Rethinking Consultants: Time for change in traditional working practices?

Rethinking Traditional Web Interaction

Web sites are evolving into ever more complex distributed applications. But current Web programming tools are not fully adapted to this evolution, and force programmers to worry about too many inessential details. We want to define an alternative programming style better fitted to that kind of applications. To do that, we propose an analysis of Web interaction in order to break it down into ver...

Consultants in Ireland: time for decision.

As Britain's National Health Service passes into its 27th year and faces problems which threaten to destroy it the medical profession and, doubtless, the Department of Health in Ireland watch its malaise with concern and interest. Not by any means the least interested are the consultants, who, like their British colleagues, are studying contract options for the future, and many of whom with fir...

Prescribing practices of consultants at Karachi, Pakistan.

OBJECTIVE To audit the prescribing practices of consultants. DESIGN A randomized sample survey of 354 consultants prescription for analysis of some basic parameters as recommended by World Health Organization (WHO). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES To provide feedback to the prescribers for promoting rational drug therapy. RESULTS The average number of drugs for prescription were found to be 4.51 an...

Internal Consultants as Agents of Change

Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory

Phase change memory (PCM) is an emerging memory technology with many attractive features: it is non-volatile, byte-addressable, 2–4X denser than DRAM, and orders of magnitude better than NAND Flash in read latency, write latency, and write endurance. In the near future, PCM is expected to become a common component of the memory/storage hierarchy for a wide range of computer systems. In this pap...