Taking a holistic approach to managing difficult stress fractures

Taking a holistic approach to managing difficult stress fractures

Stress fractures and other bony stress injuries occur along a spectrum of severity which can impact treatment and prognosis. When treating these injuries, it should be borne in mind that no two stress fractures behave exactly alike. Given that they are not a consistent injury, standardized treatment protocols can be challenging to develop. Treatment should be individualized to the patient or at...

Taking a holistic approach to planning and developing hydropower

The chronic shortage of electricity supply in India impedes economic development and poverty reduction. More than 40 percent of households, most of them in rural areas, lack access to electricity. With the aim of extending access to electricity to all households by 2012, the government has launched a program to add 100,000 megawatts of generating capacity. Recognizing that meeting much of this ...

A Holistic Approach for Managing Spyware

n the past, the main anti-malware targets for IT were viruses and worms. Yet, information privacy and security control are being increasingly challenged by the mushrooming emergence and propagation of spyware, which is one of the perilous cyber-threats confronting the IT community in terms of privacy violation. In general, most people regard spyware as a stealthy transmitter gathering and passi...

Managing Student Support: A Holistic Approach

With the advance and scaling up of e-learning and distance learning provision, the scope of student support systems has extended and deepened, demanding consideration of the methods for its planning and implementation. Management of student support is used as an example of a key business process that is one part of a higher education enterprise’s end-to-end process of e-learning provision, with...

Managing Risk in Agriculture: a Holistic Approach