Foresight

The experiences of industrial collaborators and surveys of UK businesses suggest that failure costs are the main obstacle to reducing the costs of quality. There is, therefore, a need for design methods and guidelines to give businesses the foresight... 

Statutory and regulatory requirements are those which apply in the country to which the product or service is to be supplied. While some customers have the foresight to specify these, they often don t. Just because such requirements are not specified in the contract doesn t mean you don t need to meet them. 

Voraus-setzung, /. hypothesis, assumption, postulate, supposition, provision, prerequisite. -sicht, /. foresight, forethought, voraussichtlich a. probable, expected, prospective. — adv. presumably, most probably. 

Vorsicht, /. foresight, caution, prudence precaution, care providence take care vorsichterweise, adv. by way of precaution, vorsichtig, a. cautious, careful, prudent, provident. — adv. cautiously, carefully. Vorsichts-massnahme, -massregel, /. precaution, precautionary measure. 

Portable electronic manufacturers had the foresight to realize that battery technology was not keeping up with innovation in electronic technology, and it probably never would. To satisfy consumer demand for smaller and more powerful electronic devices that could go a longer time between charges, improvements in the energy efficiency of the devices themselves were required. 

Since the energy shocks of the 1970s, other efforts to subsidize energy have arisen. One often-nsed justification is inadequate foresight. For example, encouraging specific forms of nonutility generation of... 

Iane95] David Lane and R. Maxfield, Foresight, Complexity, and Strategy, Santa Fe Institute, 95-12-106, 1995. 

Thus was proved the Army s foresight in maintaining Picatinny during the years of peace. 

As time passed, the balance of Stacey s interests changed He became less involved with the close direction of research and more with administration. Moreover, his chemical work had become far too wide for him to have a detailed knowledge of all of it. He retained his strategic foresight and, always, could advise how best to develop a project. He had an ability to join forces with and motivate his colleagues, who carried forward the detailed work. Also, he was able to recall, with uncanny accuracy and perception, the ability and character of each of the many collaborators, with whom he had been associated during his career. 

As shown in this chapter, by focusing on the modulation of enzyme selectivity by medium engineering, quite simple modifications of the solvent composition can really have significant effects on the performances of the biocatalysts. The main drawback remains the lack of reliable predictive models. Despite the significant research efforts (particularly in the last decade), it is likely that a reasonable foresight of the enantioselective outcome of an enzymatic transformation will continue to be based solely on a careful analysis of the increasingly numerous literature reports. 

Ram, MK Adami, M Sartore, M Paddeu, S, and Nicolini, C (1997c), Presented to Foresight Conference of Nanotechnology. 

Scriver CR Garrod s foresight our hindsight. J Inherit Metab Dis 2001 24 93. 

The project is managed through the Laboratory of the Government Chemist in Teddington, UK, and is part of the British government s Foresight link program [45]. The cost of the Lab-on-a-Chip project was 3.2 million. Two key tasks are the exploration of reactions and processes on a micro-scale and the commercialization of the results. 

ANSWER No, I do not know offhand the concentration of myelin in those areas. In fact, I did the profile to prove that it was not lipophilicity, so I was not expecting that. I did not have the foresight to look at the concentration of myelin. 

Foresight. The Future of Food and Farming. Executive Summary. The Government Office for Science, London, 2011. 

Data from Tanabe, S. 1988. PCB problems in the future foresight from current knowledge. Environ. Pollut. 50 5-28. 

As a model of real behavior, the role of a theory is twofold (1) to account for observed phenomena in relatively simple terms (hindsight), and (2) to predict hitherto unobserved phenomena (foresight). 

Since its first appearance in 1967, the Topics in Stereochemistry series has stood as the standard-bearer for advances in the broad field of stereochemistry. The visionary founders of the series anticipated, with remarkable foresight, the extraordinary growth and impact that stereochemistry has had on all reaches of the chemical enterprise. Fortunately, there is no cease of interest in the importance of stereochemistry as the discipline of chemistry evolves and its borders expand and diffuse into the related fields of biology, medicine, physics, materials science, chemical engineering, and environmental science. 

Some of them were only slightly insecticidal. But their foresight is notable regarding natural pyrethrins as lead compounds without knowledge of the real structures of alcohol moieties at that time. 

As will be seen at the end of this chapter in the section on gene therapy products (where NIH also has some regulatory role), there is still some ambiguity of authority in areas where technology has outrun regulatory foresight. The situation is similar internationally (see CPMP, 1989 and ICH, 1997 for example). 

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