Operational excellence is generally known as a management system integrated across critical functions that is geared towards continually improving operational performance. Functional areas such as health, environment and safety, quality and human resources are the focus of many corporate-wide operational excellence programs. Operational excellence also focuses on improving areas such as custome...

BACKGROUND Inconsistencies in research findings on the impact of the built environment on walking across the life course may be methodologically driven. Commonly used methods to define 'neighbourhood', from which built environment variables are measured, may not accurately represent the spatial extent to which the behaviour in question occurs. This paper aims to provide new methods for spatiall...

Glenberg and Robertson (2000) conducted three experiments to investigate the adequacy of high-dimensional memory models in accounting for the meaningful interpretation of sentences. They conclude that high-dimensional memory models (such as LSA and HAL) are inadequate as theories of meaning. As an alternative account, they offer an embodied approach to cognition—the indexical hypothesis. In thi...

Westheimer responds to ÔVisual resolution: operational definitions with an eye towards historical precedenceÕ There is no dispute between Carney & Klein and me about optical facts and psychophysical observations: we are struggling with nomenclature. Resolution has been traditionally understood to refer to the question ''single or double''—Robert HookeÕs double stars, 19th-century ophthalmologis...

Healthy People 2000, with its Midcourse Revisions, presents 319 objectives to improve the health of Americans by the year 2000 (1,2). Because these objectives are national, not solely Federal, the achievement of these objectives is dependent in part on the ability of health agencies at all levels of government to assess objective progress. To permit comparison of local and State health data wit...

Healthy People 2000, with its Midcourse Revisions, presents 319 objectives to improve the health of Americans by the year 2000 (1,2). Because these objectives are national, not solely Federal, the achievement of these objectives is dependent in part on the ability of health agencies at all levels of government to assess objective progress. To permit comparison of local and State health data wit...

Healthy People 2000, with its Midcourse Revisions, presents 319 objectives to improve the health of Americans by the year 2000 (1,2). Because these objectives are national, not solely Federal, the achievement of these objectives is dependent in part on the ability of health agencies at all levels of government to assess objective progress. To permit comparison of local and State health data wit...

CONTEXT Excessive sleepiness (ES) is poorly defined in epidemiologic studies, although its adverse implications for safety, health, and optimal social and vocational functioning have been extensively reported. OBJECTIVE To determine the importance of ES definition, measurement, and prevalence in the general population, together with its coexisting conditions. DESIGN Cross-sectional telephon...

Healthy People 2000, with its Midcourse Revisions, includes 319 objectives to improve the health of Americans by the year 2000 (1,2). Because these objectives are national, not solely Federal, the achievement of these objectives is dependent in part on the ability of health agencies at all levels of government to assess objective progress. To permit comparison of local, State, and Tribal health...

Healthy People 2000, with its Midcourse Revisions, presents 319 objectives to improve the health of Americans by the year 2000 (1,2). Because these objectives are national, not solely Federal, the achievement of these objectives is dependent in part on the ability of health agencies at all levels of government to assess objective progress. To permit comparison of local and State health data wit...