The BCC Numbering System: Back to the Future?

System Safety Engineering: Back To The Future

FUNCTION Mass/energy flow and balance GENERAL FUNCTION Flow and storage of heat, etc. PHYSICAL FUNCTION States of components what? what? what? what? what?

Analysing the Stewardship Function in Botswana’s Health System: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future

Background In many parts of the world, ongoing deficiencies in health systems compromise the delivery of health interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified four functions that health systems need to perform to achieve their goals: Efforts to strengthen health systems focus on the way these functions are carried out. While a number of studies on health systems functions have be...

Zambia : Back to the future ?

Back to the Evolutionary Future

Many books on evolution focus on the distant past or the present. Very few authors addressing a lay audience present what evolutionary changes may look like in the future. Coker has done so in this popular science book intended for a general audience. Basing the text on his similarly named course given at Elon University, the author provides a fascinating account of diverse aspects of evolution...

Perimetry--back to the future?

What does the future hold for the patient with glaucoma? Years and years of repetitive strain injury caused by peri-metric testing, or relief following its replacement by other simpler and less demanding tests? A recent editorial in this journal has drawn attention to these problems,' and applauded the attempt to lessen patient discomfort by shortening the duration of the test.2 It raises the q...