She has more than three decades of PPM experience, leading project professionals to deliver successful initiatives. She is accredited in many PPM and supports Best Practices. Sheila is passionate about the need for resilience and facilitating progress. Sheila is a co-author of ‘Business Resilience;...
There areMANY published studiesthat have documented the horrible adverse effects of lead in children and adults. There is NO “safe” level of lead for children and studies have shown connection between blood levels over 5 and: • diminished intelligence (lowered IQ) • decreased brain volume ...
(because strain is generally represented by the Greek letter ε) is appended after the number. (This is the same way of thinking that is used with “%” and “ppm.”)Because strain represents a small value, micro strain is expressed with the prefix “µ” (micro, 1 × 10−6) as...
Example:Think of all the pharmaceutical materials developed that never make it to market as a medical product. Sometimes they do not receive regulatory approval. Or the development lead time overshadows the patent’s lifetime. Maybe only one in five projects is actually successful. Given this sce...
Mineral water: Mineral water is spring water that has at least 250 parts per million (ppm) of total dissolved solids (TDS) in it. These "dissolved solids" are minerals like calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium, and they must be present in the water at the source, not added later. ...
intensive to separate the many components of electronic equipment, and market prices for electronic scrap aren't high. In fact, it costs consumers and businesses money to recycle electronics, and there's a variety of toxic materials found in them, such as mercury, lead and chemical refrigerants...
There have been many studies investigating the susceptibility of biofilms to disinfection. These studies highlighted that the lack of disinfectant efficacy was associated with biofilm thickness and maturity [66,74,75] or the presence of persisters [76] (Fig.1). Whilst there are several parameters ...
To throw the issue of ex-post redistribution into sharp relief, note first that many of the three billion “losers” will have actually died due to the climate and economic disruptions and cannot possibly be compensated by those who continue to live—to academically talk about “potential compens...
Yang is among the many professionals using the PPM process:“We prioritize our projects by their potential impact on and relative alignment with the business objectives. For example, in the last year, we have been working on developing a new line of fitness equipment — increasing sales by 30...
Many kids in this country get fluoride from their drinking water, their toothpaste and the occasional treatment in the dentist's office. What is fluoride, though, and why does it support healthy teeth? Sarah Clark, M.P.H., research scientist in the Department of Pediatrics at Michigan Medicin...