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Lentils: 'First UK commercial crop' harvested - BBC News: A supplier is working with farms in Hertfordshire, Hampshire,

Lentils: 'First UK commercial crop' harvested - BBC News: A supplier is working with farms in Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Sussex and Wiltshire.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Cambodian biodigester finds success, attracts investors: A household biodigester that converts livestock manure into cooking

Cambodian biodigester finds success, attracts investors: A household biodigester that converts livestock manure into cooking gas and fertiliser is attracting investors.
Source: scidev.net

Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to significantly improve the effectiveness of a

Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to significantly improve the effectiveness of a business or organization. Many of the principles are philosophical. Others are more programmatic. All are transformative in nature. The principles (points) were first presented in...
Source: deming.org

Peter Senge and the learning organization. Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are

Peter Senge and the learning organization. Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create h…
Source: infed.org

8-STEP PROCESS Over four decades, Dr. Kotter observed countless leaders and organizations as they were trying to transform

8-STEP PROCESS Over four decades, Dr. Kotter observed countless leaders and organizations as they were trying to transform or execute their strategies. He identified and extracted the success factors and combined them into a methodology, the award-winning 8-Step Process for Leading Change.
Source: kotterinternational.com

Anxiety over health 'caused by cyber-chondria' - BBC News: Searching for symptoms online is causing people to obsess about

Anxiety over health 'caused by cyber-chondria' - BBC News: Searching for symptoms online is causing people to obsess about aches and pains, experts say.
Source: bbc.co.uk

UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring

UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring kits due to fears official figures are not capturing dangerous pollution levels, say Friends of the Earth
Source: theguardian.com

UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed

UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed an ‘entirely new industry’ in AI-based diagnostics and mint billions for tech companies, strategic review reveals. "Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford university...
Source: theguardian.com

Wind turbine manufacturers are dipping toes into energy storage projects: Vestas said to be working with Tesla, and that

Wind turbine manufacturers are dipping toes into energy storage projects: Vestas said to be working with Tesla, and that just caps off a busy summer.
Source: arstechnica.com

Can Internet-based interventions help people to stop smoking?  | Cochrane

Can Internet-based interventions help people to stop smoking?  | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org

Spiral drawing test detects signs of Parkinson's - BBC News: Australian researchers have developed software that measures

Spiral drawing test detects signs of Parkinson's - BBC News: Australian researchers have developed software that measures writing speed and pen pressure.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Athelas Device Provides Accurate CBC Testing - From Home |: For high-risk patients or those with diseases that require constant

Athelas Device Provides Accurate CBC Testing - From Home |: For high-risk patients or those with diseases that require constant blood monitoring, going to the doctor for blood tests may soon be a thing of the past.
Source: medgadget.com

'Listen to women': UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis: Disease, which causes crippling pain and can

'Listen to women': UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis: Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose
Source: theguardian.com

Virtual Reality Used to Study Origin of Fear and Anxiety |: Our irrational fears are both very real and are also figments

Virtual Reality Used to Study Origin of Fear and Anxiety |: Our irrational fears are both very real and are also figments of our imagination. By manipulating what we think of as reality, researchers at Stanford Univ
Source: medgadget.com

Adult learning theories: Implications for learning and teaching in medical education: AMEE Guide No. 83: There are many

Adult learning theories: Implications for learning and teaching in medical education: AMEE Guide No. 83: There are many theories that explain how adults learn and each has its own merits. This Guide explains and explores the more commonly used ones and how they can be used to enhance student and faculty...
Source: tandfonline.com

IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling

IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling Watson to recommend the best cancer treatments to doctors around the world three years ago. But is it really doing its job? Not so much. An investigation by Stat found that the supercomputer...
Source: slashdot.org

Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe: These early humans were using tar to make tools long

Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe: These early humans were using tar to make tools long before Homo sapiens did.
Source: arstechnica.com

Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? - Slashdot

Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

New Nutrition Study Changes Nothing : Why the science of healthy eating appears confusing—but isn’t

New Nutrition Study Changes Nothing : Why the science of healthy eating appears confusing—but isn’t
Source: theatlantic.com

Science funding: Will 'picking winners' work? - BBC News: Why has the government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned

Science funding: Will 'picking winners' work? - BBC News: Why has the government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?
Source: bbc.co.uk