In May 2009, NE-CAT applied for a high end equipment grant from NCRR to fund the purchase of a Pixel Array Detector (PAD). As a class, PADs are generally acknowledged as the near-term successor to CCD’s at 3rd generation synchrotron crystallography beamlines. The PILATUS-6M, from Dectris Ltd., is the first commercially available PAD suitable for synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallographic...

The present report is submitted pursuant to Executive Board decision 94/32 of 10 October 1994. The report provides an overview of performance in 2001 against financial targets in the UNOPS business plan, reviews UNOPS activities during the year and addresses issues involving services and new client-centred business processes. Information is also provided on the current status of the organizatio...

Dr. Couch is a medical quality management consultant serving providers and purchasers of health care services (including insurers and corporations) nationwide. He represents the 6,000 physician executives of the American College of Physician Executives and American College of Utilization Review Physicians at the JCAHO. He is associated with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics of the...

The study of extraordinary performance has been carried out almost independently in two research traditions, the first emphasising practice and the second emphasising talent. The practice tradition has collected empirical evidence strongly supporting chunking as a key learning mechanism and practice as a prerequisite for becoming an expert. The talent tradition has provided convincing data for ...

The Data Analysis Task Force (DATF) was created by the SNMTS leadership to collect data that would be useful to both the organization and the profession of nuclear medicine technology (NMT) as a whole. A need was identified to collect timely data that could be used to provide benchmarks, establish trends, and recognize significant changes in our industry. The objectives and goals of this task f...

As companies continue to rapidly deploy Intel processor-based servers in mission-critical areas of their businesses where continuous operation is expected, managing and controlling the costs associated with these servers will increase in importance. IT professionals across all segments of the market will expect servers to be enabled for manageability in any environment, right out of the box, an...