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Logistics

A Buffer Against Stockouts: Safety Stock

Why do warehouses hold more inventory than they expect to sell? This article explains what safety stock is and how it relates to the reorder point, how to calculate it from the ser

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Journalism & communication

Why Does Only This Story Make the News? News Values

News values are the criteria that decide which events become news and how they are reported. This article covers Galtung and Ruge’s 1965 study that started the field, the main news

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Library & information science

KORMARC (Korean Machine-Readable Cataloging) Tag Reference

This time, I would like to write about MARC, which is used in libraries. MARC and cataloging cover such an extensive range of material that I plan to divide the discussion into sev

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Business administration

Why People Pay After Using It for Free: Freemium

Freemium is a pricing strategy that gives away a basic product or service for free and charges for better features, more capacity, or added convenience. This article covers where t

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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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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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Psychology

Rationalization: The Story Our Minds Create

Rationalization is a psychological defense mechanism that refers to the process by which people create logical explanations for their behavior or emotions. It is an attempt to just