inviting disaster lessons from the edge of technology

... Lessons from the Game of Golf The Course This unique golf course consists of eighteen holes, each one devoted to a principle of management Like any other 18-hole course, there are a number of obstacles ... elements and factors that make up the swing, and even the frequency of the swing But then who is the customer? The answer is the ball! This particular customer is perhaps the most demanding, unpredictable, ... to improve their performance—that’s why they play Sharing the golfing experience with others while trying to improve their own game is what the game is all about Why can’t some of the same factors...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 08:20

... point on the curves is the mean of three independent determinations (SD £ 3%) Influence of membrane thickness on the antibacterial activity of the peptides The possibility of modifying the A laidlawii ... the susceptibility of mollicutes to melittin and the LK peptides was independent of the amount of cholesterol in the membranes of these bacteria Table Antibacterial activities of LK peptides and ... similar to those of mellitin, LK15(3.6) and Dns-LK15(3.6) were the most efficient of the LK peptides for the four types of membranes, i.e independent of the membrane thickness Their inhibitory...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... knowledge, and abilities, as well as their attitudes toward the administrator It also depends on the nature of the activities, the lines of authority in the organization, the integrity of their ... organization They work at the process of institutional renewal They allow the institution to improve continuously They preserve and revitalize the values of the institution They mitigate the tendency of ... notions of teamwork and the value of each individual’s contribution to the final product The synergy an effective team produces is greater than the sum of its parts The foundation of the team is the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 22:20

... consumption As the plane crested the top of the building, I knew the images were getting good, and by the time the plane reached the top of the frame—and thus also the top of the Capitol dome—I ... marking the end of the Gulf War The cover of Cigar Lifestyles magazine was one of many of the reuses of the Harrier image 26 Don’t Let the Fear of Striking Out Get in Your Way T he title of this ... from the Edge of Reality Waiting in the colonnade to go into the Oval A quick snap of me in the window, waiting to get into the Oval, with the Rose Garden in the background 10 Pool Spray in the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:21

... communities within the CLAHRCs The paper will start with a brief discussion of the structure and purposes of the CLAHRCs and the main premises of the CoP approach It will then explore the following ... ‘stage -of- change’ theories used in the field of implementation research [66] The main strength of the CoP theory is that it is able to provide a basis for the development and delivery of theoryinformed ... Finally, in their study of a multiprofessional radiotherapy unit, Tagliaventi and Mattarelli [26] emphasise the importance of flexibility of professional identities as a facilitator of knowledge transfer...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... evaluation was designed to explore the quality of the outputs of the IMP and of the commissioning process Our findings regarding the impact of the work funded and about the difficulties faced by those ... interpreted as a lack of knowledge about the IMP as a whole There was a better response to the postal survey sent to midwives A summary of the figures from the 100 out of 227 questionnaires returned ... role of the IMP as a whole in this Questionnaires to potential users on the dissemination and use of research findings While the projects were funded on the basis of their contribution to the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... final daredevil dive—by leaping from the edge of space “Fearless Felix,” as he has been called, broke the record for the highest skydive ever by leaping from a height of 128,100 feet! That’s 24 miles ... 100-pound spacesuit to protect his body from deadly conditions high in the air Because of the low pressure in this part of the atmosphere, his blood and other bodily fluids would begin to boil ... air pressure on the ground It also protected him from the extreme cold at that height At one point in the jump, Baumgartner’s visor started to fog up Then he began spinning out of control This...

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2016, 10:14

... search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods Quote from Kepler ... Did he who made the Lamb, make thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Lesson The mother of mathematics is astronomy/astrology ... God is a Mathematician William Blake 1757-1827 William Blake: The Ancient of Days William Blake: Newton The Tyger by William Blake • Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/12/2016, 16:20

... estimated costs of production and then the entire value of the equipment There is left the net value of the copper ore But these proceeds are to be obtained over a series of years, and are therefore ... from the micro the abrogation of the Great Western lease, to the macro the “disastrous” shortage of shipping tonnage capacity on the Great Lakes After finding out from an interview with one of ... reports of the Great Northern Iron Ore properties have been full of data but very bare of information Instead of the familiar statement of a corporation to its stockholders they represent the accounting...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2018, 11:35

... recognition of the clarity of certain messages, we have reproduced the text provided in the response The variation in the length of the various sections is a reflection of the number of questions ... entrenching the position of the Big 4" Academics Group auditors should have access to the reports and other documentation of all auditors of components of the group 22 4 SUPERVISION The Profession Professional ... that there were more than 200 replies identical in their content; these were all received from the German audit profession The second biggest group of respondents were the preparers of the accounts...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20

... after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Taking into account the characteristics of the evolution of real credit, the variable under analysis in the rest of this paper is defined as the change in the ... the crisis while it decreased in the rest of Asia In the case of Mexico, the recovery of real credit took longer than in the rest of the region (ii) By the end of 2009, real credit growth and ... currency is another source of a currency mismatch In either of these two examples, a s harp depreciation of the local currency might severely impede the financial position of the debtor In the first...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... either the likelihood a loan is repaid (and thus, the cost of a loan) or the availability of credit These results highlight the distinct tradeoff between 1) limiting the collection and use of ... grouped into thee categories so that the authors could examine the impact of simple vs detailed amounts of credit file data The first category included only the number of inquiries from other creditors ... models explain the evolution of credit bureaus and the lending markets they support? Japelli and Pagano (1999) provide one of the very few attempts to test the predictions of the theoretical models...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... feed The poor condition of livestock often made evacuation uneconomic as well as reducing the resilience of livestock to cope with the eruption impacts and the stresses of transport The lack of ... likely to evacuate their farms and were less likely to return, citing they did not have the physical or emotional energy to recover from the eruption event The impact of the loss of financial equity ... crushing for displaced elderly farmers, who either expected to retire on their land or use the money from the sale of their farm to support retirement The death of animal populations on a large scale...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... feed The poor condition of livestock often made evacuation uneconomic as well as reducing the resilience of livestock to cope with the eruption impacts and the stresses of transport The lack of ... likely to evacuate their farms and were less likely to return, citing they did not have the physical or emotional energy to recover from the eruption event The impact of the loss of financial equity ... crushing for displaced elderly farmers, who either expected to retire on their land or use the money from the sale of their farm to support retirement The death of animal populations on a large scale...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... DoCoMo, however, lacked the technology to realize the idea, and since they didn’t have the musical software in the first place, the absence of the technology meant of course that the ringtone idea ... benefit most at the end of the day is the original creator of the platform And these people will, quite naturally, be the big winners of the 21st century How much of a “place” can you offer to people? ... president of DoCoMo, to look at ways of making money other than telephone charges The leader then consulted the director of a friend’s company He was introduced to lady of the editor of the magazine,...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... mediator release from phagocytes It is likely that IC models mimic part of the RA pathology There is growing interest in the use of passive IC models, together with a range of transgenic knockouts, ... similar form of arthritis also developed in targeted mutant mice lacking the 3’ AU-rich elements, confirming the role of these elements in the maintenance of a physiological TNF response in the joint ... 10 11 12 13 14 The Scientific Basis of Rheumatology: A Decade of Progress This article is part of a special collection of reviews, The Scientific Basis of Rheumatology: A Decade of Progress, published...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... fortifying the immunological control of FV [57-59] On the other hand, CD4+ Tregs down-regulate the immune responses of CD4+ Th cells [32,58] and CD8+ CTLs [39,60-62] thus, prolonging the recovery from ... differentiation of virus-specific CD4+ T cells during FV infection revealed a prominent Tfh profile [94] At the peak of the response, up to 40% of the virusspecific CD4+ T cells in the spleen were ... is determined by the nature of the infectious agent and the inflammatory milieu formed by the pathogen [103-105] Although T cell help may be dispensable in the priming phase of the CD8 + T cell...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:21

... further, we plotted the sequence conservation as a function of the distance from the start of the corresponding genes (Figure 2) We found that in the first 500 bp the sequence conservation of the ... are found in the introns of coding genes and therefore are probably regulated by the promoters of the genes in which they reside [26], others are located in the intergenic parts of the genome Little ... For these reasons, the conservation rates of the promoters of 513 human genes are also analyzed in relation to the turnover of the 1,162 TFBSs they contain Relationships between conservation of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... Communications,’’ was the same Even the boxy, 3-D logos at the top center of the invoices matched But the descriptions of the purchases did not In the body of the Squire invoice, in place of ‘‘design and ... out of the beautiful home that was no longer theirs Along with the house, most of their possessions had been sold, and they were returning to Ohio with the children As they placed the last of their ... buildings of the 30 or so local galleries and furniture stores that Fairbanks patronized I opened the photo album to the picture of the Squire storefront and set it at the edge of the conference...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 17:54