Lessons Learnt from the Cardiff CPD Development Programme

Lessons learnt from errors in radiotherapy centers

Background: The purpose of this work is to discover and analyze errors and incidents in some radiotherapy centers, and to introduce methods that could reduce their occurrences, especially those which had happened due to the use of improper and inadequate equipment. This work is a first step toward clarifying the role of education in a risk-conscious culture, and changing the attitude of radioth...

Lessons Learnt in System Engineering for the SESAR Programme

From Transmission to Transition: Lessons Learnt from the Thai Paediatric Antiretroviral Programme

BACKGROUND The Thai HIV programme is a leader in the public health approach to HIV treatment. Starting at transmission of HIV and ending with transition to adult services this paper assesses the paediatric HIV treatment continuum from three perspectives: service-user, provider and policy maker, to understand what works well and why. METHODS A qualitative research design was used to assess and...

Development by Refinement Revisited: Lessons learnt from a case study

Formal development by stepwise refinement is one of the most prominent approaches in formal program development. Stepwise refinement comes with a bunch of methodological claims and pragmatical guidelines. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, we present a transformational program development for a mediumsize example, a (core of a) lexical scanner generator. The concepts of the algorithmi...

Lessons Learnt from the Ultra-Micro Gas

The outcome of NEDO supported international research project led by University of Tokyo is reviewed, with respect to developing key technologies for ultra-micro gas turbines (UMGT). The study suggested ‘Finger-top’ gas turbines as a currently feasible extreme that install rotors of 8 mm in diameter with 1.2 million rpm to produce tens of watts net output. Prior to practicing such UMGT system in...