This article focuses on the development of a data warehouse to facilitate government decision-making on national human resources development and to provide public access to information. A set of key challenges was confronted in the development of the data warehouse including: the conceptualisation, design, implementation and management of the data warehouse system. The underlying questions that...

It has been estimated that consumers waste $500 million a year on medical quackery and another $500 million annually on some "health foods" which have no beneficial effect. Unnecessary deaths, injuries and financial loss can be expected to continue unti1 the law requires adequate testing for safety and efficacy of products and devices before they are made available to consumers. (President John...

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This paper reports on findings of a study conducted among over 750 small and mid size businesses of Central California regarding uses and application barriers for Information and Communication Technology solutions. This study focused on the scale, dimensions and reasons for existence of so called “Digital Divide”. It shows that primary reason for discrepancies in utilization of ICT among SMEs a...

One of the growing trends in libraries, especially academic research libraries, is an increase in the number of institutions that are using organizational development (OD) philosophy, processes, and tools on a regular basis. Consequently, we have developed this issue of Library Trends to provide an overview of organizational development as it is practiced in libraries, and to explore leadership...

The Standing Committee of Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been discussing the possibility of introducing intellectual property protection of non-original databases through new international norms. It has been examining whether databases that do not presently qualify for copyright protection should also be protected. On the other hand, it i...

Multiproduct manufacturing facilities running on a campaign basis are increasingly becoming the norm for biopharmaceuticals, owing to high risks of clinical failure, regulatory pressures and the increasing number of therapeutics in clinical evaluation. The need for such flexible plants and cost-effective manufacture pose significant challenges for planning and scheduling, which are compounded b...

The chemical changes that occur in the various stages of tea manufacture were. until recently, imperfectly known. Research in this direction would help not only in improving the existing methods of manufacture, but also in the solution of any ... fresh problems as they arise. In order to render the present manufacturing practices scientific rather than empirical, a thorough knowledge of the che...