Changing Values, Changing Technologies

Changing Technologies of HPC

In 1993 for the rst time a list of the top 500 supercomputer sites worldwide has been made available. The Top500 list allows a much more detailed and well founded analysis of the state of high performance computing. Previously data such as the number and geographical distribution of supercomputer installations were di cult to obtain, and only a few analysts undertook the e ort to track the pres...

Structural Approach to Changing Organizational Cultural Values

Changing organizational cultural values involves a revelation of desired organizational cultural values and internalization of these values by employees. A value structure engendered by existing relations among values serves as kernel of a suggested structural approach to changing organizational cultural values. The value structure allows to introduce a concept of structural complexity internal...

Assessing health technologies in a changing world.

The author argues that a "narrowing down" in the scope of HTA that occurred at the end of the 1970s was paralleled by developments in bioethics at the same time. Both disciplines responded to changes in the institutional and political field in which they operated. Over the past 20 years, decision making in the health field has changed again. To remain relevant, HTA must evolve further. Building...

Primary care: core values. Core values in a changing world.

In 1920, the Dawson report advocated a population based approach to the organisation of health services, the allocation of resources, and the training of health care staff. It also introduced the concepts of primary and secondary levels of care and of primary care health centres. For several decades these ideas lay dormant, until medical specialisation, fragmentation of health services, and the...

Changing perceptions, changing reality.