We analyse the factors that led to the turnaround of the Indian Railways from a low performing organisation to a high performing one. Literature on public sector turnaround provides the theoretical underpinnings. Enterprise turnaround is often ascribed to managerial leadership; we found that environmental factors (good luck) also contribute to the success. The implication of our study is that a...

The medical sector values time when it determines life in its totality. Any waste of time, especially critical conditions, compromises patients and puts lives at stake. From a diagnosis treatment perspective, efficient use the success procedures. Whether be inclusion computing technologies or implementation informatics, benefits technology have been tremendous to healthcare sector. This researc...

“Outcomes Assessment” has become one of the enduring buzzwords of the decade. But it often seems to be like the weather: Everyone talks about it, but relatively few do anything about it. As clinical laboratory scientists, we have repeatedly challenged ourselves to demonstrate that laboratory results affect patient outcome. Yet very few well-done studies have been published. (How many times have...

BACKGROUND Emergency Department overcrowding has become a global problem and a growing safety and quality concern. Radiology and laboratory turnaround time, ED boarding and increased ED visits are some of the factors that contribute to ED overcrowding. Lean methods have been used in the ED to address multiple flow challenges from improving door-to-doctor time to reducing length of stay. The obj...

This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and, according to some measures, even declining. A number papers have been harbingers this conclusion, but consolidates the literature indicating turnaround, provides empirical foundations for it. The argument made using range data sources measures perspectives on inequality. evo...

Web-based synoptic reporting systems have been shown to improve efficiency, reduce turnaround time, and decrease reporting errors in reports of surgical pathology specimens and hematologic neoplasms and bone marrow. No such system has been previously described for the reporting of peripheral blood smears. We developed a Web-based synoptic reporting system composed of a knowledge base encompassi...

Scheduling on distributed systems is an NP hard problem and grid being a wide heterogeneous expandable system makes scheduling even a tougher job. Genetic algorithm, based on natural selection and evolution has gained popularity in recent times because of its effectiveness in handling optimization problems. In this article, a job-scheduling model for a computational grid with the objective of m...

Abstract The concept of turnaround radius in an accelerating universe is generalized to arbitrarily large deviations from spherical symmetry, as needed by astronomy. As a check, previous results for small symmetry are recovered.