Introducing Policy Perspectives

Introducing historical perspectives.

Most of us have heard the story of the discovery of penicillin: how in 1928 the Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered a set of Petri dishes contaminated by spores of Penicillium mold that had seemingly destroyed the staphylococcal bacteria hewas studying. Less remembered is the fact that Fleming gave up on penicillin within a few months, finding it extremely difficult to extract ...

Introducing CCR perspectives in drug approval.

In this issue of Clinical Cancer Research, we are pleased to introduce a new feature titled CCR Perspectives in Drug Approval. This feature will incorporate the popular Report from the FDA but will evolve to include perspectives from other regulatory groups addressing broad topics that affect the drug approval process, as well as discussions of how national regulatory bodies are approaching the...

Introducing a new operational policy: The PIS operational policy

A novel operational policy, the Process Intermediate Storage operational policy, is introduced and used to synthesize, schedule and design multipurpose batch plants. The model is based on the State Sequence Network and non-uniform discretization of the time horizon of interest model developed by Majozi and Zhu [Majozi, T., Zhu, X. (2001). A novel continuous-time MILP formulation for multipurpos...

Perspectives: a policy analyst.

Perspectives on nursing policy.

When she took over the helm as its new editor-in-chief, Lynn Nagle commented that the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership could function as one vehicle “to facilitate and support the dialogues that can drive strategy and policy development.”1 To help bring that goal to life, I am honoured to join Lynn, my co-editors Greta Cummings and Patricia Petryshen and the talented Longwoods team in the...