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Business administration

Promoted to the Level of Incompetence: The Peter Principle

The Peter Principle is the claim that in a hierarchy, people tend to be promoted until they reach a position where their incompetence shows. This article covers its basic definitio

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Food & nutrition

The Wisdom of Cooking Corn in Ash Water: Nixtamalization

Nixtamalization is a traditional Mesoamerican method of cooking and steeping dried corn in an alkaline solution such as limewater, then washing and hulling it. Learn its history, h

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Food & nutrition

The Secret of Foods That Don't Spoil: Water Activity

Why doesn't honey spoil easily even though it contains water? This article explains water activity, a measure of the free water in food, and how it is measured, the limits below wh

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Logistics

First Come, First Out: First In, First Out (FIFO)

First In, First Out (FIFO) is the inventory practice of shipping out goods in the order they arrived. We look at what FIFO means and why it matters, the related methods of First Ex

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Business administration

An Overview of Revenue Models for Online Businesses

One of the first things to consider when running a business is how to generate revenue through its services. Therefore, to sustain and grow a business, you should start with a clea

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Information technology

Waiting on Each Other Until Everything Stops: Deadlock

A deadlock is a state in which several programs each wait for a resource the other holds, so none of them can move forward. This article covers how deadlocks arise, the four Coffma

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Earth science

The Whole Sea Comes Rushing In: Tsunami

A tsunami is a series of giant, very long waves created when a huge volume of seawater is displaced at once by an undersea earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption. This piece c

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Tourism studies

A Shop That Sells Without Taxes: The Duty-Free Shop

A duty-free shop sells goods to travelers leaving the country without customs duties or value-added tax. This article covers how duty-free shops began, why they can drop taxes, the

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Library & information science

What You Found and What You Missed: Precision and Recall

When a search list looks right at the top, how do you know what was left out? This piece explains precision and recall, the trade-off between them, the F1 score that combines both,