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Why you don’t need continuous improvement
Why bother with continuous improvement when you already have the most efficient and effective organisation you could possibly have?
You’ve coped long enough without it,...
Health Care: Using lean to transform a hospital into a rehabilitation centre
South Karelia Social and Health Care District (Eksote) provides publicly funded social and health care to 133 000 citizens of South Karelia in South-Eastern...
Intravenous Access
Obtaining vascular access is a critical first step in resuscitation and initiating treatment to patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED). Patients may have...
IAPD: Beyond the violence of being a brick in the wall
Dr Kevin Flint from the IAPD discusses modern education.
In my last paper presented to this website I was concerned about the style of educational...
ACXIS – Improving the inspection procedures for Customs organizations
A report from the ACXIS research project funded by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme
Border control is receiving increased attention in recent...
SAFEPOST Project Pilots
Dr Antonino Scribellito, European Affairs –Senior Project Manager at PostEurop highlights how SAFEPOST has enhanced security in postal systems across Europe…
SAFEPOST enhanced the security...
A Public Health Approach to Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines child maltreatment as, “… the abuse and neglect that occurs to children under 18 years of age. It...
Development of integrated non-invasive methods for cancer diagnosis and treatment
Stuart J. Corr1,2,3, Steven Curley1,4, Zhihui Wang5,6, and Vittorio Cristini5,6
1Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department...
Has education become another arm of ‘State Philosophy’?
In so many of our practices it is difficult to stand outside the full force of the groundings of what Deleuze called ‘state philosophy’....
Automated Comparison of X-ray Images for cargo Scanning (ACXIS)
The project ACXIS brings together the expertise in X-ray cargo inspection of leading research centres in Germany, France and Switzerland, the major European supplier...
Need Help Making Sense of Print Workflow?
Andrew Hall, marketing manager, Oki Systems UK discusses how managed print services can help construction firms future-proof their printing needs.
With the major focus on...
Pfalzklinikum and the Alliance against Depression Landau-Südliche Weinstraße e.V.: Challenges in 2016
The targets of the Alliance’s work are information on depression and its treatment possibilities, destigmatization as well as information on concrete contact points and...
Biobased electrospun nanofibers for recovery of precious metals from e-waste liquid streams
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) also known as “e-waste” is actually one of the fastest growing waste streams all around the world. This...
Staking a Carbon Claim
Carbon sequestration is a concept that has been pervasive in discussions of climate change research and policy. The idea is simple enough. Any process,...
Digital Innovation in the Public Sector – Why So Slow?
Digital innovation has the opportunity to transform public services to meet the needs of our changing population, deliver efficiencies and improve performance. Public sector...
The importance of management social-interpersonal skills
In its recent report QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE , The Chartered Management Institute has reported that workplace anxiety, stress and depression is on the...
Lean Tools vs. Lean Philosophy
The pace of doing business today is so fast that there is not a lot of time left to consider proper planning or dare...
Implementing Bioeconomy with Electrobiorefinery
Food, chemical and industrial sectors are challenged with the growing population, increasing longevity and quality of life. In consequence, the demand for fossils energy...
Peer work in mental health – The major break-through of obstinacy?
Now we see it happen again: an apparently new term appears in the sky of psychiatry: "peer work". It means that now ill people...
Practice, experience and research-philosophy-education: A personal profile
Setting up and running the professional doctorate programme at Nottingham Trent brought together dimensions of my experience in education, research, philosophy, rock-climbing/mountaineering, so constituting...
