Institutional resilience

Carthey, J., de Leval, M. R., and Reason, J. T. Institutional Resilience in Healthcare Systems. Quality and Safety inHealth Care, 2001, 70(1), 29-32. 

Interpreting your score 16 20 = so healthy as to be barely credible 1115 = moderate to high level of intrinsic resistance 6 10 = considerable improvements needed to achieve institutional resilience 1-5 = moderate to high institutional vulnerability 0 = a complete rethink of organizational culture and processes is... 

Institutional resilience surviving an accident can prove to be as important as avoiding the accident... 

If analytical methods are at the heart of biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing, then protein concentration methods are the workhorse assays. A time and motion study of the discovery, development, and manufacture of a protein-based product would probably confirm the most frequently performed assay to be protein concentration. In the 1940s Oliver H. Lowry developed the Lowry method while attempting to detect miniscule amounts of substances in blood. In 1951 his method was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. In 1996 the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) reported that this article had been cited almost a quarter of a million times, making it the most cited research article in history. This statistic reveals the ubiquity of protein measurement assays and the resilience of an assay developed over 60 years ago. The Lowry method remains one of the most popular colorimetric protein assays in biopharmaceutical development, although many alternative assays now exist. 

Fibers (qv) have been defined by the Textile Institute as units of matter characterized by flexibility, fineness, and a high ratio of length to thickness (3). For use in textile applications, fibers should have adequate temperature stability, strength, and extensibility. Other important qualities include cohesiveness or spinability and uniformity. There are also several secondary characteristics that improve customer satisfaction and therefore may be desirable. These include cross-sectional shape, specific gravity or density, moisture regain, resiliency, luster, elastic recovery, and resistance to chemicals, environmental conditions, and biological organisms. 

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Equations 1.2 and 1.3 are proposed to be used by the Asphalt Institute of the United States (Asphalt Institute MS-1). They are applicable to materials classified as A-7, A-6, A-5, A-4 and finer A-2 soils (AASHTO designation) or CL, CH, ML, SC and SP (USCS), or in general for materials that are estimated to have a resilient modulus of 207 MPa or less. 

Sampling and testing of soil materials are carried out according to established procedures. It is recommended to test all subgrade material within 600 mm of the planned elevation and in embankment areas to test the expected source of the fill material. Apart from the resilient modulus test (AASHTO T 307 2007 Asphalt Institute 1997), all other tests required... 

Several authors (Cutter, 2003 Davis, 2004 Schmid-tlein et al., 2008) and institutions (EMA, 2002 UNO, 2004) work in the social vulnerability field, evidencing its importance. Nevertheless, it is our contention that the existing methodologies to calculate social vulnerability do not take into accoimt the social resilience of individuals, groups and communities. In this article we present a social vulnerability index that integrates support capability and criticality of the territorial system, at a municipal and town scale. 

Heijmans, A. 2004. From Vulnerability to Empowerment in Mapping Vulnerability Disasters, Development People. London Sterling, VA Earthscan INE, 2001. Censos 2001. XIV Recenseamento Gera da Pop-uagdo. IV Recenseamento Gera da Habitagao, Lisboa Institute Nacional de Estatistica Manyena, S.B. 2006. The concept of resilience revisited . 

Franklin, S.. Downing, T. (2004). Resilience and Vulnerability, GECAFS Project, Stockholm Environment Institute. 

Rice J.B., 2003, Corporate Response to Terrorism Creating Resilient and Secure Supply Chains, Global and Homeland Security Science, Technology and the Role of the University MIT, Cambridge, MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

There is a similar recommendation in the Royal Academy s research agenda (2orr), which calls for institutional designs and leadership practices within the context of vulnerability and resilience. 

Nilchiani, R. and Mostashari, A. (2008). An introduction to resilience in port infrastructure systems. White Paper Series, Hoboken Stevens Institute of Technology. 

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