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Psychology
The Stroop Effect is the phenomenon in which naming the ink color of a word slows down and errors increase when the word's meaning and its color do not match. We look at the 1935 e
Food & nutrition
Caramelization is the reaction in which sugar, heated to high temperatures, breaks down and recombines into brown compounds and aroma molecules. We look at how it works, the temper
Social welfare
The strengths perspective is a social work approach that places the talents, resources, and hopes of people, families, and communities at the center of helping. We look at its orig
Physics
Bernoulli’s principle says that within a single flow, a fluid’s pressure drops where it speeds up and rises where it slows down. This piece covers how the principle came about, the
Logistics
Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is an inventory approach in which the supplier sees the buyer’s sales and stock data and decides and takes responsibility for when and how much to re
Library & information science
Library anxiety is the discomfort, worry, and fear people feel when they need to find and use materials in a library, and the urge to avoid asking for help that comes with it. This
Robotics
A collaborative robot, or cobot, is a robot designed to share a workspace with people and to reduce its own force and speed when it comes close or makes contact, so no one gets hur
Design
The Doherty Threshold is the principle that when a computer responds within about 0.4 seconds, people and machines stop waiting on each other and productivity rises sharply. This p
Education
Transfer of learning is the way earlier knowledge or skills affect learning and problem solving in new situations. This piece covers the concept and its origins, the main types of
Tourism studies
Last chance tourism is travel to see vanishing landscapes, wildlife, or cultures before they are gone. This piece covers the concept and its origins, why people are drawn to it, we
Economics
Engel's law is the empirical rule that as income rises, the share of total spending that goes to food steadily falls. This piece covers the basic concept, the Engel coefficient and
Business administration
The value chain is a framework that breaks a company's work down into individual activities to see where value is created and where costs leak. This piece covers the basic concept,
