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Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...data are not the result of its own self-production. The way the computer works remains the same, whether it is processing pictures from the National Gallery or whether it is processing letters of the alphabet. The rules that relate input to output are constant over time. The question of what I can know about the outside world is an ancient one and has always been central...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...analysis of advanced capitalism in the West. He was one of the main authors (along with Stuart Hall and E.P. Thompson) of the May Day Manifesto, published on the eve of the student and worker unrest of 1968, which put forward a radical critique of contemporary capitalism in the period of the Harold Wilson Labour governments. [Statue of Sciascia in Racalmuto] Statue of...
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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...analysis. In November 2016 the New Statesman reported that the cost of reducing migration to Government targets could be as much as £6 billion per year. A lack of accountability [22nd June 1948, Some of the first Immigrants from the Caribbean island of Jamaica arrive at Tilbury, London, on board the ' Empire Windrush'] The policy and its political fallout is largely...
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How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...analysis of all available good quality scientific evidence in a given area. The heart of a guideline is a set of practical recommendations agreed by a committee of experts, including people with lived experience, and checked and rechecked with a wide range of people and organisations who will be affected by the eventual product. A NICE guideline is, therefore, about as...
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Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon

...analysis shows that over half the emissions reductions needed to meet the Sixth Carbon Budget [a 78% reduction on 1990 UK territorial emissions by 2035] involve people making low-carbon choices, whether adjusting to the different characteristics of low-carbon technologies (eg, electric cars), or by changing their current consumption patterns (eg, by eating less meat)....
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North Sea, air safety and Brexit
Nature & Environment

North Sea, air safety and Brexit

...analysis of what had happened. The 225 and its close variant, the 332, were grounded while detective work took place. Subsequently, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) decided that what they had discovered, allied to a series of protective safety orders, meant “an acceptable level of safety” had been restored. EASA said Airbus, who makes the Super Puma, had...
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Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...data interpret data from a pie chart and a logarithmic–linear graph...Week 2 Ageing and microgravity environments: 1 An introduction to ageing - Human beings are complex life systems. As you get older, you experience the effects of ageing. But what is the ageing experience? There are certain ‘hallmarks of ageing’. Figure 1 is based on research into the ageing...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...analysis plus live blog is here. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton completely dominated the debate, with Sanders speaking with power and conviction, from the heart. Most unusually for the US, which has not experienced a socialist presidential candidate since Eugene Debs in the early twentieth century, he openly describes himself as a democratic socialist whose ideal...
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