The study was conducted in response to the govern m e n t ’s targets to increase police numbers. It was carried out against a backdrop of widespread concern about employment issues in the public sector and, in part i c u l a r, the re c ruitment and retention problems faced by employers in South-East England. There were increasing levels of wastage in the police service, with resignations and t...

Energy wastage in public buildings amounts to an important and not fully addressed cost. The present study is focused on introducing gamification at the workplace, with the overall goal of reducing energy wastage during and past employees’ working hours. In the context of an EU Horizon 2020 project, a gamified app and supporting infrastructure will be deployed to assist and motivate employees o...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the intravenous (IV) medication wastage within the inpatient pharmacy services at a teaching hospital, and to highlight the main causes for such waste and propose a policy to minimize wastage based on the study findings. METHODS For a one month period starting from September until October 2009, the returned and unused IV medications to the inpatient pharmacy in a teac...

Now a days, the usage of electronic appliances is increasing. In the offices, employees left their rooms without switching off the electrical appliances. So the power wastage increases. This power wastage can be reduced by making an intelligent system, which can control the electrical appliances automatically based on the requirement. The whole system is implemented and tested on FPGA.

ing " hospitals, but four were small hospitals with fewer than 30 recruits a year. It would be interesting to know how these four had reached this enviable level of student morale. The interesting part about the hospitals with " high " wastage rates was that the students who went to them after attaining high levels in the school-leaving certificate were less successful than would have been expe...

Building energy management (BEM) system can provide cost-effective energy management solutions for smart buildings. However, the success of BEM is contingent on identifying large energy consuming devices, monitoring energy usage, optimal scheduling of flexible appliances, and distinguishing and controlling energy wastage. To this end, this paper discusses the design of Internet of Things (IoT) ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Anesthetic drugs and material wastage are common in operation rooms (ORs). In this era of escalating health-care expenditure, cost reduction strategies are highly relevant. The aim of this study was to assess the amount of daily intravenous anesthetic drug wastage from major ORs and to estimate its financial burden. Any preventive measures to minimize drug wastage are ...

Ungulate grazing and trampling strongly affect pastures and ecosystems throughout the world. Ecological population models are used for studying these systems and determining the guidelines for sustainable and economically viable management. However, the effect of trampling and other resource wastage is either not taken into account or quantified with data in earlier models. Also, the ability of...

1. The total food and drink available for human consumption in the United Kingdom would provide approximately 13 MJ (3100 kcal)/person per d, while the energy intake recommended for the population is approximately 9.6 MJ (2300 kcal)/person per d. A proportion of this substantial difference must be due to wastage in the home as well as in catering establishments and during the storage, distribut...