Going too far: Complaining, escalating and disaffiliation

Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far?

Vers la fin des années 90, la gestion des connaissances et les communautés de pratique semblaient inséparables. Les communautés de pratique semblaient offrir la clef qui renverserait l'échec de certaines des méthodes précédentes, fondées sur la technologie, et qui visaient à contrôler les connaissances. Cependant, le premier concept des communautés de pratique a été fondé sur un ensemble de pri...

Is spending on proton beam therapy for cancer going too far, too fast?

Going Far, Logically

There are numerous applications where we need to ensure that multiple moving objects are sufficiently far apart. Furthermore, in many moving object domains, there is positional indeterminacy — we are not 100% sure exactly when a given moving object will be at a given location. [Yaman et al., 2004] provided a logic of motion but did not provide algorithms to ensure that moving objects are kept s...

A sternotomy too far.

Median sternotomy has been used for a long time as a standard approach for many cardiothoracic procedures in children. Many complications have been reported to result from this approach with different incidences. Iatrogenic diaphragmatic hernia has not been reported as a definite complication of such approach. This paper presents a case report for a 14-month-old boy with iatrogenic diaphragmati...

Mammography screening: how far is too far?

INTRODUCTION This study answers the question: 'How far must a Canadian woman travel before the risk of a motor vehicle accident (MVA) outweighs the benefits of mammography screening?'. METHODS Numbers needed to screen and false positive rates were extracted from information in the breast screening guidelines from the Canadian Task Force on screening for breast cancer. Motor vehicle accidents ...