in its operations to Europe’s citizens. Moreover, as the Council of Europe itself has repeatedly emphasised, enabling access as of...
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Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots
Education & Development

Learning with braille – more than just joining the dots

...Research has shown that people who learned to read braille as their primary reading medium are more likely to be in employment than those who did not, they are also more likely to have higher educational qualifications and be in more professional occupations. Put simply, the more extensive the braille skills the greater the advantages (Ryles, 1996 - see References below...
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Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment

...research evidence endorsed by organisations such as the mental health charity Mind highlighting how a ‘dose of nature’ enhances mental health and wellbeing. This has now led to more green social prescribing using natural woodlands, parks and other green spaces for outdoor exercise groups and social activities such as gardening in community farms. [Person taking...
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Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the size of your plate might be making you overweight

...research links tableware size with the tendency to eat too much...A new review has produced the most conclusive evidence to date that people consume more food or non-alcoholic drinks when offered larger sized portions or when they use larger items of tableware. The research, carried out by the University of Cambridge and published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic...
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The Future For Finance
Society, Politics & Law

The Future For Finance

...Centre for Accounting... Reform in the Financial Services Industry This podcast was recorded just after the Queen’s Speech on May 25th 2010, which set out the Government’s policy agenda for the forthcoming parliamentary session following the General Election on May 6th 2010. The Financial Services Industry: Reform and Reinforcement of Regulation In this podcast Martin...
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Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Nature & Environment

Arwen Bailey On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...research...Transcript About Arwen Arwen is a knowledge sharing specialist working in the field of agricultural research for development at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Arwen is amongst our first group of postgraduate STiP alumni having enrolled with the launch of the two core modules in 2010...
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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...research on the microbiomes of humans and marine mammals for many years. Writing on her blog ScienceIntegrityDigest, Twitter, and PubPeer, she is an expert in detecting inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarised text in biomedical literature. Her investigative work has been featured in many international portals, including Nature News,...
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