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TAKE TWO HOURS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING It’s а medicаl fаct: Spending time оutdооrs, especially in green spaces, is good for you. A wealth of research indicates that escaping to a neighborhood park, hiking through the woods, or spending a weekend by the lake can lower a person’s stress levels, decrease blood pressure and reduce the risk of asthma, allergies, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, while boosting mental health and increasing life expectancy. Doctors around the world have begun prescribing time in nature as a way of improving their patients’ health. One question has remained: How long, or how frequently, should you experience the great outdoors in order to reap its great benefits? Is there a recommended dose? Just how much nature is enough? According to a paper published in June, 2019, in the journal Scientific Reports, the answer is about 120 minutes each week. The study examined data from nearly 20,000 people in England who took part in a survey from 2014 to 2016, which asked them to record their activities within the past week. It found that people who spent two hours a week or more outdoors reported being in better health and having a greater sense of well-being than people who didn’t get out at all. Spending just 60 or 90 minutes in nature did not have as significant an effect. And five hours a week in nature offered no additional health benefits. “What really amazed us was that this was true for all groups of people,” said Mathew P. White, an environmental psychologist at the University of Exeter Medical School, who led the study. “Two hours a week was the threshold for both men and women, older and younger adults, different ethnic groups, people living in richer or poorer areas, and even for those living with long term illnesses.” It did not matter how close people lived to recreational spaces or how often they frequented them, as long as they accumulated two hours of outdoor time each week. “Nature is not like a pill you get prescribed by your doctor that you have to take in small doses every day,” Dr. White said. “What matters most is that you’re able to fit it into your lifestyle.” Not everyone has the benefit of living near natural landscapes or parks that they can visit every day. But they can still get the same benefits by taking a long walk on one day, or making a trip to a recreational area on a weekend. Teasing out the exact cause of these health benefits is difficult. Does being outdoors encourage physical activity? Would anything that gets you off the couch and away from screens improve your health? Or are healthier, happier people simply more likely to spend time outdoors? “Most studies like this are cross-sectional, so they only look at one point in time,” said Carla Nooijen, a researcher at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, in Stockholm, whose research has examined the effects of natural environments. Tracking habits and responses over a period of time may help shed light on the possible mechanisms, she said. Still, nature prescriptions are growing in popularity. In Sweden, friluftsliv, the term for living close to nature, is so ingrained in everyday life — from commuting by bike to relaxing in lakeside saunas — that there are tax breaks offered as incentives for the lifestyle. In South Korea, the government is establishing dozens of “healing forests” for its stressed-out citizens. And last year a national hospital system in Scotland began allowing doctors to write scripts for outdoor activities as a routine part of patient care. The latest study is a major first step toward developing concrete guidelines for nature prescriptions, akin to the guidelines for weekly exercise. “This study will help clinicians like me better advise patients,” Dr. Razani said. And, she added, it provides a realistic target that most people can achieve. Low-cost and low-risk, it’s just what the doctor ordered.
MAINTAINING WORKERS IN A DIGITAL WORLD Mаchines аre leаrning hоw tо perfоrm routine tasks and more complicated ones, and their progress is piquing employers’ interests. The retail and health industries stand the most to gain from incorporating artificial intelligence into work. Both could see a 50 percent revenue increase, according to a new Accenture report. And if all companies invest in AI at a rate similar to that of top-performing businesses, companies could boost their revenues by 38 percent. Despite all of the talk of machines taking away jobs, the study also found that 100 percent of CEOs who plan to use artificial intelligence intend to use that AI to enhance, not diminish, their workers’ capabilities. Enhancing workers’ capabilities could pay off substantially. As an example, the research notes that pathologists without AI are able to identify cancer cells accurately 96 percent of the time and that machines without humans are able to identify the cells accurately 92 percent of the time. But when humans and machines work together, they identify the cells almost 100 percent of the time. Because implementing artificial intelligence would create new positions—such as people who would train machines or ensure that the machines do not hurt humans—employment could increase by 10 percent due to the increased need for human-machine collaboration. Humans would need new digital skills to collaborate with machines, and “human-interface designers” (the people ensuring that machines are user-friendly) would become invaluable. The report found that workers across age groups are interested in developing new skills—the challenge is that they don’t always get the support they need to acquire them. Schools attempt to provide students with skills such as computer programming that will become increasingly important in the future, yet the highly uneven access to quality education puts certain populations at a disadvantage. Federal job-training programs similarly strive to help people gain new and marketable skills, but they struggle to achieve noteworthy results on a large scale. Workers who need digital skills could instead turn to their employers, especially the companies embracing the new technologies that are changing the very nature of their work. But fewer than 3 percent of executives plan in the next three years to significantly increase investment in training programs that would help laborers work in tandem with machines. Meanwhile, 58 percent plan to slightly increase training, and 39 percent plan to keep their training the same. Companies “are at the very early stage of understanding that human-machine collaboration is where the real value is,” said Ellyn Shook, who co-authored the report, suggesting that most executives are focused on introducing machines to help workers but haven’t figured out how to match machines up with human talent to maximize results. Curiously, while employers seem to benefit the most from training workers, they appear to be the most reluctant compared to educators and the federal government when it comes to investing in training. That’s largely because employers are more focused on instant gratification. Unlike the 1970s, when employers reinvested the majority of their profits into training programs, today’s employers tend to reinvest their profits into dividends. That means a massive shift in corporate culture would need to occur—companies would need to realize that training is worth the investment. “People want to learn and if you are offering training, that is an inducement to join the firm,” said Rick Wartzman, who has researched employer loyalty. “Folks would stick around if you are investing in them.” Some companies choose not to invest in training because they haven’t been able to foster employee loyalty. What if after having invested in training, employees leave for a better opportunity? One solution is to have employers in certain industries convene to fund training initiatives at local community colleges or nonprofit organizations. No one sector bears all of the training responsibility. For Shook, “a strong collaboration between companies, organized labor, government, and academia to radically rethink how we are going to prepare people for the future workforce” is necessary. Still, when public-sector programs fail, it tends to be because of a gap between the needs of the marketplace and what is going on in the classroom—and that demonstrates the need for employer involvement.
Phоsgene decоmpоses аccording to the following reаction: COCl2(g) ⇌ CO(g) + Cl2(g) If the reаction mixture initially contains `x` M COCl2, calculate the equilibrium concentration of CO if K c for the reaction at this temperature is `y` × 10 -4. Report your answer in scientific notation with the correct number of significant figures and the correct units. You can use scientific/exponential notation to represent numeric values. Eg., -0.0001 can be written as 1.0e-4 or as 1.0E-4. Spaces are not allowed.