INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS WEEKS – FROM CHALLENGE TO OPPORTUNITY

Change, Challenge, and Opportunity in Business Languages

From Reviews to Analysis: Challenge and Opportunity Converge

The emergence of complex safety-critical systems such as integrated modular avionics challenges the limits of traditional process-based assurance methods based on what DO-178B calls “reviews.” The problem is that interaction between subsystems produces too many possible behaviors. Assurance for these cases needs support from what DO178B calls “analyses”; in particular, tool-supported calculatio...

Opportunity and challenge in China.

Background: Transient arrhythmias can affect transient ischemic dilation (TID) ratios. This study was initiated to evaluate the frequency and effect of normal heart rate change on TID measures in routine clinical practice. Methods: Consecutive patients undergoing stress/rest sestamibi gated myocardial perfusion scintigraphy were studied (N = 407). Heart rate at the time of stress and rest imagi...

The prevention challenge and opportunity.

In the United States, more money is spent on treating diseases and their complications than on preventing them in the first place. Prevention is both undervalued and poorly supported in our health system. In this Perspective I discuss how the McKinlay model can be used to illustrate the three levels at which we need to increase our investment in prevention. I recognize the many challenges in im...

Divorce: An International Multi-dimensional Challenge

  Divorce is one the most important public health problems which may affect many people especially parents, children, and their close relatives. To emphasize the importance of divorce worldwide, the world figures of some countries have been compared. According to transition from a traditional ...