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Psychology Undergraduate

Cognitive Load Theory and the Design of Instructional Materials

Cognitive load theory holds that instructional design should minimise demands on working memory that do not contribute to learning. This essay examines the distinction between intrinsic, extraneous and germane load, reviews the worked-example and split-attention effects, and considers the expertise-reversal effect as a genuine constraint on the theory's prescriptions.

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Law & Politics Master's

Constitutional Limits on Emergency Executive Power

Emergency powers present constitutional systems with a structural paradox: the conditions that justify their use are the conditions under which oversight is weakest. This paper compares sunset-clause, judicial-review and legislative-ratification models of constraint, and argues that only ex ante temporal limits reliably survive the emergencies they are designed for.

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Computer Science Master's

Ethical Frameworks for Algorithmic Decision-Making in Public Services

When a public body delegates a decision to an algorithm, it does not thereby escape the obligation to justify that decision. This paper examines three competing frameworks for algorithmic accountability — procedural, outcome-based and contestability-centred — and argues that only the third adequately preserves the administrative-law principle that affected parties can demand reasons.

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Business & Management Master's

Organisational Culture and Post-Merger Integration Failure

The majority of mergers fail to deliver their projected synergies, and cultural incompatibility is the most frequently cited cause. This paper interrogates that explanation, arguing that 'culture clash' often functions as a post-hoc label for failures of integration planning that were structural and foreseeable.

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Economics Master's

Monetary Policy Transmission in Small Open Economies

In a small open economy the exchange-rate channel often dominates the interest-rate channel, inverting the textbook ordering of monetary transmission. This paper examines that inversion using evidence from inflation-targeting economies and considers what it implies for central banks whose mandates were written with a closed-economy model in mind.