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OKI Systems (UK) Ltd
When there are so many other demands on budget, it’s understandable that growing businesses remain reluctant to make large capital investments in new printing solutions. Instead they tend to purchase cheaper devices that are inefficient and not right for the task. However, there is an alternative.
Environmental challenges in the Polar Regions
Dr Jan-Gunnar Winther, Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute gives an overview of the environmental challenges facing the Polar Regions.
Scientific information from the Polar Regions boosts our knowledge of the environmental issues facing the world and is vital in order to grasp the challenges facing us, be it climate...
Eradicating cardiovascular diseases for good
Professor Joep Perk of Linnaeus University, and a member of the European Society of Cardiology, speaks to Editor Laura Evans about the importance of reducing cardiovascular diseases in Europe and how this can be achieved.
In Europe, cardiovascular diseases cause over 4 million deaths and over 1.9 million deaths in the European...
York Council uses tool to help families
A new tool which identifies the complex needs of vulnerable families has been launched in York.
The City of York Council's Family Focus Team has developed a new tool aimed at identifying strengths and weaknesses in vulnerable families.
The Family Wheel tool examines all areas of family life. This includes health...
Economic Development It’s about place making
For those involved at a strategic level in economic development, place making as a tool is not new but its time is certainly now in view of the significant transformation towards a knowledge based economy which is taking place. The most important component of this transformation is a much...
Behavioural Safety Past, Present & Future
Paul Bizzell, Operations Director at Ryder Marsh Safety Limited, explains the background to Behavioural Safety and briefs on current thinking about Safety Culture…
The actual origin of the term Behaviour Based Safety (BBS) is variously attributed to a number of psychologists. What is clear is that several people were working in...
Reducing the barriers for deafblind people
AG looks at how technology such as hearing aids can help people with deafblindness lead independent lives.
In the UK alone it is believed that there are around 250,000 deafblind people – which is a combination of sight and hearing impairment. The disability is one with very little understanding, and...
E-learning – from alternative to norm
Alastair Creelman, Vice-President at EFQUEL sheds light on why e-learning is no longer an alternative form of education.
The concept of e-learning is in danger of soon becoming redundant. In today’s digital society, where the European Commission forecasts that 90% of all jobs by 2020 will demand digital literacy, any...
Skaginn – Icelandic pioneers in Super Chilling
Driven by the ingenuity and innovational vision of its co-founder and now pioneer CEO, Skaginn's Super Chilling solutions offer a range of benefits. Through highly automated features, Super Chilling increases yield, preserves quality, adds to product value and can double shelf life. The efficient processing – now with a...
A Warning to the World
Dr Jan-Gunnar Winther, Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute gives an overview of the environmental challenges facing the Polar Regions.
Scientific information from the Polar Regions boosts our knowledge of the environmental issues facing the world and is vital in order to grasp the challenges facing us, be it climate...
Vienna: Planning for Change
Maria Vassilakou, Deputy Mayor of Vienna, gives an overview of the Vienna Urban Development Plan STEP 2025.
Vienna is immediately associated with culture, heritage and high quality of life, but this first impression is incomplete. The Vienna metropolitan region has seen an era of dynamic development since the political changes of...
Pfalzklinikum für Psychiatrie
Social and epidemiological changes present major challenges to the health systems of the Western industrial countries and, thus, also to the German health system. This goes along with the strengthening of the position of care profession among the actors in the health care sector which gives rise to diverse...
Flying the Flag
At long last, the Approved Documents L to the Building Regulations for Wales (ADL 2014) have come into force. Much like the English Approved Documents, they bring a renewed focus on building fabric performance; however there are also several noticeable differences between the two Documents, both for domestic and...
Volunteering: developing key employment skills
Volunteering can help young people develop essential skills they need for the world of work, here Fiona Blacke, CEO of the National Youth Agency details why.
It is a very difficult time to be young. The recession has hit young people particularly hard, with youth unemployment hovering just below a...
UK unemployment rates have fallen
Figures from the Office for National Statistics have revealed that unemployment figures are at the lowest rate since 2008.
Unemployment rates fell to 6.4 per cent in the three months leading up to the end of June. The figures, released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), represent the lowest...
Chemical biology and drug discovery
The power of flexible teamwork is the key to successful research in chemical biology and drug discovery in the work of Professor Colin Suckling at the Department of Pure and
Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Over the past 10 years, research has challenged major problems of...
Unlocking SME trade competitiveness
Rajesh Aggarwal, Acting Director in the Division of Business and Institutional Support at the International Trade Centre (ITC) provides insight into the role of SMEs in integrating successful international markets.
SMEs play an important role in every economy, more so in developing and the least developed countries, in terms of...
Weather extremes
Extreme weather events may cause severe damage to our society. Examples include hurricane Sandy in 2012 (the second-costliest hurricane in United States history), European windstorms Lothar and Martin in 1999, and, more recently, the exceptional sequence of floods in southern England in the winter of 2014. Insurance companies need...
Empowering the public sector
Louise Tibbert, President of the PPMA explains the importance of understanding the true costs of providing a good service, and how performance should be managed…
The perception of the public sector is that we do not focus on performance in the same way that perhaps the private sector does. Whilst...
The growing need for innovation in biobanking
Senior Research Analyst for Frost & Sullivan Divyaa Ravishankar discusses the growing need for innovative products in the realm of bio-storage applications.
The concept of biobanking has triggered massive interest in the area of long-term sample storage conditions but with a key challenge of maintaining sample integrity. In order to...
