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Design

White Space in Design: Creative Ways to Use Space

In design, 'white space' is often readily regarded as a simple background or empty space. In reality, however, white space (margins) is an important element that brings out creativ

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Business administration

How to Maximize Market Opportunities Through PEST Analysis

Systematically analyzing a company's external environment is very important when developing a business strategy. One widely used tool for analyzing this external environment is PES

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Logistics

Logistics That Skips the Warehouse: Cross-Docking

Cross-docking is a logistics operation in which incoming freight is not stored long-term but is sorted, transshipped, and shipped out right away. This article covers its definition

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Statistics

Twenty-Three People Are Enough: The Birthday Paradox

Why is it so likely that two people in a small group share a birthday? This article covers the birthday paradox, the two keys to calculating it, why our intuition misses it, and ho

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Business administration

Watching Changes Things: The Hawthorne Effect

Why does performance often jump right after a new management practice is introduced, only to slip back later? This article explains the Hawthorne effect: its definition and the ori

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Tourism studies

A Journey That Peeks Behind the Stage: Staged Authenticity

Staged authenticity is the idea that tourist destinations present a version of local life arranged to look genuine to visitors. This article covers the basic concept, the six stage

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Library & information science

The Family Tree of Research Papers: Citation Indexes

How do you find the studies that have cited a paper you are reading? This article explains how Eugene Garfield's citation index came about and what it is, how to search backward an

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Earth science

The Mystery of Gravity: The Universe's Hidden Force

Gravity is an essential part of our everyday lives and one of the fundamental forces of the universe. Through gravity, we pull objects toward the ground, and it affects everything

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Design

The More Choices, the Slower the Decision: Hick's Law

Why do decisions take longer the more options there are? This article explains Hick's Law, covering its meaning and origins in a lamp experiment, decision time that grows logarithm