BJPsych International: new name, new strategic focus

BJPsych International: new name, new strategic focus

NIEHS's New Strategic Plan

I am pleased to present " our " new strategic plan for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS 2012). I say that it's " our " plan because the entire document reflects tremendous thought, discussion, and sharing of ideas by hundreds of scientists and community stake holders, and it speaks to the entire field of environmental health research. This plan is about what we wil...

Strategic New JIT

This paper proposes “New JIT”, a new principle of next generation management technology that contributes to corporate management. New JIT consists of a hardware system founded on three core elements (TMS—Toyota Marketing System, TDS—Toyota Development System, and TPS—Toyota Production System), and a software system (TQM-S) (total quality management utilizing statistical quality control (SQC)) t...

A new name and a new synonym in Miconia (Melastomataceae)

The name Miconia densiflora Cogn. (1886) is a later homonym of Miconia densiflora (Gardner) Naudin (1851), but since we propose it as a taxonomic synonym of Miconia caudata (Bonpl.) DC. (1828), we do not provide a new name. The name Miconia longicuspisHerzog (1909) is a later homonym of Miconia longicuspis Cogn. (1891) and we here propose its replacement by Miconia longicuspidata S.S. Renner & ...

(GEOBIA): A new name for a new discipline

What is Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA)? To answer this we provide a formal definition of GEOBIA, present a brief account of its coining, and propose a key objective for this new discipline. We then, conduct a SWOT analysis of its potential, and discuss its main tenets and plausible future. Much still remains to be accomplished.