Time to stop putting the clocks back?

Time to stop putting the clocks back?

Putting Time (back) into Dynamic Function Allocation

This position paper discusses extensions to concepts of Dynamic Function Allocation (DFA) that could improve our understanding of the trade-offs involved in designing and operating humanautomation systems. We suggest that current DFA paradigms, focusing predominantly on allocation along the human-automation resource dimension, may provide an insufficient basis for design decisions as they fail ...

Putting Ancient Agriculture Back to Work

he remains of an extensive ancient agricultural system built and used by Andean peoples centuries ago are found throughout the vast high plain surrounding Lake Titicaca in the Andean countries of Peru and Bolivia (Figs. 1, 2). Raised fields are large elevated planting platforms which provided drainage, improved soil conditions, and improved temperatures for crops, The remains of prehistoric rai...

Angry voters may turn back the clocks

Science, the environment, and efforts to mitigate climate change are among the likely casualties when the UK goes through with the exit from the European Union. Within a year of the vote that granted rightwing populist Nigel Farage the fulfi lment of his lifetime ambition, electoral success for populists in the US and in France could bring a U-turn for Western civilisation and make it renounce ...

Traffic lights: putting a stop to unsafe patient transfers.

Poor handover between doctors is a recognised cause of error in hospitals.[1] Watford General Hospital is a busy acute trust in southern England, where high admission rates necessitate timely patient transfers from the acute admissions unit (AAU) to the medical wards. We found that doctors were infrequently informed of patient transfers, and they rarely handed over patient care when a patient w...