Institutional learning

In 1933, Schoenheimer, who was medically qualified and had been working with Aschoff in the Pathology Institute in Freiburg, moved to Columbia University, New York, and was joined the next year by David Rittenberg. Rittenberg had just spent some time in Urey s laboratory in the Rockefeller Institute learning techniques for handling deuterium. Their first experiments concerned the metabolism of deuterated fatty acids in rats and the demonstration (see below) that 2H from heavy water was incorporated by the animals into fatty acids and cholesterol. 

Keywords vulnerability resilience adaptation institutional learning response mechanisms environmental emergency Asian Tsunami Thailand Hurricane Katrina United States New Orleans... 

Without having experience and past lessons to draw upon, the Thai government pulled its country out of crisis remarkably well. Additionally, it addressed a major flaw in its system Thailand has since become part of an Early Warning System, which will serve as the country s first line of defense to future tsunamis. Now that the crisis is over, there are valuable opportunities for institutional learning. The local level, however, did not have the tools to be adequately responsive and effective. This may be a systemic problem, but it resulted in capacity foregone that the local level... 

An alignment of institutional learning outcomes with the programmatic learning outcomes... 

Usually an Internet user learns after a while where to go for specific information The Browser provides a bookmark tlmction where all these addresses can be organized by different subjects Typical bookmark folders are Societies, Companies, Journals, Institutes, Databases, Search engines The NDTnet Journal provides a virtual library that makes it easy for newcomers to find NDT sites. Unfortunately, some sites provide a lot of information but do not offer a search function. 

R. B. Jordan (How to Use the Learning Curve, Materials Management Institute, Boston, 1965) discusses the uses of the learning cui ve... 

Field coating of welds has always presented problems. Straw and jute with a greasy material was employed in 1910, but this later saponified in the soil. By chance the pharmacist Schade of Berlin learned of this problem and recommended the use of petroleum jelly in a bandage-like application. Hot-applied bitumen bands, as used by pipe works since 1928. proved to be most durable. Since 1930, electrical measuring methods have played an important part in research into insulation bands and pipe coverings carried out by the Gas Institute in Karlsruhe, the present-day Engier-Bunte Institute 18). 

As we learn from Sims s reviews, many other improvements have been made to superalloys and to their exploitation in recent decades. Solid-solution strengthening, grain-boundary strengthening with carbides and other precipitates, and especially the institution, some twenty years ago, of clean processing which allows the many unwanted impurities to be avoided (Benz 1999) have all improved the alloys to the point where (McLean 1996) the best superalloys now operate successfully at a Kelvin temperature which is as much as 85% of the melting temperature this shows that the prospect of significant further improvement is slight. 

In the DOE environment, the term lesson learned is defined as a good work practice or innovative approach that is captured and shared to promote application. It may also be an adverse work practice or experience that is captured and shared to avoid recurrence. This term is used by DOE and other federal and private-sector institutions, to describe the following ... 

Saraiva, P.M. and Stephanopoulos, G., 1992a. Continuous process improvement through inductive and analogical learning. American Institution of Chemical Engineers Journal, 38(2), 161. 

Sheikh, A.Y. and Jones, A.G., 1997. Crystallization process optimisation through a revised machine learning methodology. American Institution of Chemical Engineers Journal, 43, 1448-1457. 

M. Jefferson, P. W. H. Chung, and T. A. Kletz, Learning the Lessons of Past Accidents, Hazards XIII—Process Safety The Future, Symposium Series No. 141, Institution of Chemical Engineers, Rugby, UK, 1997. 

Safety Digest of Lessons Learned, Vols. 2-5, American Petroleum Institute, New York, 1979-1981. 

Kletz, T. A. (1993). Learning from Disaster How Organizations Have No Memory. Rugby, UK Institute of Chemical Engineers. 

Oersted was named a fellow of several learned societies, presented with medals, and awarded cash prizes. At home, Oersted became Denmark s leading citizen. He continued his research, but as an international figure he traveled extensively, became fluent in many languages, and met with the leading scientists of the time. He gave frequent public lectures and became a director of the Royal Polytechnic Institute of Copenhagen. He also had a lifelong interest in literature and, in 1829, he founded a literary journal to which he frequently contributed articles about sci-... 

In recent years, many learning institutions felt the benefits of one or more technically-related courses such as petrochemicals in their chemistry and chemical engineering curricula. More than forty years ago, Lewis Hatch pioneered such an effort by offering a course in "Chemicals from Petroleum" at the University of Texas. Shortly thereafter, the ter... 

---