MeNerney also emphasized the value of 5 initia- tives that he put in place at 3M; indirect cust contrel, global sourcing, e-productivity, Six Sigma, and the 3M Acceleration program. With regard to indirect case control, some $800 million had been taken out of 3M’s cost structure since...
A coworker who wanted to pass him near the door of a temporary tool storage structure, called a doghouse, told him to move and added the N-word to the command. “I didn’t move because that’s not my name,” Pryce said later. But as weeks went by, the coworker kept using...
Cost of careAsthma monitoringForced expiratory volume at 1 s (FEV-1)Guidelines have called for pharmacologic stepped care to improve asthma treatment. Therapeutic options which have been approved provide physicians and their patients alternatives for stepping up asthma treatment to achieve control. ...
In addition, several genetic studies have identified putative susceptible loci and genetic variants, including sortilin-related receptor (SORL1) [5,6], death-associated protein kinase 1 (DAPK1) [7], ubiquilin 1 (UBQLN1) [8], adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter 1, subfamily A (A...
When I finally relaxed a little and convinced myself the snake had found another interest, I hastened to the inviting shade of a gum tree near the side of the road and sat down to rest. The strain of standing perfectly still and the terror of the moment had left me exhausted. Sitting ...
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there is potential for renewables to scale up in providing for non-electricity energy sectors. Other alternative and cost-effective sources of renewable energy can also be used for desalination. Renewable energy sources such as wind can be used to generate electricity for use in desalination plants...
Despite its theoretical appeal, some detected a number of problems in the explanation advanced by Ewald and with the trade-off model in general. For other evolutionary ecologists, Ewald’s cost-benefit argument is too adaptationist – i.e. virulence is depicted as beingalwaysadaptive for the par...
3.3. Near-Death Experiences Indeed, near-death experiences also often include the feeling of having left one’s own body and floating above the scene. One of my patients told me: “In 1945, after a severe shrapnel injury, I had my first hallucination: I was lying in bed in the hospital...
The archaeological site of villa Horta da Torre in Portugal reveals distinctive architectural features within the context of Roman villae in Hispania. Notably, the triclinium was designed with an artificial cascade originating from a double apse wall, an