Rooting out bias

Rooting out bias

Tackling unconscious bias is a major challenge for journals and the rest of the scientific community.

Rooting out fraud.

N ov. 22, 2009, marked a significant milestone for Tamar Abell. It was the end of a 10-year ordeal that cost her family’s skilled nursing facility business more than $2 million in settlement costs and legal fees, not to mention numerous sleepless nights and hundreds of hours of paperwork. It began in the spring of 2000: After three decades of successfully owning and operating nursing facilities...

Rooting out the Waterfall Legacy

Computer R apid change in information technology brings with it a frequent need to undo the effects of previous culture change efforts. This process, while often challenging and frustrating, offers numerous rewards for success. Organizations can change from slow, reactive, adversarial, separated software and systems engineering processes to unified, concurrent processes. These processes better ...

Rooting out tuberculosis in homeless communities.

If you happen to have a Lancet collection that stretches as far back as 1911, you can read the Editor of the day, Squire Sprigge, passionately looking forward to the day that the “demon of tuberculosis” is fi nally mastered. In 2011, that day still seems some way off . An article published last week in Emerging Infectious Diseases reported that in Toronto, Canada, about 20% of homeless people w...

Rooting Out Invasive Species: Lessons from Down Under