It Was Just a Brief Flash

Just when you thought it was safe.

Teachers today have brought computers out of the isolation of labs and into the main learning area of the classroom, enabling access to the web for their students on demand. Whatever the merits of the so-called Digital Education Revolution, we now have computers, notebooks or PCs owned by the school or students, in classrooms , in most cases now playing a vitally important role in teaching and ...

JuSt When yOu thOuGht it WaS Safe a paSSiOn fOr riSk ManaGeMent

The SGS risk management process is implemented in full compliance with international standards e. g. ISO 31000, as a minimum requirement. The SGS team is committed to improving the delivery of risk management in terms of statistical processes, facilitated workshops for identification and assessment, development of better graphical communications of risk, more calibrated assessments, off-setting...

It was logical but was it the whole truth?

Calcific aortic stenosis (AS) was initially characterized as a degenerative process (disorder) because of a tendency to describe any disorder that was not well understood and often occurred in the ‘elderly’ as degenerative. In the last ‘15–20’ years, the observation of the presence of risk factors for arterial atherosclerosis in patients with calcific AS, the production of aortic valve calcific...

The Dog That Didn't Bark: Has Inflation Been Muzzled or Was It Just Sleeping?

2. Inflation and Unemployment during Recessions (mean change from beginning of recession, quarterly data) Despite large rises in unemployment during the Great Recession, inflation has been remarkably stable in almost all advanced economies. This is different from the recessions in the 1970s and 1980s, when inflation fell much more when unemployment rose. Figure 3.1. The Behavior of Inflation Ha...

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