Category: MIL OSI
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As Sri Lanka’s economy pivots from tourism, it’s well placed to benefit from global trade and geopolitical jostling – new research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hemamali Tennakoon, Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Management, Brunel University of London Dmytro Buianskyi/Shutterstock With its natural beauty, wildlife and culture, Sri Lanka is known as the “pearl of the Indian Ocean”, and attracts millions of tourists every year. But my research suggests that the country…
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Ghana’s security strategy has kept terror attacks at bay: what other countries can learn from its approach
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Paa Kwesi Wolseley Prah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dublin City University Ghana stands out in west Africa as a nation that has not experienced terrorist attacks, even though it’s geographically close to countries that have. In Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria, extremist groups such as Boko Haram…
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Livestock and lions make uneasy neighbours: how a fence upgrade helped protect domestic and wild animals in Tanzania
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Jonathan Salerno, Associate Professor, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Protecting livestock in areas where large carnivores (like lions) live is increasingly important as human land use expands, wildlife habitat shrinks, and climatic changes reshape the ways in which humans and wildlife interact. Protecting the…
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Learning statistics through story: students get creative with numbers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Johan Ferreira, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand Photo by Markus Krisetya via Unsplash Statistics professor Johan Ferreira was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of “screen time” involved in online learning in 2021. He imagined students must be feeling the same way, and wondered what he could…
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How falling vaccination rates are fuelling the antibiotic resistance crisis
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Ruchika Gupta, Assistant Professor and Medical Microbiologist, Department of Pathobiology and Lab Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre and Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest health threats we face today. It’s often blamed on the overuse of antibiotics,…
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I research rip currents where ‘Cosby Show’ star Malcolm-Jamal Warner drowned. Here’s why they’re so deadly
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Chris Houser, Professor in Department of Earth and Environmental Science, and Dean of Science, University of Waterloo Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who played Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has drowned on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. It is reported that he was swimming at Playa Cocles…
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What are education and health care plans and why are parents worried about them being scrapped?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Glazzard, Rosalind Hollis Professor of Education for Social Justice, University of Hull Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock For children in England with special educational needs and disabilities, an education and health care plan (EHCP) is a central pillar of support. The government is due to set out its…
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The A to K of vitamins: what you need and where to get it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol SpeedKingz/Shutterstock The late, great comedian Barry Humphries (of Dame Edna fame) once spoke whimsically about the health benefits of kale. Just one fistful, he joked, contained enough essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements…
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Sylvia Plath’s ‘fig tree analogy’ from The Bell Jar is being misappropriated
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Elisha Wise, English, University of Sheffield In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood imagines her life branching out before her like a green fig-tree. Each individual fig on the branches represents a different “wonderful future” – a family, a successful…
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People with MS and other fluctuating health conditions are often forced to quit their jobs when they want to work
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alice Martin, Head of Research, Work Foundation, Lancaster University Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock Plans to cut health-related benefits in the UK continue to give the government political grief – as well as being a huge worry for claimants. Underpinning the controversy are government plans to move more people into…