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Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...changed or changing situations; the ability to modify or adjust one’s behaviour in meeting difference circumstances or different people. Furthermore, according to the ‘Tripartite model’, adaptability also refers to an individual’s cognitive, behavioural, and emotional regulation (or adjustment) in situations of change, novelty, and uncertainty (Martin, 2017;...
Why would a nation move its capital city?
Society, Politics & Law

Why would a nation move its capital city?

...Brazil, Kazakhstan and Nigeria are among the states which have recently moved their capital cities. This short video from The Economist explores some of the reasons a country might decide to try a different capital. In the past century eight countries have changed their capital city pic.twitter.com/rFt9AGzom6 — The Economist (@TheEconomist) January 26, 2017...
How Healthy Are You?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Healthy Are You?

...and see if you need to make some personal changes...['How healthy are you' quiz image - a slection of vegetables] Select the image above to start the 'How Healthy Are You' quiz (this opens on an external website). For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...climate in which the project operates may change during the execution of the project). Unless someone – normally the project manager – institutes a formal way of noting, estimating and carrying out approved changes (change control) the project can deteriorate into chaos. Managing inter-group relationships No team operates within a vacuum. Teams inevitably have...
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Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...changes to what access they have to services within those communities would not be about migration control. It would be about displacement. 2. Human rights must be for everyone In the UK today, many human rights have become dependent upon documentation and status and this has mostly become socially acceptable. In the latest review of the UK by the UN Human Rights Council,...
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...changing the story character’s name or gender), other customisations (such as changing the character’s skin, hair and eye colour) are in the pricier range. In a recent study, personalised books, as opposed to their non-personalised equivalents, did not help children understand the moral of a story or apply it to their own lives. Personalised books could serve...
30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...changes affecting SMEs in the past 30 years...Founded in 1984, the Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain is the longest continuing report focused entirely on small- and medium-sized businesses in Britain The 30th Anniversary Special Issue examines the history of the survey and highlights key changes affecting SMEs over the last three decades, including the...
Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...changes in the nutritional content of hay can help conserve the UK's precious species-rich floodplain meadows... [farmers in a field haymaking in the early 1900s] Haymaking in the early 1900s, newspaper cutting from my grandmother's scrapbooks. [farmers on a tractor haymaking during the 1950s post-war agricultural revolution] Haymaking during the 1950s post-war...