The objective of this project was to empower people of Blyth Valley in Northumberland (northeast England) to contribute to the management of their coastal heritage. A group of volunteers, the Links Conservation Group, working in collaboration with the environmental managers (Blyth Valley Borough Council), scientists, local specialists and other volunteers, ...

With a better understanding of the human genome, it is possible to tailor the medical care, including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, to an individual's needs. This revolution of medical care is called Personalised Medicine. This paper provides a brief review of recent progresses in high-throughput measurement technologies, their ...

We report a cooperation between the neural adhesion molecule close homolog of L1 (CHL1) and the semaphorin 3A (Sema3A) receptor, neuropilin 1 (Npn1), important for establishment of area-specific thalamocortical projections. CHL1 deletion in mice selectively disrupted the projection of somatosensory thalamic axons from the ventrobasal (VB) nuclei, causing them to ...

BiNoM (Biological Network Manager) is a new bioinformatics software that significantly facilitates the usage and the analysis of biological networks in standard systems biology formats (SBML, SBGN, BioPAX). BiNoM implements a full-featured BioPAX editor and a method of 'interfaces' for accessing BioPAX content. BiNoM is able to work with huge ...

Projected warming in Sweden and other Fennoscandian countries will probably increase growth rates of forest trees near their northern limits, increase the probability of new pest outbreaks, and foster northerly migration of both native and exotic species. The greatest challenges for sustainable forestry are to restore and enhance the ecological ...

OBJECTIVES: To measure the number of all transient ischaemic attack (TIAs) and minor strokes managed as outpatients, and hence, the need for 'TIA clinics' in comparison to current estimates of 20,000 TIAs annually in England, based on previous rates of incident-definite events. SUBJECTS: All individuals with confirmed or suspected TIA ...

The nature and scope of medical humanities are under debate. Some regard this field as consisting of those parts of the humanistic sciences that enhance our understanding of clinical practice and of medicine as historical phenomenon. In this article it is argued that aesthetic experience is as crucial to this ...

When a mature company fails to endure over the long term, it's often due to the "Horizon 2 vacuum," argues Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and several other books on innovation strategy, and managing director of the consulting firm TCG Advisors. The reference is to the strategic horizons outlined ...

BACKGROUND: The EUropean Project on obstetric Haemorrhage Reduction: Attitudes, Trial, and Early warning System (EUPHRATES) is a set of five linked projects, the first component of which was a survey of policies for management of the third stage of labour and immediate management of postpartum haemorrhage following vaginal birth in ...

This paper identifies and examines social-economic and environmental issues recently emerged in China's coastal zone. Evaluation of management scheme and progress in perspectives of coordinated legislation, institutional arrangement, public participation, capacity building, and scientific research (mainly coastal planning and functional zoning) in China's coastal zone are made. The Chinese government ...

In the 1980s, resource managers were increasingly concerned about effects of timber harvest on ungulates in National Forests. Land and resource management plans incorporated restrictions on timber harvest to maintain cover for Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni V. Bailey) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus Rafinesque), and habitat models ...

This article presents acuity and dosage as two concepts that describe how the business case for case management (CM) can be made. Dosage and acuity concepts are explained as client need-severity, CM intervention-intensity, and CM activity-dose by amount, duration, extent, and timing. Concepts are related to the practice of CM ...

When addressing the politics of sports medicine, it is often helpful to obtain the advice of people who work in the trenches and who have experiences that can be of benefit to clinicians in the field or who are contemplating going into the field. The goal of this project was ...

Cyclone aims at facilitating the use of BioCyc, a collection of Pathway/Genome Databases (PGDBs). Cyclone provides a fully extensible Java Object API to analyze and visualize these data. Cyclone can read and write PGDBs, and can write its own data in the CycloneML format. This format is automatically generated from ...

Mediante is a MIAME-compliant microarray data manager that links together annotations and experimental data. Developed as a J2EE three-tier application, Mediante integrates a management system for production of long oligonucleotide microarrays, an experimental data repository suitable for home made or commercial microarrays, and a user interface dedicated to the management ...

This article summarizes a research project that investigated the use, performance, cost, and evaluation of nonstructural measures to improve urban stormwater quality. A survey of urban stormwater managers from Australia, New Zealand, and the United States revealed a widespread trend of increasing use of nonstructural measures among leading stormwater management ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Quality improvement in chronic disease management is a major agenda for improving health and reducing health care costs. A six-component chronic disease management model can help guide this effort. Several characteristics of the "new model" of family medicine described by the Future of Family Medicine (FFM) Project ...

Investigating two longitudinal ethnographic studies of managing gradual adaptation of electronic patient records in Canada and Norway, we conduct a cross-case analysis of the enabling factors that support a continuous transformation of technology and health care practices. In line with previous research, our study shows that large-scale information systems adaptation ...

Doctor Joseph Gensoul (1797-1858) has at least two claims to fame as an ENT physician: he was the first to practise the total resection of the superior maxillary bone, and he described a disease that was later to be known as "Ludwig's angina". In this paper, we try to project ...

The @neurIST ontology is currently under development within the scope of the European project @neurIST intended to serve as a module in a complex architecture aiming at providing a better understanding and management of intracranial aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhages. Due to the integrative structure of the project the ontology needs ...

OBJECTIVES: To summarize and then assess with a pilot study the use of published best practice recommendations for priority setting during management of multiple healthcare research projects, in a resource-constrained environment. METHODS: Medical, economic, business, and operations literature was reviewed to summarize and develop a survey to assess best practices ...

This paper reports a recently finished, interdisciplinary project on rural wastewater management in Austria. The objective of the project was to study alternative wastewater management options based on separation of the wastewater into its constituent parts, and to compare them with conventional ones. Thereby, a feasibility study of both conventional ...

A collaboration of the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation of the University Health Network, the International Union against Cancer (UICC) eUICC initiative, Purdue Pharma and Mundipharma with partners in Latin America and leaders in the management and study of pain worldwide is described. This project evaluates methods of sharing and ...

Residual Douglas-fir and lodgepole pine are dwarf mistletoe-infested and pose a threat to existing regeneration. Felling or girdling these residuals, along with sanitation/thinning of dense patches of regeneration, will reduce dwarf mistletoe intensity and increase future volume yields. Present net worth of the project is $0.50/acre. Benefit/cost ratio is 1.01/1. ...

This study has as its aim to help to clarify the relationship between environmental management and economic performance by integrating it into a wider framework that includes the relationship between environmental strategy and firm performance, the latter being understood as the combination of environmental performance, competitive advantage and economic performance. ...

It is claimed by Rhodes, Morari, and Wiggins [Chaos 9, 108-123 (1999)] that the projection algorithm of Maas and Pope [Combust. Flame 88, 239-264 (1992)] identifies the slow invariant manifold of a system of ordinary differential equations with time-scale separation. A transformation to Fenichel normal form serves as a tool ...

AIM: This study explores and extends some recent Foucauldian critiques of reflection and clinical supervision in nursing. BACKGROUND: Although reflection is often accepted uncritically, several writers have claimed that it is being employed (albeit perhaps unwittingly) as a management tool to facilitate the governmentality of the workforce by establishing conditions ...

AIM: To study the effects of a team-based model for continuous quality improvement (CQI) on primary care practice management. DESIGN OF STUDY: Randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Twenty-six intervention and 23 control primary care practices in the Netherlands. METHOD: Practices interested in taking part in the CQI project were, after assessment ...

The projected spend on NHS agency staff for 2005-06 is around pounds sterling 1bn. Some trusts spend significantly more than 10 per cent of their total pay bill on non-NHS staff. NHS Employers points to huge potential savings from e-rostering. The software dramatically cuts time spent preparing rotas and also ...

Environmental risk assessment and decision-making strategies over the last several decades have become increasingly more sophisticated, information-intensive, and complex, including such approaches as expert judgment, cost-benefit analysis, and toxicological risk assessment. One tool that has been used to support environmental decision-making is comparative risk assessment (CRA), but CRA lacks a ...

Incorporate these guidelines into your practice, and utilize patient financing to maximize your treatment acceptance, and the cosmetic aspect of your practice will likely boom. No matter how much you want to do something, or how great your ideas are, if you aren't able to execute the project, nothing will ...

The project developed a community-based natural resource management as an acceptable and legal use of land in Cambodia. 130,000 ha of forest land and fihseries resources are now protected and manged by communities in the privince of Siem Reap. It recovnized that community-based natural resource management is essential to the ...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of work improvements in small enterprises (WISE) on workloads and productivity, and managers' satisfaction with those projects. Participating in this study from 1994 to 1996 were 9 small enterprises, 3 metal industries, 1 car parts manufacturing, 1 garment manufacturing, 1 ...

When Toronto-based University Health Network initiated its Medication Order Entry/Medication Administration Record project in 2001, it was well understood by the organization that this would be one of the largest change management initiatives undertaken, and would require rigorous project management, significant clinical involvement and a well-developed change management program.

Recognized as an early leader in clinical information systems, the University of Illinois Medical Center was challenged to meet the ever-increasing demand for information systems. Interviews with key stakeholders revealed unfavorable attitudes toward the Information Services department. Reasons given were that projects often are not aligned with business strategy, projects ...

This paper reports the findings from the European Practice Database project providing an overview of the technical aspects of haemodialysis treatment, comparing practice in Scotland and Belgium. Findings identified that in Scotland almost all centres (95%) employed renal technicians compared to 67% of centres in Belgium. There was also a ...

The first article in this series discussed the complexity and breadth of deciding what to do when relocating your practice. Assuming you have accomplished those tasks, you now need to undertake the job of actually getting that done. This section takes you from the conceptualization of the project to the ...

TOTAL QUALITY SYSTEM: The purpose of the project was to develop a total quality system in Transfusion Medicine which would serve as a model for development of a provincial transfusion quality system. Pilot studies were carried out in Ottawa and Hamilton/Niagara. Each region was provided with resources to create a ...

This paper examines local people's knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards Wolong Biosphere Reserve (WBR) and its management policies. Pertinent data were collected through a questionnaire survey and group discussions. This study revealed that local people's perceptions were affected by many factors, including education, gender, residence location, household size and acreage ...

Adaptive management is an approach to managing natural resources that emphasizes learning from the implementation of policies and strategies. Adaptive management appears to offer a solution to the management gridlock caused by increasing complexity and uncertainty. The concept of adaptive management has been embraced by natural resource managers worldwide, but ...

Strategic management is the process of adapting organizational structure and management principles to fit the strategic goal of the business unit. The pharmaceutical industry has generally been expert at optimizing its organizations for drug development, but has rarely implemented different structures for the early discovery process, where the objective is ...

More than a year ago, Chicago's Rush University Medical Center embarked on an ambitious project to implement enhanced investor disclosure practices. Among its keys to success are the following: Board and senior management buy-in is essential. Tailor the bondholder disclosure to comparable SEC practice. Increase the assurance of accuracy of ...

The purpose of this project is to estimate the ‘total economic value’ of a mangrove ecosystem in part of the Gulf of Fonseca, El Salvador, and to develop a costbenefit framework to compare the sustainable management of the forest with alternative use scenarios. The current management strategy is compared to ...

Microalgae are one of the most biologically important elements of worldwide ecology and could be the source of diverse new products and medicines. COBRA (The COnservation of a vital european scientific and Biotechnological Resource: microAlgae and cyanobacteria) is the acronym for a European Union, RTD Infrastructures project (Contract No. QLRI-CT-2001-01645). ...

In participatory ergonomic (PE) interventions, "how" effective participation by workplace parties can be achieved remains unclear. We conducted a case study of the dynamics of an ergonomic change team (ECT) process in a medium-sized (175 employees) automotive foam manufacturing plant. We present analyses of observer field notes and post-intervention interviews ...

The construction of the Almaraz nuclear power plant in Spain in the 1970s posed interesting environmental problems concerning the construction of a cooling reservoir (Arrocampo reservoir) to cool the steam condensers and the consequent heating of the reservoir's water. The socio-political context forced decision makers to set up a project ...

The National Implementing Evidence-Based Practice Project is an ongoing effort to promote the implementation of effective practices for adults who have severe mental illnesses. The project members designed and developed integrated packages of materials and services to help practice sites implement evidence-based practices and is field-testing the approach in eight ...

This study examined the validity and incremental validity of the Constructive Thinking Inventory in a sample of Iranian managers. These 159 men were 39.9 yr. old (SD=2.5) and volunteered to participate in a project in which they responded to the Constructive Thinking Inventory, the Big Five Factors, the Costello and ...

In the CholGate project we performed a preliminary study evaluating user requirements and knowledge level on lipid management in 40 primary care practices in The Netherlands. Practitioners rated speed, usability and completeness as important. We hope to show that the knowledge level of physicians regarding lipid management can be passively ...

The most detailed and well-documented project plan or process improvement initiative will certainly fall short of expectations if the appropriate team is not assembled to execute it. A standing operational implementation team, representing all major stakeholders in the organization, takes the guesswork out of who to engage and when. Applying ...