Nephrologists need to deal with the problem of vascular access management in the same manner as the other major problems that affect our dialysis patients. We need to become experts in vascular access and we need to occupy a pivotal position in directing the decisions that are made that affect dialysis patient welfare. An integrated vascular access management strategy is required. Optimally, th...

Globalization has resulted in exponential growth for many successful enterprises both in financial and non-financial industries. In the majority of these, growth can be attributed to inorganic expansion through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Specifically, in the insurance industry M&A activity has been on the rise since the early 1990s — especially in the UK, continental Europe and North Amer...

D istributed mission-critical environments employ a mixture of hard and soft real-time applications that usually expect a guaranteed range of quality of service. These applications have different levels of criticality and varied structures ranging from periodic independent tasks to distributed pipelines or event-driven modules. The underlying distributed system must evolve and adapt to the high...

Emerging communication subsystems need to integrate support for an increasing variety of applications, such as audio, video, and conventional data traffic. These applications are characterized by highly different service requirements commonly expressed in terms of socalled quality of service parameters (QoS parameters). Most importantly, they require specialized end-to-end QoS support from the ...

Integrated pest management, in which the conventional pesticides are augmented by one or more nonchemical control practices, has been receiving renewed interest. What is new in this revitalization of an old technique is the careful and more knowledgeable application of a variety of control techniques.

Research and development on IPM was initiated in Pakistan in the 70’s. However, efforts to implement IPM at the farm level did not bear fruit. A major obstacle has been the mindset at the policy level to increase crop production to feed the ever-increasing population. Pesticides became a major instrument of increasing production leading to ‘pesticide treadmill’ situation. Although IPM-FFS “Veha...

Recently the performance of companies has gained a significant meaning due to globalization and new conditions in the field of the markets and the competition area. To be successful the set objectives derived from the strategy in different levels must be controlled and an approach must be chosen that integrates the three parts, performance management concept, IT and organisation. The proposed a...

The procedure required to move forward with regard to get-ting genetically improved cotton accepted and commerciallyavailable is discussed. Three steps generally need to be taken,namely getting biosafety guidelines or regulations in place,secondly testing the technology for efficacy and suitability,and then thirdly, moving forward with commercializationthereby making the...

Addressing environmental management problems at catchment scales requires an integrated modelling approach, in which key bio-physical and socio-economic drivers, processes and impacts are all considered. Development of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for environmental management is rapidly progressing. This paper describes the integration of physical, ecological, and socio-economic components i...