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Quantitative Literacy: A Tool for Survival
Numeracy, 2020 In the context of a global pandemic, the need for quantitative literacy has become more urgent. QL and QL-adjacent habits of mind, such as awareness of the limitations of data and modeling, are vital tools of survival that can help people understand today's fast-changing world and make decisions about next actions, in particular in relation to the ...
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The teaching of biochemistry in higher education presents several challenges, including the complexity of molecular visualization, the use of technical terminology, and the vast amount of content covered in courses. This systematic review explores current research on biochemistry teaching at the higher education level published between 2012 ...
Micaela Jardim e Silva +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence, Basic Skills, and Quantitative Literacy
Numeracy, 2023 The introduction in November 2022 of ChatGPT, a freely available language-based artificial intelligence, has led to concerns among some educators about the feasibility and benefits of teaching basic writing and critical thinking skills to students in the context of easily accessed, AI-based cheating mechanisms.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship is increasingly reframed beyond profit maximisation toward models that integrate cultural resilience, sustainability and socio‐ecological responsibility. This study examines how Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and Sustainable Strategies (SS) jointly influence entrepreneurial success (ES), addressing a gap where culturally ...
Henry Adeyemi Aluko +6 more
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Parts of the Whole: Only Connect
Numeracy, 2014 This is the first of several columns that will focus on the mechanisms by which new ideas become accepted by a culture, offering some familiar examples, deriving basic principles from these examples, and applying them to the problem of promoting ...
Dorothy Wallace
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The apparel industry is one of the world's most profitable sectors but also among the most environmentally damaging. Growing sustainability pressures have led companies to adopt diverse strategies to reduce their impact, yet no single study has systematically analysed these approaches or their consumer implications.
Maria Leonor Ferreira +1 more
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Unquantifiable: The Impacts of Len Vacher
NumeracyThis article celebrates H.L. (Len) Vacher, the founding editor of Numeracy. While many readers of this journal are no doubt familiar with Len’s contributions here and to quantitative literacy as a practice and habit of mind, fewer are intimately familiar
Victor Ricchezza, Nathan Grawe
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The blue economy has emerged as a key sector for linking sustainability and innovation, yet existing research has largely overlooked how firms operationalize these processes in practice. This study addresses that gap by asking: How do Portuguese blue economy firms embed sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI) into their strategies, and what ...
Jennifer Nicole Elston +2 more
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Quantitative Literacy: Now More Than Ever
Numeracy, 2018 This editorial highlights the eloquent words of Drs. Bernard Madison and Lynn Arthur Steen who, in the inaugural issue of Numeracy, note that quantitative literacy (QL) provides “tools for survival” in a highly competitive world. I discuss how QL is desperately needed at a precarious time for our nation’s democracy and how at LaGuardia Community ...
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biodiversity‐related financial risk is increasingly recognized not only as a market concern but as an ethical and systemic imperative for businesses and financial institutions. This systematic literature review synthesizes 103 peer‐reviewed studies to examine how biodiversity risk is conceptualized, measured, and integrated within financial ...
Thang Ngoc Dang +3 more
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