Four ways HR can improve business productivity

Using Business Intelligence to Improve DBA Productivity

The amount of data collected and used by companies has grown rapidly in size over the last decade. Business leaders are now using Business Intelligence (BI) systems to make effective business decisions against large amounts of data. The growth in the size of data has been a major challenge for Database Administrators (DBAs). The increase in the number and size of databases at the speed they hav...

New strategies in ion channel screening for drug discovery: are there ways to improve its productivity?

INTRODUCTION From a drug discovery point of view, ion channels are very interesting and challenging targets. Over the past decade, great efforts have been made in developing platforms for patch clamp-based high-quality screening of ion channels in discovering new drug candidates as well for evaluating their safety profiles. Indeed, the automated patch clamp (APC) has recently reached the data t...

Four Ways to Measure Culture

How Style Checking Can Improve Business Process Models

Business process analysts prefer to build business process models (BPM) using graphical languages like BPMN or UML Activity Diagrams. Several researchers have presented validation methologies for such BPMs. In order to use these verification techniques for BPMs written in graphical languages, the models must be translated into the input language of a model checker or simulation tool. By analyzi...

Four ways we approach ethics.

Most people use four different approaches when making ethical decisions. Some people use one approach predominantly, while others vary their approaches according to the circumstances. In either case, the approaches usually are chosen unconsciously. A main source of conflict in decision making occurs when two parties argue or negotiate their positions from different moral approaches, for these d...