Rebuilding barriers

Rebuilding Organisational Capabilities

What an organisation does versus what it out-sources to the market is a classic boundaries of the firm question that has previously been dominated by efficiency arguments. However, a knowledge-based view suggests these boundaries are integral to the ability of a firm to deploy existing knowledge stocks efficiently, as well as develop new knowledge through learning that will drive future competi...

Rebuilding psychiatry in Uganda

Uganda Uganda, referred to as the 'Pearl of Africa' by Winston Churchill, has an area of 236 580 km2 and a population of about 20 million. This beautiful and fertile country varies from semidesert in the north-east to the lush shores of Lake Victoria and the mist covered Rwenzori mountains on its western border. At the time of independence in 1962, Uganda was considered a prosperous and cohesiv...

Refuting and Rebuilding Arguments

So far, the discussions in this text have focused mainly on the process of constructing arguments. For ease of understanding, this text has spoken about making arguments to support or oppose a motion as if those arguments existed in their own space, without regard to any other debaters or any other issues. Of course, in an actual debate, arguments are made always with an eye toward how they int...

Rebuilding the food pyramid.

Rebuilding global fisheries.

After a long history of overexploitation, increasing efforts to restore marine ecosystems and rebuild fisheries are under way. Here, we analyze current trends from a fisheries and conservation perspective. In 5 of 10 well-studied ecosystems, the average exploitation rate has recently declined and is now at or below the rate predicted to achieve maximum sustainable yield for seven systems. Yet 6...